List of wars involving Argentina

This is a list of armed conflicts involving the Argentine Republic from the colonial period to present day:

•   Argentine victory: in case of an international victory or just a bellic victory/inconclusive conflict with favorable ending.
•   Argentine defeat: in the case of an international bellic defeat.
•   Indecisive or inconclusive: in the case of an international conflict, but with an unclear or left to interpretation result.
•   Internal confrontation: in the case of an Argentine internal conflict, whatever the winning faction. This doesn't applies if the rebel faction is part of another country's troops.

Colonial Argentina (1549-1810)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
First Calchaquí War (1560-1563)	Spanish Empire Tucuman Governorate	Diaguita Confederation	Victory Conquest of the Diaguita people.
Revolution of the Seven Chiefs (1580)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata and Paraguay Governorate	Rebel criollos	Government victory Revolution crushed.
Viltipoco Rebellion (1582)	Spanish Empire Tucuman Governorate	Diaguita Confederation	Victory Rebellion crushed.
English invasion of Martín García (1582)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata and Paraguay Governorate	Kingdom of England	Victory The island Mantín García remains in Spanish control.
English invasion of Buenos Aires (1587)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata and Paraguay Governorate	Kingdom of England	Victory Invasion failed.
Second Calchaquí War (1630-1637)	Spanish Empire Tucuman Governorate	Diaguita Confederation	Victory Revolution crushed.
French invasion of Buenos Aires (1658)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Kingdom of France	Victory Invasion failed.
Second French invasion of Buenos Aires (1658)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Kingdom of France	Victory Invasion failed.
Third Calchaquí War (1658-1667)	Spanish Empire Tucuman Governorate	Diaguita Confederation	Victory End of the diaguita revolutions.
First occupation of Sacramento Colony (1680)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Portuguese Empire Colonial Brazil	Victory Spanish bellical victory. Sacramento is given back to Portugal.
Danish Pirate invasion of Buenos Aires (1699)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Danish Pirates	Victory Invasion failed.
Battle of the Yi (1702)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate Guaraní tribes	Charrúa tribes	Victory The charrúas surrender. 300 charrúas killed during the negotiations.
French invasion of Castillos (~1700)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Kingdom of France	Victory Invasion failed.
Second occupation of Sacramento Colony (1705)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Portuguese Empire Colonial Brazil	Victory Spanish bellical victory. Sacramento is given back to Portugal.
Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–1737)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Portuguese Empire Colonial Brazil	Defeat Failure at invading Sacramento Colony.
Guaraní War (1756)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate Portuguese Empire Colonial Brazil	Guaraní tribes	Victory
First Ceballos expedition (1762-1763)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Portuguese Empire Colonial Brazil Kingdom of Great Britain British East India	Victory Spanish bellical victory Sacramento Colony temporaly occupied by Spain Rio Grande temporarily occupied by Spain. The occupied territories are given back to Portugal.
Capture of Port Egmont (1770)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Kingdom of Great Britain	Victory The Falklands are annexed to Spain as Malvinas.
Second Ceballos expedition (1776-1777)	Spanish Empire Río de la Plata Governorate	Portuguese Empire Colonial Brazil	Victory Sacramento Colony occupied and annexed to Spain. Santa Catarina temporaly occupied by Spain. Spain annexation of southern Brazilian territory. Spanish annexation of Equatorial Guinea.
British invasions of the Río de la Plata (1806-1807)	Spanish Empire Buenos Aires Intendency Montevideo Government	United Kingdom Cape Colony	Victory Failure of both invasions.

