List of wars involving Portugal

This is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Portugal since end of the Andalusian rule in 1139.

Kingdom of Portugal (1139–1910)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Battle of Ourique
(1139)
County of Portugal Andalusian Muslims of the Almoravids Victory
Conquest of Santarém and Siege of Lisbon
(1147)
Kingdom of Portugal Andalusian Muslims of the Almoravids Victory
  • Liberation of Santarém and Lisbon
Siege of Santarém (1184)
(1184)
Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of León
Almohad Caliphate Victory
  • Pope Alexander III formally recognized Afonso I as rex Portugalensium
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
(1212)
Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of Castile
Crown of Aragon
Almohad Caliphate Victory
  • Turning point in the Reconquista
Battle of Río Salado
(1340)
Kingdom of Portugal
Spain Crown of Spain
Marinid Empire
Ottoman Empire
Victory
  • Defeat of the Marinid invasion
1383–85 Portuguese interregnum
(1383-1385)
Kingdom of Portugal
Supported by:
Kingdom of England
Crown of Castile
Supported by:
Kingdom of France
Crown of Aragon
Victory
  • Consolidation of Portuguese independence.
Conquest of Ceuta
(1415)
Kingdom of Portugal Marinid Empire Victory
Conquest of Asilah
(1471)
Kingdom of Portugal Wattasid Morocco Victory
Portuguese-Mamluk naval war
(1505-1517)
Portugal Mamluk Sultanate Victory
Capture of Ormuz
(1507)
Kingdom of Portugal Kingdom of Ormus
Safavid Empire
Victory
Portuguese conquest of Goa
(1510)
Kingdom of Portugal Adil Shahi dynasty Victory
Battle of Azemmour
(1513)
Kingdom of Portugal Wattasid Morocco Victory
  • Conquest of Azemmour in Morocco
Abyssinian–Adal war
(1529–1543)
 Ethiopian Empire
Kingdom of Portugal (1542-43)
Adal Sultanate
 Ottoman Empire (1542-43)
Victory
Siege of Diu
(1538)
Kingdom of Portugal Gujarat Sultanate
Ottoman Empire
Victory
Fall of Agadir
(1541)
Kingdom of Portugal Saadi Morocco Defeat
  • Loss of Agadir in Morocco
Battle of Alcácer Quibir
(1578)
Kingdom of Portugal Saadi Morocco
Ottoman Empire
Defeat
Portuguese Restoration War
(1640-1668)
Portugal Kingdom of Portugal
Supported by:
 France
(1641-59)[3]
 Kingdom of England
(after 1662)
Spain Crown of Spain Victory
Seven Years' War
(1756–1763)
 Great Britain
 Prussia
Portugal Portugal (from 1762)
Province of Hanover Hanover
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Iroquois Confederacy
Hesse-Kassel
Schaumburg-Lippe
 France
Austria
 Russia (until 1762)
Spain Spain (from 1762)
Sweden Sweden (1757–62)
Abenaki nation
Mughal Empire (from 1757)
Victory
Spanish-Portuguese War
(1776-1777)
Kingdom of Portugal Spain Spanish Empire Defeat
Tunisian-Sicilian War
(1801-1804)
Kingdom of Sicily
Albanian, German, and Greek mercenaries
 Kingdom of Sardinia (from 1802)

Naval support:
Portugal Portugal
United States United States

Beylik of Tunis
Cyrenaica Tunisian pirates
Regency of Algiers

Eyalet of Tripolitania (from 1803)
Limited support:
Eyalet of Egypt (1802-1803)
Morocco Morocco (1802-1804)

Victory
  • End of Tunisian attacks on Sicilian ships and impression on sailors.
  • Sicilian occupation of Aryanah and La Goulette until 1808.
  • Sardinian occupation of Bizerte and La Marsa until 1809.
  • 3,560 captured Christian-European slaves released.
Peninsular War
(1808-1814)
Spain Bourbon Spain
 United Kingdom
 Portugal
 France
Bonapartist Spain
Victory
War of the Sixth Coalition
(1813-1814)
 Russian Empire
Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia
 Austrian Empire
 United Kingdom
Sweden Kingdom of Sweden
Spain Spanish Empire
Portugal Kingdom of Portugal
 Two Sicilies
 Kingdom of Sardinia
 First French Empire
 Napoleonic Italy
 Kingdom of Naples
Duchy of Warsaw[lower-alpha 1]
VictoryTreaty of Fontainebleau, First Treaty of Paris
War of the Seventh Coalition
(1815)
 Russian Empire
Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia
 Austrian Empire
 United Kingdom
Sweden Kingdom of Sweden
Spain Spanish Empire
Portugal Kingdom of Portugal
 Two Sicilies
 Kingdom of Sardinia
 Netherlands
 First French Empire
 Kingdom of Naples
Victory Second Treaty of Paris
Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental
(1816 - 1820)
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves Banda Oriental
 Entre Ríos
 Misiones
Victory
  • Annexation of the Banda Oriental to the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
Brazilian War of Independence
(1822-1824)
Portugal Portugal  Empire of Brazil
European mercenaries
Defeat
Baishaling Incident
(1849)
Portugal Portugal China Victory

