List of wars involving El Salvador

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

1800s

Key
  Salvadoran victory
  Salvadoran defeat
  Ceasefire or other result
Conflict Allies Opponents Results
1811 Independence Movement
(1811)
Salvadoran revolutionaries

Spain Spanish Empire

Revolt suppressed
1814 Independence Movement
(1814)
  • Salvadoran rebels
Defeat
Mexican annexation of El Salvador
(1822–1823)
Initial defeat, subsequent victory
First Central American Civil War
(1827–1829)

Protective Allied Army of the Law
Honduras
El Salvador

Federal Government
Guatemala

Protective Allied Army of the Law victory
Salvadoran campaign of 1832
(1832)

El Salvador

Federal Republic of Central America Federal victory
Anastasio Aquino's rebellion
(1833)

Federal Republic of Central America

Indigenous rebels

Rebellion suppressed
Second Central American Civil War
(1838–1840)

Unionists

Separatists

Separatist victory
Malespín's War
(1844–1845)
Allied victory[1][2]
Honduran–Salvadoran War
(1845)

El Salvador

Honduras

Status Quo Ante Bellum[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Filibuster War
(1855–1857)
Central American alliance victory
War of 1863
(1863)
Guatemalan victory
Honduran–Salvadoran War
(1871)

El Salvador
Honduras Honduran rebels

Honduras
El Salvador Salvadoran rebels

Honduran victory[9]
First Honduran intervention
(1872)

El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras Honduran rebels

Honduras

Allied victory[10]
Second Honduran intervention
(1873)
Victory
Barrios' War of Reunification
(1885)
Anti-Barrios victory
First Totoposte War
(1890)
  • First Totoposte War
  • Guatemala
  • Salvadoran exiles
Status quo ante bellum
Revolution of the 44
(1894)

Salvadoran government

Rebel victory

1900s

Key
  Salvadoran victory
  Salvadoran defeat
  Ceasefire or other result
Conflict Allies Opponents Results
Second Totoposte War
(1903)
Status quo ante bellum
Third Totoposte War
(1906)
Status quo ante bellum
War of 1907
(1907)

El Salvador

Salvadoran military victory
La Matanza
(1932)
  • Peasant rebels
Revolt suppressed
World War II
(1941–1945)
Allies
Axis
Allies
Dominican Civil War
(1965)
Loyalist faction
United States

Constitutionalist faction

Loyalist victory
  • Ceasefire declared
  • Formation of the provisional government for new elections
  • Deposition of Juan Bosch of the presidency ratified
  • Organization of presidential elections in 1966 under international supervision
  • Election of Joaquín Balaguer as the new president
  • Establishment of the Fourth Dominican Republic on July 1, 1966
Football War
(1969)
Ceasefire by OAS intervention
Salvadoran Civil War
(1979[a]–1992)
Chapultepec Peace Accords

2000s-present

  Salvadoran victory
  Salvadoran defeat
  Ceasefire or other result
  Ongoing conflict
Conflict Allies Opponents Results
Iraq War
(2003–2009)
Invasion (2003)
Coalition of the willing Kurdistan Region Kurdistan Region Iraqi National Congress

After invasion (2003–11)
 Iraq
 United States
 United Kingdom
MNF–I (2003–09)

 Kurdistan Region
Awakening Council

Invasion (2003)
Ba'athist Iraq Republic of Iraq


After invasion (2003–11)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Islamic Army in Iraq
Islamic State of Iraq
Mahdi Army
Ba'athist Iraq Naqshbandi Army
Hamas of Iraq
Jaysh al-Mujahideen
1920 Revolution Brigades
Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna

Victory
Afghanistan War
(2011–2014)

Defeat
Salvadoran gang crackdown
(2022–present)

Salvadoran government

Criminal gangs

Ongoing

Notes

  1. ^ Three dates that are often cited as the start date of the Salvadoran Civil War: 15 October 1979 when the 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état occurred,[12]: 262 [13]: 155 [14]: 206 [15]: 4 [16]: 40  sometime during 1980,[17]: 221 & 223 [18]: 688 [19]: 781 [20]: 211  and 10 January 1981 when the final offensive of 1981 began.[21]: 242 [22]: 31 

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