List of wars involving Peru

This article is a list of military conflicts in which Peru played an important role spanning from 1532 to the present.

Conflicts before Republican Era

Republican Era

Conflict Peru and Peruvian Allies War against Results Head of State
of Peru
Gran Colombia – Peru War
(1828 - 1829)
 Republic of Peru  Republic of Colombia
Bolivia
Stalemate
  • Peru recognized the Colombian annexation of Guayaquil and Colombia recognized implicitly Peruvian sovereignty of Tumbes, Jaen and Maynas
Jose de la Mar
Agustin Gamarra
War of the Confederation
(1836 - 1839)
Peru–Bolivian Confederation Peru-Bolivian Confederation Chile Chile
Peru Peruvian dissidents
Argentine Confederation Argentina
United Restorative Army victory
  • Dissolution of the Confederation.
Various
Peru - Bolivia War
(1841)
 Republic of Peru  Bolivia Bolivian Army victory
  • Last try to unite Peru and Bolivia ended
  • Peruvian army expelled from Bolivia
  • Bolivian army expelled from Peru
Agustín Gamarra
Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute of 1857–60
 Republic of Peru  Republic of Ecuador Military Victory
status quo ante bellum
Ramon Castilla
Chincha Islands War
(1864 - 1866)
 Peru
 Chile
Joined in 1866:
 Ecuador
 Bolivia
Spain Spain Victory
  • Peruvian Independence recognized by Spain (1879)
Mariano Ignacio Prado
War of the Pacific
(1879 - 1883)
 Peru
 Bolivia
 Chile Defeat
  • Chilean forces capture Lima
  • Chilean forces occuppy Tacna and Arica
  • Tacna reincorporated to Peru in 1925.
Mariano Ignacio Prado

es:Luis La Puerta de Mendoza
Nicolás de Piérola
Francisco García Calderón
Lizardo Montero Flores

Miguel Iglesias
Colombia–Peru War
(1932 - 1933)
 Peru  Colombia status quo ante bellum
  • Leticia dispute declared over
  • Treaty Salomon Lozano's Appliance
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
Óscar R. Benavides
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War
(1941)
 Peru  Ecuador Peruvian Victory
  • Signing of the Rio de Janeiro Protocol
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
Paquisha War
(1981)
 Peru  Ecuador Peruvian Victory
  • Status Quo of 1942
Fernando Belaúnde Terry
War against Terrorism
(1980-present)
 Peru Shining Path

MRTA (1982–1997)

Peruvian Victory
  • Sendero Luminoso last groups still active on high jungle
Fernando Belaúnde Terry

Alan García
Alberto Fujimori
Valentín Paniagua
Alejandro Toledo
Ollanta Humala

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Cenepa War
(1995)
 Peru  Ecuador ' Closing the frontier, as stated in Protocolo de Rio de Janeiro, and declaring the end to all differences between the two nations
Alberto Fujimori


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