This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Costa Rica.
Costa Rican military victory
Costa Rican military defeat
Indecisive or unclear outcome
Ongoing conflict
Conflict
Combatant 1
Combatant 2
Results
Ochomogo War (1823)
Republicans
Imperialists
Republican victory
The First Mexican Empire was already dissolved at the time, Republicans moved the capital from Cartago to San José.
League War (1835)
San José
Alajuela Cartago Heredia
San Jose's victory
Filibuster War (1855–1857)
Costa Rica Nicaragua Kingdom of Mosquitia Guatemala Honduras El Salvador United States
Filibusters
Victory
William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the American Navy
Barrios' War of Reunification (1885)
El Salvador Mexico Costa Rica Nicaragua
Guatemala Honduras
Victory
Withdrawal of Guatemalan soldiers
Death of Justo Rufino Barrios
World War I (1918)
France United Kingdom Russia United States Italy Japan China Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Serbia Montenegro Romania Belgium Greece Portugal Brazil Cuba Panama Guatemala Nicaragua Costa Rica Honduras
Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria
Victory
End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires
Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East
Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers
Establishment of the League of Nations
Coto War (1921)
Costa Rica
Panama
Victory
Panama ceded Coto to Costa Rica[1]
World War II (1941–1945)
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 Panama Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic Cuba
Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovak Republic (1939–1945) Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang
Victory
Collapse of the Third Reich
Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
Creation of the United Nations
Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
Beginning of the Cold War
Costa Rican Civil War (1948)
Costa Rica Calderón Forces People's Vanguard Party Somoza Forces
National Liberation Movement Ulatistas
Regime change
Teodoro Picado Michalski toppled
Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica (1955)
Costa Rica
Calderón Forces Nicaragua
Victory
Nicaraguan withdrawal from Costa Rica
Dominican Civil War (1965–1966)
Dominican Loyalists United States Brazil Paraguay Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador
Dominican Constitutionalists
Victory
Juan Bosch excluded from Presidency
Election of Joaquín Balaguer
^Tomán, René De La Pedraja. Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941, p. 100. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &, 2006.
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