First Portuguese Republic (1910-1926)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
World War I
(19141918)
 France
 United Kingdom
 Russia
 United States
Republic of China (1912–49) China
 Italy
 Japan
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
Arab Revolt Hejaz
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Romania
 Belgium
 Greece
 Portugal
 Brazil
 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria
Victory

Third Portuguese Republic (1933-1974)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Integration of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
(1954)
Portugal Portugal  India Defeat
Angolan War of Independence
(1961-1974)
Portugal Portugal MPLA
FNLA
UNITA
FLEC
Portuguese Military victory
MPLA-Coalition Political victory

Alvor Agreement;

Annexation of Portuguese India
(1961)
Portugal Portugal  India Defeat
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
(1963-1974)
Portugal Portugal PAIGC PAIGC Political victory[6]
Military stalemate[6]
Mozambican War of Independence
(1964-1974)
Portugal Portugal Mozambique FRELIMO Portuguese military victory
FRELIMO Political victory[6]

Portugal (1974-present)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Bosnian War
(1994-1995)
Part of the Yugoslav Wars
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia Herzeg-Bosnia
 Croatia


 United States
 Belgium
 Canada
 Denmark
 France
 Germany
 Italy
 Luxembourg
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Portugal
 Spain
 Turkey
 United Kingdom

 Republika Srpska
YPA
 Serbian Krajina
Western Bosnia
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia
Victory
  • Dayton Accords
  • Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords
  • Deployment of NATO-led IFOR to oversee the peace agreement
  • Massive civilian casualties for the Bosniak ethnic group
Kosovo War
(1998-1999)
Part of the Yugoslav Wars
KLA
Albania AFRK
 Albania
 Croatia
 United States
 Belgium
 Canada
 Czech Republic
 Denmark
 France
 Germany
 Hungary
 Italy
 Luxembourg
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Portugal
 Poland
 Spain
 Turkey
 United Kingdom
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia Victory
War in Afghanistan
(2001-2014)
Part of the War on Terror
 United States
 Afghanistan
ISAF
 United Kingdom

 Azerbaijan
 Germany
 Denmark
 Italy
 France
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 El Salvador
 Armenia
 Georgia
 Norway
 Sweden
 Poland
 Estonia
 Romania
 Turkey
 Bulgaria
 Hungary
 Luxembourg
 Portugal
 Jordan
 Albania
 Iceland
Northern Alliance

Afghanistan Taliban

Allied groups


Taliban splinter groups

2001 invasion:
Afghanistan Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

al-Qaeda

"Victory"

Notes

  1. Duchy of Warsaw as a state was in effect fully occupied by Russian and Prussian forces by May 1813, though most Poles remained loyal to Napoleon

References

  1. 1 2 Henze, Paul B. (2000). Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia. Hurst & Company. p. 89. ISBN 1850655227.
  2. Historical dictionary of Ethiopia By David Hamilton Shinn, Thomas P. Ofcansky, Chris Prouty pg 171
  3. Treaty of alliance between France and Portugal concluded at Paris, June 1, 1641. Davenport, Frances Gardiner: European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies to 1648. Clark, New Jersey: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2012. ISBN 9781584774228, pp. 324-328
  4. Birmingham, p.51
  5. Crocker, Chester A.; Fen Osler Hampson; Pamela R. Aall (2005). Grasping The Nettle: Analyzing Cases Of Intractable Conflict. p. 213.
  6. 1 2 3 A Guerra - Colonial - do Ultramar - da Libertação, 2nd Season (Portugal 2007, director Joaquim Furtado, RTP)
  7. "Central Asian groups split over leadership of global jihad". The Long War Journal. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
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