United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (1810–1831)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Spanish American wars of independence (1810–1833) Argentine participation on: Bolivian war of independence. Argentine war of independence. Chilean war of independence. Peruvian war of independence. Battle of Monterey (1818). Ecuadorian war of independence.	Independentists:[Note 1] United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Gran Colombia Chile Mexico Peru Bolivia Paraguay Native Americans pro-independent	Royalist: Spanish Monarchy Spain Spanish America Native Americans pro-realistic	Independentist victory Formation of the new Hispanic American states. Subsequently, Spain recognizes each of the new Hispanic American states through the signing of international treaties.
Argentine War of Independence (1810-1825)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata	Spain Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata	Victory Argentine independence. The intendencies of Cordoba, Salta and Buenos Aires, as well as the government of Montevideo and part of one of the Misiones government are annexed into the United Provinces.
Bolivian War of Independence (1809-1825)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (1810-1825) Bolivian republiquetas	Spain Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata Viceroyalty of Peru	Victory Bolivian independence. Due to the death of Martín Miguel de Güemes the bolivian and argentine independentists followed different paths.
Invasion of the Banda Oriental (1811–1812)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata	Portuguese Empire Colonial Brazil	Bellic victory Argentine bellic victory Withdrawal of Portuguese troops from Banda Oriental. The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata continue their invasion of the Banda Oriental.
Peruvian War of Independence (1811-1826)	Peru Liberating Expedition of Peru (1820-1824) United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Protectorate of Peru Chile Gran Colombia (1824-1826)	Spain Viceroyalty of Peru	Victory Peruvian independence.
Chilean War of Independence (1812-1816)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Patria Vieja	Spain Captaincy General of Chile	Victory Chilean independence.
First Argentine Civil War (1814-1820)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Buenos Aires Tucuman Salta Cuyo La Rioja Entre Ríos Republic	League of the Free Peoples Banda Oriental Entre Ríos Corrientes Santa Fe Misiones Occidentales Córdoba	Directory (United Provinces) victory End of the Federal League. Anarchy of the 20's. La Rioja separates from Cordoba. Creation of the Entre Rios Republic and Tucuman Republic. Separation of Cuyo into Mendoza, San Luis and San Juan. The League of the Free Peoples was a country on its own, so their conflicts with Portugal will not be counted on this page.
Battle of Pitambalá (1816)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata	Santiago del Estero	Victory Revolution crushed.
La Argentina Expedition (1817-1819)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata	Slave ships from Madagascar Malayan pirates Joló natives Philippines Captaincy Mutineers New Spain Chilean corsairs	Victory Central american independentists created their flags based on the argentine flag. The United Provinces gained international recognition outside of South America. Spanish trade damaged. Bouchard was judged on Chile because of "piracy", but won said judgement.
Battle of Monterey (1818)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata	Spain New Spain	Victory Monterey is occupied by Bouchard.
Martin Rodriguez Campaign (1820-1824)	United Provinces	Wallmapu	Victory Territorial expansion
Ecuadorian War of Independence (1820-1822)	Guayaquil  Gran Colombia United Provinces  Chile Peru	Spain Real Audiencia of Quito	Victory Incorporation of Guayaquil into Gran Colombia.
Conflicts against Ramirez (1820-1821)	Buenos Aires Santa Fe	Entre Ríos Republic	Buenos Aires and Santa Fe's victory The Entre Rios Republic separates into the provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes.
Battle of Rincón de Marlopa (1821)	Tucuman Republic	Salta Province Santiago del Estero rebels	Tucuman's victory Tucuman's bellic victory. Santiago del Estero separates from Tucuman as a new province. Reason of the separation of Catamarca from Tucuman and end of the Tucuman Republic (which despite the name wasn't a country).
Brazil War (1825–1828)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Thirty-Three Orientals	Brazilian Empire European mercenaries	Argentine bellic victory Peace Agreement, terms favorable to Brazil in relation to the territory of the eastern missions. Independence of Uruguay. Argentine bellic victory.
Second Argentine Civil War (1826-1827)	Unitarian government Buenos Aires Tucumán Salta Catamarca	Federal provinces La Rioja Córdoba Santiago del Estero	Federal victory Bernandino Rivadavia resigns. Manuel Dorrego becames the new president.
Federico Rauch Campaign (1826-1827)	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata	Wallmapu	Victory
Brigandage of the Pincheira brothers (1827–1832)	Chile United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (until 1831) Argentine Confederation (from 1831 to 1832) Wallmapu allies	Montoneras of Pincheira Wallmapu pro-Pincheira	Victory End of the montoneras of Pincheira. Argentine campaign on the Desert (1833–34).
Third Argentine Civil War (1828-1831)	Interior League Mendoza San Luis San Juan Salta Tucumán Santiago del Estero Córdoba Catamarca La Rioja	Litoral League Buenos Aires Entre Rios Corrientes Santa Fe	Concecuences: Fall of Manuel Dorrego. Rise and fall of Juan Lavalle. Rise of Juan Manuel de Rosas. End of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. Start of the Argentine Confederation.

