List of wars involving Chile
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Chile from its birth in the first decades of the 19th century to the present.
- Chilean victory: in case of being an international war or that has an international scope due to the quality of the belligerents.
- Indecisive or inconclusive: in the case of a war of the same nature as in the case of a Chilean victory, but with an unclear or controversial result.
- Internal confrontation: in the case of a Chilean internal war, whatever the winning faction.
List
[edit]19th-century
[edit]Confrontation | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
---|---|---|---|
Spanish American wars of independence (1808–1833)
Chilean participation on:
| Patriots: (States consolidated in war)
Amerindian allies of the Patriots | Royalists: Amerindian allies of the Royalists | Victory
|
Chilean patriots conflict[4] (1814) | Government Junta of Santiago under Jose Miguel Carrera | Army in Talca under Bernardo O'Higgins | Carrera victory
|
Uprising of the Prieto brothers[5] (1819) | Chilean Government | Montoneras of Prieto brothers | Government victory
|
War against Pincheira brothers (1822–1832) | Chile United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (until 1831) Argentine Confederation (from 1831) Mapuche groups: (support increased since 1830)
| Montoneras of Pincheira brothers Mendoza Province (1829–1830) Mapuche groups:
| Victory
|
Chilean Civil War (1829–1830) | Pelucones Mapuche groups | Pipiolos Mapuche groups | Pelucones victory
|
Mapuche uprising (1834–1837) | Chile Mapuche ally:
| Mapuche groups:
| Victory
|
Freire's expedition (1836) | Chilean Government | Forces under Ramón Freire | Government victory
|
War of the Confederation (1836–1839) | United Restoration: Chile | Peru-Bolivian Confederation | Victory
|
Uprising of Quillota (1837) | Chilean Government | Rebels of Quillota | Government victory
|
Iquicha War[Note 4] (1839) | Chile Peru | Rebels of Iquicha | Victory
|
Chilean Revolution (1851) | Chilean Government | Liberal Rebels Mapuche
| Government victory
|
Chilean Revolution (1859) | Chilean Government | Liberal Rebels Mapuche | Government victory
|
Mapuche uprising (1859–1861) | Chile Mapuche ally:
| Mapuche groups:
| Victory
|
Occupation of Araucanía (1861–1883) | Chile | Mapuche | Victory
|
Chincha Islands War (1865–1871) | Chile Peru Ecuador Bolivia | Spain | Indecisive, both sides claimed victory
|
War of the Pacific (1879–1883) | Chile | Peru Bolivia | Victory
|
Chilean Civil War (1891) | Chilean Government | Congressist Junta | Congressist victory
|
20th-century
[edit]Confrontation | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
---|---|---|---|
Chile Chico War[12] (1918) | Businessman Carlos von Flack Some contingents of the Army Carabineros Corps[Note 6] | Chilean settlers of Chile Chico | Chilean settlers victory
|
Chilean naval mutiny (1931) | Chilean Government | Rebels of the Chilean Navy | Government victory
|
World War II (1939–1945) Relevant milestones regarding Chile:
| 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 Chile Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Venezuela Uruguay Argentina | Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang | Victory
With respect to Chile:
|
Cold War (1947–1991)
| Chilean Government | Chilean far-left guerrilla groups: | Government victory
|
Notes
[edit]- ^ The Chilean privateer Los Andes attacked the royalist garrisons in different points of the western coast of present-day Colombia between 1819 and 1820, with the aim of supporting General Simón Bolívar's forces that were fighting in the interior.[1]
- ^ From 1817, Chilean privateers began to harass Spanish-flagged ships at sea, even reaching the western coasts of Mexico. The same happened with the First Chilean Navy Squadron, commanded by Admiral Thomas Cochrane, who was present circumstantially between 1821 and 1822.[2]
- ^ On 25 April 1844, Spain officially recognized the independence of Chile through a Treaty of Peace and Friendship.[3]
- ^ After the dissolution of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, the iquichano leader Antonio Huachaca provoked an armed uprising against the Chilean-Peruvian victors. Chilean troops fought against these rebels until peace was achieved.[8]
- ^ During the course of the War of the Pacific, the United States intervened diplomatically in favor of Peru and Bolivia, trying to avoid the territorial cession in favor of Chile. This generated an atmosphere of tension or rivalry between both countries, especially because Chile emerged as a regional power after the war. The greatest example of this struggle between Chile and the United States was the Panama crisis of 1885.[10]
- ^ In 1903, the Army Carabineros Corps was created, in charge of exercising internal security functions.[13] This unit belonged to the cavalry branch of the Chilean Army.[14] On 27 April 1927, the Army Carabineros Corps merged with the Fiscal Police, thus forming the current institution known as Carabiniers of Chile.[14]
References
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- ^ López Urrutia, Carlos (2007). Historia de la Marina de Chile (in Spanish) (2 ed.). Santiago, Chile: El Ciprés Editores. pp. 35–49, 170–207. ISBN 978-0-6151-8574-3.
- ^ Barros Van Buren, Mario (1970). Historia diplomática de Chile (1541-1938) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello. p. 174.
- ^ Barros Arana, Diego (1888). Historia jeneral de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. IX. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Cervantes. pp. 479–495, 502–512, 531–535.
- ^ Barros Arana, Diego (1892). Historia jeneral de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. XII. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Cervantes. pp. 128–132, 137–146.
- ^ Collier, Simon; Sater, William (1996). A History of Chile, 1808-1994. Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 68. ISBN 0-521-56827-7.
- ^ Musicó Aschiero, Ana María (June 2013). "Guerra de la Confederación Argentina con la Confederación Perú-Boliviana 1835-1839". Revista Digital Universitaria del Colegio Militar de la Nación (in Spanish) (33). Buenos Aires, Argentina: 5–6. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ Galdo Gutiérrez, Virgilio (1992). Ayacucho: Conflictos y pobreza, historia regional (siglos XVI-XIX) (in Spanish). Ayacucho, Perú: San Cristóbal of Huamanga University. pp. 179–180.
- ^ a b Tapia Figueroa, Claudio (2016). "La política chilena en la postguerra del Pacífico: Poder, influencia y relaciones con Ecuador" (PDF). FONDECYT, Federico Santa María Technical University (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: 129. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ Rubilar Luengo, Mauricio (2012). La política exterior de Chile durante la guerra y postguerra del Pacífico (1879-1891): Las relaciones con Estados Unidos y Colombia: Diplomacia, opinión pública y poder naval (Thesis) (in Spanish). Valladolid, España: University of Valladolid. pp. 471–472.
- ^ Varela Münchmeyer, Eugenio (January–February 1992). "Manejo de crisis. Situación Chile-Estados Unidos en 1891-1892" (PDF). Revista de Marina (in Spanish). 109 (806). Viña del Mar, Chile: 2–3. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ Ivanoff Wellmann, Danka (1999). La guerra de Chile Chico o los sucesos del lago Buenos Aires (in Spanish). Chile. pp. 1–118.
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- ^ a b Estado Mayor General del Ejército (1980). Historia del Ejército de Chile: La Primera Guerra Mundial y su influencia en el ejército (1914–1940) (in Spanish). Vol. VIII. Santiago, Chile: Impresos Vicuña. p. 257.
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- ^ Paredes Venegas, Mauricio (2012). Nacionalismo, seguridad y presión internacional. La relegación de japoneses en Chile durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (Thesis) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile. pp. 1–742.
- ^ Daley, Jason (27 June 2017). "Documents Show Chile Foiled Nazi Plot to Attack Panama Canal". smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
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