List of wars involving Nicaragua

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Nicaragua.

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	Head of State
Nicaraguan Independence Movements (1811–1812)	Nicaraguan revolutionaries	Spanish Empire	Defeat Revolts suppressed	José de Salvador y Antoli
Civil war of 1824 (1824)	Fiebres	Timbucos	Fiebres victory José Anacleto Ordóñez is given the position of "Inspector General of Arms of the Federal Republic of Central America"	José Anacleto Ordóñez
Cerda-Argüello War (1827–1828)	Liberal Federalists	Conservative Federalists	Liberal victory Execution of Manuel Antonio de la Cerda	Juan Argüello del Castillo
Flores' Rebellion (1834)	Nicaraguan Government	Anti-Constitutionalist Rebels	Government victory Cándido Flores is defeated in Managua and later flees Granada	José Núñez
Invasion of Guanacaste (1836)	Nicaragua Costa Ricans exiled	Costa Rica	Defeat Withdrawal of Nicaraguan forces	Manuel Quijano
Malespín's War (1844–1845)	Nicaragua	El Salvador Honduras	Defeat León is looted and massacred Execution of Emiliano Madriz	Emiliano Madriz Blas Antonio Sáenz Silvestre Selva
Recapture of San Juan del Norte (1848)	Nicaragua	United Kingdom Kingdom of Mosquitia	Defeat Nicaragua returned San Juan del Norte to Mosquitia.	José María Guerrero
Granada-León Civil War (1853–1855)	Legitimists	Democrats	Stalemate Francisco Castellón hires William Walker and his mercenaries The war continues as the Filibuster War	Fruto Chamorro Francisco Castellón
Filibuster War (1855–1857)	Nicaragua Legitimists Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras El Salvador United States	Filibusters Democrats	Legitimist victory William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the US Navy	Fruto Chamorro William Walker
Barrios' War of Reunification (1885)	El Salvador Mexico Costa Rica Nicaragua	Guatemala Honduras	Victory Withdrawal of Guatemalan soldiers Death of Justo Rufino Barrios	Adán Cárdenas
Nicaragua Crisis of 1895 (1894–1895)	Nicaragua	United Kingdom	Victory Establishment of the Zelaya Department	José Santos Zelaya
Honduran Civil War (1906–1907)	Liberal Rebels Nicaragua	Honduras El Salvador	Victory Dávila becomes President of Honduras
Estrada's Rebellion (1909–1910)	Liberal Government	Conservative Rebels United States	Regime change Estrada recognized as President of Nicaragua
Mena's Rebellion (1912)	Conservative Government United States	Liberal Rebels	Government victory Liberal rebels exiled to Panama	Adolfo Díaz
World War I (1918)	France United Kingdom Russia United States Italy Japan China Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Serbia Montenegro Romania Belgium Greece Portugal Brazil Cuba Panama Guatemala Nicaragua Costa Rica Honduras	Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria	Victory End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations	Emiliano Chamorro Vargas
Constitutionalist War (1926–1927)	Conservative Government United States	Liberal Rebels	Government victory Pact of Espino Negro, election of 1928 held
Sandinistas War (1927–1933)	Conservative Government United States	Sandinistas	Government victory Sandinistas surrender their weapons	Adolfo Díaz
World War II (1941–1945)	United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Panama Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic Cuba	Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang	Victory Collapse of the Third Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War	Anastasio Somoza García
Costa Rican Civil War (1948)	Costa Rica Calderón Forces People's Vanguard Party Nicaragua	National Liberation Movement Ulatistas	Defeat Teodoro Picado Michalski toppled, José Figueres Ferrer becomes President of Costa Rica	Víctor Manuel Román
Invasion of Costa Rica (1955)	Calderón Forces Nicaragua	Costa Rica	Defeat Nicaraguan withdrawal from Costa Rica	Anastasio Somoza García
Dominican Civil War (1965–1966)	Dominican Loyalists United States Brazil Paraguay Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador	Dominican Constitutionalists	Victory Juan Bosch excluded from Presidency, election of Joaquín Balaguer	René Schick
Nicaraguan Revolution (1972–1990)	Somoza Government Contras	FSLN	Regime change Overthrow of Somoza government	Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Miskito Conflict (1982–1987)	Nicaragua	Miskito Guerrillas	Victory Guerillas defeated	Daniel Ortega
Operation Golden Pheasant (1988)	Nicaragua	United States Honduras	Defeat Withdrawal of Nicaraguan forces from Honduran territory
Iraq War (2003–2004)	Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan MNF–I United States United Kingdom South Korea Italy Poland Australia Georgia Ukraine Netherlands Romania Bulgaria Denmark Thailand Spain El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic	SCJL Naqshbandi Army ISI al-Qaeda FIA Ansar al-Islam IAI Mahdi Army Special Groups Badr Brigades Kata'ib Hezbollah	Victory Depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security Re-establishment of democratic elections U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement	Enrique Bolaños