Argentine Confederation (1831–1861)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Falklands Expedition (1831-1832)	Argentine Confederation	United States	Victory Argentina and the United States break diplomatic relations a possible expansion of the United States into South America was avoided Weakening of the Argentine settlement on the islands British occupation in 1833
Desert Campaign (1833-1834)	Argentine Confederation Tehuelche tribes	Mapuche tribes	Victory Argentine territorial expansion.
Battle of Castañares (1834)	Jujuy rebels	Salta Province	Jujuy's victory Jujuy separates from Salta as a new province.
Argañaraz y Maza Campaign (1834-1835)	Argentine Confederation	Wallmapu	Victory
Masalle Massacre and Railef's Malón (1836)	Argentine Confederation Wallmapu allies	Wallmapu	Victory
War of the Confederation (1836–1839)	Argentine Confederation Chile Peruvian dissidents Peruvian exiles (1836–1837) Government of La Fuente (1837) Peruvian exiles (1837–1838) Government of Gamarra (1838–1839)	Peru-Bolivian Confederation	Victory Chile and the Peruvian dissidents defeat the Peru-Bolivian Confederation. Argentine territorial integrity secured.
Argentine-Bolivian war (1837-1839)	Argentine Confederation	Bolivia	Victory Bellic victory. Argentine territorial integrity secured. Abandonment of the bolivian pretentions of annexing the argentine nortern provinces.
French blockade of the Río de la Plata (1838-1840)	Argentine Confederation	France Exiled Argentines	Victory France leaves the island Martín García.
Fourth Argentine Civil War (1840-1841)	Argentine Confederation Buenos Aires Entre Rios Santa Fe Mendoza San Luis San Juan Santiago del Estero Córdoba Blancos Party	Unitarians Jujuy Salta Tucumán Catamarca La Rioja Corrientes	Government victory Death of Juan Lavalle
Uruguayan Civil War (guerra grande) (1839-1852) Includes: French blockade of the Río de la Plata. Fourth Correntine revolution. Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata. Argentine intervention on Uruguay. Costa Brava combat. USS Congress incident. Platine War.	Argentine Confederation Blancos Party	Colorado Party France Entre Rios Province Corrientes Province Santa Fe Province Exiled Argentines Spanish Mercenaries Riograndense Republic Redshirts (Italy)  British Empire Empire of Brazil	Coalition Victory Overthrow of Juan Manuel de Rosas. Unitarian Party victory in Argentina. Colorado Party victory in Uruguay.
Argentine intervention on Uruguay (1839-1843)	Argentine Confederation Blancos Party	Uruguay Colorado Party	Victory Siege and naval blockade of Montevideo.
Costa Brava Combat (1842)	Argentine Confederation	Redshirts (Italy)	Victory Giuseppe Garibaldi scapes to Montevideo.
Fourth Correntine Revolution (1843-1847)	Argentine Confederation	Corrientes Province	Government victory Revolution crushed.
USS Congress Incident (1844)	Argentine Confederation	United States	Concecuences: American withdrawal from the Río de la Plata.
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata (1845-1850)	Argentine Confederation	France  United Kingdom	Victory France and Britain recognize the sovereignty of Argentina on River Plate and its tributaries
Platine War (Fifth Argentine Civil War) (1851–1852)	Buenos Aires Province Blanco Party	Entre Rios Province Corrientes Province Santa Fe Province Support: Unitarian troops Brazilian troops Uruguayan troops	Coalition Victory Victory of the coalition army of General Justo Jose de Urquiza Argentine clout over the Platine region ends[1] Brazilian hegemony in the Platine region
Sixth Argentine Civil War (1852-1862)	Argentine Confederation	State of Buenos Aires	Concecuences: Argentine unification.
Campaigns against Calfucurá (1855-1872)	State of Buenos Aires Argentine Confederation (both until 1861) Argentina (1861-1872)	Wallmapu	Victory Calfulcurá is defeated and dies one year after that.

