List of wars involving Costa Rica

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Costa Rica.

Costa Rican military victory
Costa Rican military defeat
Indecisive or unclear outcome
Ongoing conflict
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results

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Ochomogo War
(1823)  |  Republicans |  Imperialists | Republican victory

* The First Mexican Empire was already dissolved at the time, Republicans moved the capital from Cartago to San José.

League War
(1835)  |  San José |  Alajuela
Cartago
Heredia | San Jose's victory
Filibuster War
(1855-1857)  |  Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Mosquito Coast
Guatemala
Honduras
El Salvador
United States |  Filibusters | Victory

* William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the American Navy

Barrios' War of Reunification
(1885)  |  El Salvador
Mexico
Costa Rica
Nicaragua |  Guatemala
Honduras | Victory

* Withdrawal of Guatemalan soldiers
* Death of Justo Rufino Barrios

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

Coto War
(1921)  |  Costa Rica |  Panama | Victory

* Panama ceded Coto to Costa Rica[1]

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

Costa Rican Civil War
(1948)  |  Costa Rica
Calderón Forces
People's Vanguard Party
Somoza Forces |  National Liberation Movement
Ulatistas | Regime change

* Teodoro Picado Michalski toppled

Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica
(1955)  |  Costa Rica |  Calderón Forces
Nicaragua | Victory

* Nicaraguan withdrawal from Costa Rica

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

## References[edit]

1. ^ Tomán, René De La Pedraja. Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941, p. 100. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &, 2006.

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Armed conflicts involving Costa Rica

listed chronologically

* Ochomogo War (1823)
* League War (1835)
* Filibuster War (1855–1857)
* Barrios' War of Reunification (1885)
* World War I (1918)
* Anti-Tinoquista rebellion (1919)
* Coto War (1921)
* World War II (1941–1945)
* Costa Rican Civil War (1948)
* Nicaraguan invasion attempt (1955)
* Dominican Civil War (1965–1966)

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* Jamaica
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* United States

Dependencies and
other territories

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
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* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Greenland
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Puerto Rico
* Saint Barthélemy
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* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* Saba
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