List of wars involving Venezuela

This is a list of wars involving the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its predecessor states from 1810 to the present.

War of Jenkins' Ear (War of the Austrian Succession):

Battle of La Guaira – 1743
Battle of Puerto Cabello – 1743

Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808): Cutting out of the Hermione – 1799

War of 1812 (Sixty Years' War): Battle of La Guaira (1812)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	Notable battles
Venezuelan War of Independence (1810–1823) Detail of The Battle of Carabobo (1887) by Martín Tovar y Tovar	Venezuela New Granada Gran Colombia	Spain	Victory Independence of Venezuela Formation of Gran Colombia	Battle of La Victoria (1812) Battle of Alto de los Godos – 1813 Battle of Niquitao – 1813 – Admirable Campaign Battle of Los Horcones – 1813 – Admirable Campaign Battle of Taguanes – 1813 – Admirable Campaign Battle of Araure – 1813 Battle of La Victoria – 1814 Battle of San Mateo – 1814 Battle of Carabobo (1814) Battle of Urica – 1814 Battle of San Félix – 1817 Battle of Matasiete – 1817 Battle of Las Queseras del Medio – 1819 Battle of Carabobo – 1821 Battle of Lake Maracaibo – 1823
Spanish Reconquest of New Granada (1815–1816)	New Granada Venezuela	Spain	Defeat
Liberation Campaign of New Granada (1819–1820)	New Granada Venezuela	Spain	Victory
Ecuadorian War of Independence (1820–1822)	Guayaquil Gran Colombia Chile Peru Río de la Plata	Spain	Victory Incorporation of the Real Audiencia of Quito into Gran Colombia
Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828–1829)	Gran Colombia	Peru	Stalemate Status quo ante bellum
Federal War (1859–1863) Combat of Maiquetía, during the beginning of the Federal War, 2 September 1859	Conservative Government	Federalists	Federalist victory Establishment of a Federalist government	Battle of Santa Inés – 1859 Battle of Coplé – 1860 Battle of Buchivacoa – 1862
Venezuelan Crisis of 1902–1903 (1902–1903) A cover of the "Le Petit Parisien" depicting the bombardment of Castle San Carlos	Venezuela	United Kingdom Germany Italy	Compromise Venezuelan military victory
Dutch–Venezuelan Crisis of 1908 (1908) HNLMS Gelderland, the Dutch cruiser that successfully captured two Venezuelan gunboats in Venezuelan territorial waters	Venezuela	Netherlands	Defeat HNLMS Gelderland captures Venezuelan gunboats Alexis and 23 de Mayo Dutch blockade of Venezuela's coast
World War II (Unofficial: 1942–1945; officially in 1945)^[1] Venezuelan gunboat General Urdaneta, which assisted in rescuing the crews of several torpedoed vessels during Operation Neuland	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 Chile Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Venezuela Uruguay Argentina	Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang	Victory Collapse of the German 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
Machurucuto Incident (1967)	Venezuela	Venezuelan rebels Cuba	Victory Cuban expedition fails.

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^ Venezuelan waters were one of the scenarios of the Battle of the Caribbean. Formally declared war on the Axis powers in February 1945.

[1] Venezuelan waters were one of the scenarios of the Battle of the Caribbean. Formally declared war on the Axis powers in February 1945.

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v t e Lists of wars involving South American countries
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

v t e Years in Venezuela
19th century	Pre-1800 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
20th century	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
21st century	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

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