Argentine Republic (1861–present)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Uruguayan war (1864-1865)	Empire of Brazil Argentina Uruguayan colorados	Uruguay	Victory The colorados take over the Uruguayan government. Start of the Paraguayan War.
Paraguayan War (1865–1870)	Empire of Brazil  Argentina  Uruguay	Paraguay	Victory Allied occupation of Paraguay. Argentina gains the Misiones province and Paraguay stops claiming the Argentine chaco.
Revolution of the Colorados (Seventh Argentine Civil War) (1866-1867)	Argentina	Federals Mendoza San Luis San Juan La Rioja Salta	Government Victory
Jordanist Rebellion (Eighth Argentine Civil War) (1870)	Argentina	Federals Entre Rios Province	Government victory Death of Justo José de Urquiza . Defeat of Ricardo López Jordán . End of the federalist rebellions
Conquest of the Chaco (1870–1917)	Argentina Abipones tribes	Guaycuru tribes Wichí Toba Pilagá Mocoví	Victory Annexation of a big part of the Gran Chaco.
Conflicts between liberals and autonomists (Ninth Argentine Civil War) (1874-1880)	Liberal party	National Autonomist party	Autonomist victory Autonomist party's rule of the country through 40 years.
Conquest of the Desert (1878–1884)	Argentina Allied tribes	Mapuche and Pampas tribes  Chile (battle of alumine)	Victory Annexation of the eastern Patagonia. Chile would stop claiming the eastern part of Patagonia. Emergence of the military and political influence of Argentina in South America.
Revolution of 1880 (Tenth Argentine Civil War) (1880)	Argentina	Buenos Aires province	Government victory Federalization of Buenos Aires. End of the argentine civil wars.
Argentine invasion of the Puna de Atacama (1885-1886)	Argentina	Bolivia	Victory Annexation of most of the Puna de Atacama in 1888
Selk'nam Genocide (1880-1910)	Argentina  Chile Bounty hunters	Selk'nam tribes	Victory 3900 selk'nams killed. Only around 900 of the deaths were direct. Extinction in 1974 due to the death of the last pure selk'nam.
Revolution of the Park (1890)	Argentina	Civic Union	Government victory President Miguel Juárez Celman resigns, vice-president Carlos Pellegrini assumes the presidency. Revolution crushed by the government.
Revolution of 1893 (1893)	Argentina	Radical Civic Union	Government victory Revolution crushed by the government.
Russian-Japanese War (1901)	Japan Support: Argentina	Russia	Japanese victory Russia withdraws from Manchuria Improvement of relations between Argentina and Japan
Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903	Venezuela Support: Argentina  United States	United Kingdom Germany Italy Support: Spain Mexico  Belgium  Netherlands  Denmark	Compromise Venezuelan debt dispute resolved European fleet withdraws Argentina's Drago Doctrine becomes famous internationally.
Revolution of 1905 (1905)	Argentina	Radical Civic Union	Government victory Sáenz Peña law sanctioned in 1912, which allowed secret, universal and mandatory suffrage. Revolution crushed by the government.
War of Chile Chico (1918)	Argentina Carabineros de Chile	Chilean settlers	Victory incarceration of Chileans settlers they released the settlers a month later they returned to Chile
Tragic Week (1919)	Argentina Argentine Patriotic League	Anarchists and communists	Government victory Rebellion crushed
Patagonia Rebelde (1920-1922)	Argentina Argentine Patriotic League	Anarchists and communists	Government victory Rebellion crushed
Chaco War (1932-1935)	Paraguay Support: Argentina  Italy  United States	Bolivia Support:  Czechoslovakia  United Kingdom	Paraguay victory Paraguay gets most of the disputed zone with Bolivia.
Revolution of 1932 (1932)	Argentina	Radical Civic Union	Government victory Revolution crushed by the government.
