List of wars involving Fiji

This is a list of wars involving the Fijian tribes (pre 1871), Kingdom of Fiji (1871–1874), Colony of Fiji (1874–1970), Dominion of Fiji (1970–1987) the Republic of Fiji (1987–present).

## Fijian tribes (pre 1871)

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Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Casualties

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First Fiji Expedition
(October 1855)  |  Fiji |  United States | Defeat |

Battle of Kaba
(1855)  |  Fiji
Tonga | Rewa Province
Bau | Victory |

Fiji: ? Tonga: 21 killed 20 wounded

Second Fiji Expedition
(6-16 October 1859)  | Fijians |  United States | Defeat |

14 killed

~36 wounded

115 huts destroyed

## Colony of Fiji (1874–1970)

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Bougainville Campaign
(1943-1944)  |  United States
Australia
New Zealand
Colony of Fiji |  Japan | Victory |

USA:

727 dead Australia:

516 dead

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Guadalcanal Campaign
(1942-1943)  |  United States
United Kingdom
• Solomon Islands[1]
• Fiji[2]
Australia
New Zealand
Tonga[3] |  Japan | Victory |

7,100 dead

7,789+ wounded 4 captured 29 ships lost

615 aircraft lost

Malayan Emergency
(1948-1960)  | Commonwealth forces:
United Kingdom

* Federation of Malaya
* Southern Rhodesia (until 1953)
* Rhodesia and Nyasaland (after 1953)
* Fiji

Australia
New Zealand
Supported by:
Thailand (Thai-Malaysian border)

| Communist forces:
Malayan Communist Party

* Malayan National Liberation Army

Supported by:
China[4][5][6]
Viet Minh (until 1954)
North Vietnam (from 1954)[7][8][9]
Soviet Union[6][10]
Indonesia[5][6]

| Victory |

Killed: 1,346 Malayan troops and police

519 British military personnel

Wounded: 2,406 Malayan and British troops/police

## Dominion of Fiji (1970–1987)

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First 1987 Fijian coup d'état[11]
(1987)  |  Fijian Government | Royal Fiji Military Forces  | Military Victory

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Second 1987 Fijian coup d'état[11]
(1987)  | Royal Fiji Military Forces  |  Fijian Government | Victory

## Republic of Fiji (1987–present)

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Bougainville Civil War
(1988-1989)  |  Bougainville Interim Government (BIG)

* Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA)

Supported by:
Solomon Islands
Fiji

|  Papua New Guinea

* Buka Liberation Front
* Bougainville Resistance Force

Supported by:
Australia

| *Bougainville Peace Agreement

* Establishment of the Autonomous Bougainville Government

1,000–2,000 fighters killed

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2000 Fijian coup d'état
(2000–2001)  |  Republic of Fiji

* *  Military Forces
* Police

| Hardline i-Taukei Rebels

* *  Fijian Army Mutineers

| Victory | 8 killed
2006 Fijian coup d'état
(2006)  | Republic of Fiji Military Forces | Fijian government  | Military Victory

* Josefa Iloilo is ousted by the Army
* Bainimarama took the presidential power and office

## References

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1. ^ Zimmerman documents the participation by native Solomon Islanders in the campaign at pp. 173–175.
2. ^ Jersey, pp. 356–358. Assisting the Americans in the latter stages of campaign were Fijiian commandos led by officers and non-commissioned officers from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
3. ^ Garamone, Jim (9 November 2010). "Mullen Thanks Tonga for Steadfast Support". U.S. Navy. Archived from the original on February 24, 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
4. ^ John W. Garver (1 December 2015). China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China. Oxford University Press. pp. 219–. ISBN 978-0-19-026106-1.
5. ^ a b A. Dahana (2002). "China Role's in Indonesia's "Crush Malaysia" Campaign". Universitas Indonesia. Archived from the original on 19 July 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
6. ^ a b c Mohd. Noor Mat Yazid (2013). "Malaysia-Indonesia Relations Before and After 1965: Impact on Bilateral and Regional Stability" (PDF). Programme of International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
7. ^ Ching Fatt Yong (1997). The origins of Malayan communism. South Seas Society. ISBN 978-9971-936-12-9.
8. ^ T. N. Harper; Timothy Norman Harper (9 April 2001). The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00465-7.
9. ^ Major James M. Kimbrough IV (6 November 2015). Disengaging From Insurgencies: Insights From History And Implications For Afghanistan. Pickle Partners Publishing. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-1-78625-345-3.
10. ^ Geoffrey Jukes (1 January 1973). The Soviet Union in Asia. University of California Press. pp. 302–. ISBN 978-0-520-02393-2.
11. ^ a b "The Literature of the 1987 Fiji Coup".

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