List of wars involving Mexico

This is a list of wars involving the United Mexican States.

Mexico has been involved in numerous different military conflicts over the years, with most being civil/internal wars.

Wars against Indigenous groups

• Mexican Indian Wars (1519–1933)
  • Yaqui Wars (1533–1929)
    • Yaqui Uprising (1896)
    • Yaqui Indian War (1899–1904?), one of the last of the long series of Mexican-Indian Wars, this conflict began when chiefs of the eight principal Yaqui Indian tribes demand Mexican withdrawal from the Sinaloa region.
  • Tepehuán Revolt (1616-1620), conflict between Tepehuán Indians and Spanish. This was is one of the Mexican Indian Wars.
  • Apache-Mexico Wars (Spain: 1600s–1821, Mexico: 1821–1915), raids and conflicts between Spanish Mexico and the Apaches, and Mexico and the Apaches. Part of the Mexican Indian Wars.
    • Victorio's War (1879–1880), part of the Apache–Mexico Wars and the long series of Mexican Indian Wars.
  • Comanche-Mexico Wars, part of the Mexican Indian Wars.

List

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821)	Mexico Mexican Insurgents European Volunteers Mexican Ex-Royalists Army of the Three Guarantees	Spain Spanish Royalists Mexican Royalists	Victory First Mexican Empire gains independence from Spain Signing of Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire
Long Expedition (1819)	First Mexican Empire Army of the Three Guarantees	American filibusters	Victory Rebels defeated and captured
Fredonian Rebellion (1826-1827)	Mexico	Texan-American rebels	Victory Texan rebels defeated Mexican government curtailed American immigration to Texas
Spanish reconquer attempt (1821–1829)	Mexico	Spain	Victory Spain recognizes the independence of the United States of Mexico in 1836
Comanche–Mexico Wars (1821–1870) Part of the Mexican Indian Wars	Mexico	Comanche Kiowa	Defeat
Era of Mexican Coups (1820s–1846)	Mexican Republic	Republic of Texas Republic of the Rio Grande Republic of Yucatán Republic of Zacatecas Republic of Jalisco Separatists in Tabasco	Victory (Except in the Texas Revolution) Several states openly rebelled against Santa Anna's Mexico: Coahuila y Tejas (the northern part of which would become the Republic of Texas), San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Yucatán, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas but were all suppressed. Several states formed their own governments, the Republic of the Rio Grande, the Republic of Yucatan (Twice) but were defeated by the Centralist Mexican Government. Only the Republic of Texas defeated Santa Anna and retained their independence.
Texas Revolution (1835–1836)	Mexico	Texas	Defeat Texan victory, Treaties of Velasco (1836) Creation of the Republic of Texas (1836) Mexican Invasions of Texas (1842) Annexation of Texas by the United States of America (1845); Outbreak of the Mexican–American War (1846–1848)
First Franco–Mexican War: Pastry War (1838–1839)	Mexico	France	Defeat Mexican government accepts to pay the 600,000 pesos
Mexican–American War (1846–1848)	Mexico	United States	Defeat Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mexican recognition of Texas (and the Mexican cession ) as U.S. territory; End of conflict between Mexico and Texas
Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901)	Mexico Yucatán	Maya	Victory Republic of Yucatán rejoins the United Mexican States in 1848 Mayas achieve an independent state from 1847–1883 Mexico recaptures Yucatán Conflict between the Mexicans and the Mayans continued until 1933
Reform War (1857–1861)	Mexico Mexican Liberals United States	Conservatives	Liberal Victory Benito Juárez rises power in Mexico The secular Constitution of 1857 was created
Cortina Troubles (1859–1861)	Cortinista militias Union (1861)	United States(prior to 1861) Confederate States	Defeat of Cortinista militia
Second Franco–Mexican War (1861–1867)	Mexico United States of America Republic of Peru	French Empire Mexican Empire Austrian Empire Belgium Egypt Eyalet Polish Revolutionaries	Victory Establishment, then fall, of the Second Mexican Empire French withdrawal Execution of Emperor Maximilian I, Miguel Miramon, and Tomas Mejia.
Garza Revolution (1891–1893)	Mexico United States	Garzistas	Victory Garza Revolution defeated
Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)	Counter-Revolutionaries Porfiristas Huertistas United States (Until 1918)	Revolutionaries Constitutional Army Villistas Zapatistas German Empire (Until 1918) United States (After 1918)	Constitutional Army Victory Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta ousted from power and exiled Mexican Constitution of 1917 enacted Defeat of rebellious Villa and Zapata by their Constitutionalists pairs Political assassination of presidents and revolutionary leaders Founding of the National Revolutionary Party to stop the political unrest.
Border War (1910–1919)	Mexican Carrancistas Germany	United States	Carransista Victory (American Victory on Villista rebels) Occupation of Veracruz American military is ordered to withdraw from Mexican territory after the defeat in the Battle of Carrizal Pancho Villa's troops no longer an effective fighting force General John J. Pershing acknowledges the failure of the American army to meet the objectives of their campaign Battles between Mexican and American forces ceased in 1919 after the joint American/Carranzista victory in the Battle of Ciudad Juárez over the Villistas Pancho Villa obtains pardon from the Mexican government.
Plan of San Diego raids (1915)	Mexican instigators Liberating Army of Races and Peoples	United States	Victory American recognition of Carranza as legitimate leader of Mexico Carrancistas halt raider support Carrancistas start a rebel raiders crackdown Increase of tension between Tejanos and Whites in American soil
Cristero War (1926–1929)	Mexican Government	Cristeros National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty Knights of Columbus	Government Ceasefire The Mexican Government makes peace agreement with Cristeros, assisted by the United States through U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow, in order to end violence Recognition of certain rights and the Catholic Church reopens in Mexico by 1929 during the presidency of Emilio Portes Gil, although some anti-clerical government laws remained in place until 1992, when the Mexican government amended the constitution by granting all religious groups legal status, conceding them limited property rights and lifting restrictions on the number of priests in the country
Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)	Spanish Republicans Foreign Volunteers Soviet Union Mexico	Spanish Nationalists Italy Germany Portugal	Defeat End of the Second Spanish Republic Beginning of Franco's rule
World War II (1942–1945)	Soviet Union United States United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Ethiopia	Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Finland Thailand Manchukuo Croatia Slovakia	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
Mexico–Guatemala conflict (1958–1959)	Mexico	Guatemala	Inconclusive Mexican retaliation halted by newly elected president Adolfo López Mateos. Diplomatic relations between the two nations are frozen for several months. South American meditation helps to prevent escalation
Dirty War (1968–1982)	Mexican Government United States	September 23 Communist League Party of the Poor Mexican Communist Party	Government Victory Continued rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party Legalization of left-wing parties
Zapatista Uprising (1994)	Mexico	EZLN	Ceasefire Government military victory EZLN political victory San Andrés Accords, granting autonomy to the indigenous peoples
Mexican War on Drugs (2006–present)	Mexico United States Colombia Irregular civilian vigilante paramilitaries	Mexican Drug Cartels	Ongoing 24 of the original 34 Zetas captured or killed. 34 of the 37 most-wanted Mexican drug lords captured or killed. World's most wanted drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera arrest, prison break. and re-capture.

See also

• List of ongoing political conflicts