Paraguayan Civil War (1947)	Paraguay Colorado party Support: Argentina  United States	Liberal Party Febrerista Revolutionary Party Paraguayan Communist Party	Paraguayan government victory Guerrillas defeated.
Revolución Libertadora (1955-1958)	Government of Argentina Nationalist Liberation Alliance Loyal Armed Forces	Rebel Armed Forces Civil Commands	Rebel victory Argentine military seizes power. Overthrow of Juan Domingo Perón.
Cuban Missile Crisis (quarantine operation) (1962)	United States OAS  Argentina  Venezuela Colombia  Trinidad and Tobago  Dominican Republic	Soviet Union  Cuba	Concecuences: Expulsion of Cuba from the OAS. Naval blockade of Cuba towards the USSR.
1963 Argentine Navy revolt (1962–1963)	Azules: Argentine Army Argentine Air Force	Colorados: Argentine Navy	Azules victory Colorados revolt suppressed
Laguna del Desierto Incident (1965)	Argentina	Chile	Victory Argentina gets the disputed zone.
[Far-leftist insurgency in Argentina] (1970-1979) See also: Operativo Independencia	Argentina Triple A (AAA)	ERP Montoneros FAR FAP FAL Uturuncos	Government victory Leftist guerrillas defeated mostly eradicated by 1977. 9,500+ guerrillas (4,500+ Montoneros and 5,000 ERP), hundreds of soldiers/police, and 3,252 civilians killed in political violence from 1969 to 1980; 30.000 people disappeared by the government.[2][3]
Falklands War (1982)	Argentina	United Kingdom	Defeat Status quo ante bellum in South Georgia and the Falklands. Argentine occupation of Southern Thule ended. Collapse of the military junta.
Carapintadas Uprisings (1987-1990)	Argentina	Carapintadas	Government victory Uprisings stopped.
Attack on La Tablada barracks (1989)	Argentina	Movimiento Todos por la Patria	Government victory Argentine army and police victory.
Gulf War (Operativo Alfil) (1990–1991)	United States  Kuwait  United Kingdom  Saudi Arabia  France  Italy  Canada  Egypt  Syria  Morocco  United Arab Emirates  Pakistan  Oman  Qatar  Argentina And Coalition	Iraq	Victory Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait.
Croatian War of Independence (Operation Bljesak) (1991–1995)	Croatia United Nations  Argentina Nepal Jordania	Republika Srpska  Yugoslavia	Victory Croatian forces regain control over most of RSK-held Croatian territory Croatian forces advance into Bosnia and Herzegovina which helps lead to the eventual end of the Bosnian War Argentine arms trafficking scandal
Operation Uphold Democracy (1994–1995)	United States  Poland  Argentina	Haiti	Victory Reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti.

See also

• List of hostile incidents at the Argentine border
• Argentina during World War II

Notes

1. In this section of "combatant 1" appear the independent governments that managed to consolidate at the end of the war. Later, some of these governments disintegrated, as happened with Gran Colombia (Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador) or the First Mexican Empire (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica). Uruguay and Panama would be formed because of other conflicts.

References

1. Halperín Donghi 2007, p. 91.
2. Clodfelter, M. (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015 (4th ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0786474707.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link). Pages 649-650.
3. A 32 años de la caída en combate de Mario Roberto Santucho y la Dirección Histórica del PRT-ERP. Cedema.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2019-09-12.

Bibliography

• Halperín Donghi, Tulio (2007). The Contemporary History of Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-1374-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)