List of wars involving El Salvador

Summary

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of El Salvador.

1800s edit

Conflict Allies Opponents Results
First Central American Civil War

(1827-1829)

Victory
War of 1832

(1832)

  El Salvador   Honduras

  Nicaragua

Defeat
Guatemalan invasion of El Salvador

(1838)

  El Salvador   Guatemala Victory
  • withdrawal of Guatemala from Salvadoran territory
  • Counter-offensive failed
Allied invasion of El Salvador

(1839)

  El Salvador   Honduras

  Guatemala
  Nicaragua

Victory
  • withdrawal of Allied troops from El Salvador
  • Counter-offensive failed
War of Malespín

(1844)

  El Salvador

  Honduras

  Nicaragua Victory
War with Guatemala of 1844

(1844)

  El Salvador   Guatemala Victory
First Salvadoran-Honduran War of 1845   El Salvador   Honduras Status Quo Ante Bellum
Gerardo Barrios' expedition to Honduras (1850)   El Salvador   Honduras Victory

•Guardiola surrenders

War against Guatemala of 1851   El Salvador

  Honduras

  Guatemala Defeat
Guatemalan raid on El Salvador in 1852   El Salvador   Guatemala Victory

•Recovery of some stolen items

Filibuster War
(1856–1857)
  Costa Rica
  Nicaragua
  Mosquitia
  Guatemala
  Honduras
  El Salvador
  United States
  United Kingdom (naval support)
  Filibusters Victory
  • William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the American Navy
War of 1863
(1863)
  El Salvador
  Honduras
  Guatemala
  Salvadoran Deserters
Defeat
Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1871

(1871)

  El Salvador   Honduras Defeat

Francisco Dueñas is overthrown •Santiago González becomes president

First Guatemalan-Salvadoran Intervention in Honduras

(1872)

  El Salvador

  Guatemala

  Honduras Victory
second Guatemalan-Salvadoran intervention in Honduras

(1873)

  El Salvador

  Guatemala

  Honduras Victory
Guatemalan Salvadoran War of 1876

(1876)

  El Salvador   Guatemala Defeat
Barrios' War of Reunification
(1885)
  El Salvador
  Mexico
  Costa Rica
  Nicaragua
  Guatemala
  Honduras
Victory
First Totoposte War
(1890)
  El Salvador   Guatemala
  Salvadoran Exiles
Victory
Revolution of the 44
(1894)
  Salvadoran government   Anti-government rebels Rebel victory

1900s edit

Conflict Allies Opponents Results
Second Totoposte War
(1903)
  El Salvador
  Mexico
  Guatemalan Exiles
  Guatemala Stalemate
Third Totoposte War
(1906)
  El Salvador
  Mexico
  Guatemalan Exiles
  Guatemala Stalemate
War of 1907
(1907)
  El Salvador   Nicaragua
  Salvadoran Exiles
  American Filibusters
  Honduras
Victory
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
  Chile
  Panama
  Costa Rica
  El Salvador
  Guatemala
  Honduras
  Nicaragua
  Dominican Republic
  Cuba
  Germany
  Japan
  Italy
  Hungary
  Romania
  Bulgaria
  Croatia
  Slovakia
  Finland
  Thailand
  Manchukuo
  Mengjiang
Victory
Dominican Civil War
(1965–1966)
  Dominican Loyalists
  United States
  Brazil
  Paraguay
  Honduras
  Nicaragua
  Costa Rica
  El Salvador
  Dominican Constitutionalists Victory
Football War
(1969)
  El Salvador   Honduras Ceasefire
Salvadoran Civil War
(1979–1992)
  El Salvador   FMLN Ceasefire
  • Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992
  • Restructuring of Salvadoran Armed Forces
  • National and Treasury Police are dissolved (new civilian-overseen police created)
  • FMLN becomes a political party, its combatants are exonerated

2000s-present edit

Conflict Allies Opponents Results
Iraq War
(2003–2009)
  Iraq
  United States
  United Kingdom
  South Korea
  Italy
  Poland
  Australia
  New Zealand
  Georgia
  Ukraine
  Netherlands
  Romania
  Japan
  Denmark
  Spain
  El Salvador
  Honduras
  Nicaragua
  Dominican Republic
  Baath Loyalists
  ISI
  al-Qaeda in Iraq
  Mahdi Army
  Special Groups
  IAI
  Ansar al-Sunnah

  Ba'athist Iraq

Victory
Afghanistan War
(2011–2014)
  Afghanistan
  United States
  United Kingdom
  Canada
  Australia
  New Zealand
  Germany
  Italy
  France
  Denmark
  Georgia
  Poland
  Romania
  Turkey
  Bulgaria
  Romania
  Spain
  El Salvador

  Northern Alliance

  Taliban
  al-Qaeda
  Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
  HI-Gulbuddin
  Hezb-e Islami Khalis
  Haqqani network
  Lashkar-e-Taiba
  Jaish-e-Mohammed
  East Turkestan Islamic Movement
  Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
  Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
  Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
  Islamic Jihad Union
Taliban victory

References edit

  1. ^ "U.S. Troops in Afghanistan now down to 2,500, lowest since 2001: Pentagon". Reuters. January 15, 2021.
  2. ^ "Remarks by President Biden on Afghanistan". The White House. 16 August 2021.
  3. ^ Gibbons-Neff, Thomas; Katzenberg, Lauren (2021-08-30). "The U.S. military finishes its evacuation, and an era ends in Afghanistan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  4. ^ Lou, Mary (2022-01-01). "Taliban a 'major U.S. arms dealer' after weaponry left behind in Afghanistan, watchdog warns". Just The News.