Counter-revolutionary attempted interventions by Spain to reclaim Mexico as a colony
Spanish attempts to reconquer Mexico
Part of Spanish American wars of independence
Battle of Pueblo Viejo
Date
26 October 1821 – 11 September 1829 (7 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Location
Mexico (Mexico City, Veracruz, Tamaulipas) and Cuba
Result
Mexican victory
Spain recognizes the independence of the United Mexican States in 1836
Belligerents
First Mexican Empire (1821–23) Provisional Government (1823–24) First Mexican Republic (1824–29)
Spanish Empire
Commanders and leaders
Agustín I Miguel Barragán Antonio López de Santa Anna Manuel Mier y Terán
Ferdinand VII Isidro Barradas José María Coppinger Melitón Pérez del Camino
Strength
4,500 (1829)
3,500 (1829)
Casualties and losses
135 killed in combat (1829)
215 killed in combat (1829) and 1,708 killed by diseases and in combat in the Tampico expedition
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Spanish colonial campaigns
15th century
Canary Islands (1402–96)
Santa Cruz de la Mar Pequeña (1478)
Guinea (1478)
Algeria (1497)
Melilla (1497)
16th century
Algeria (1505)
Algeria (1507)
Morocco (1508)
Algeria (1509)
Algeria (1510)
Tripoli (1510)
Tunisia (1510)
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Algeria (1516)
Algeria (1517–18)
Mexico (1519–1821)
Mexico (1519–21)
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Tunisia (1520)
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El Salvador (1524–39)
Honduras (1524–39)
Morocco (1525)
Yucatán (1527–1697)
Algeria (1529)
Algeria (1531)
Peru (1532–72)
Tunisia (1534)
Algeria (1535)
Tunisia (1535)
Colombia (1537–40)
Algeria (1541)
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Halmahera (1545)
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Libya (1551)
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Morocco (1563)
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17th century
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18th century
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19th century
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Morocco (1859–1860)
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Morocco (1893–94)
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Philippines (1896–98)
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Guam (1898)
20th century
Morocco (1909)
Morocco (1911–12)
Morocco (1920–26)
Morocco (1957–58)
Western Sahara (1973–76)
Western Sahara (1975)
Spanish attempts to reconquer Mexico were efforts by the Spanish government to regain possession of its former colony of New Spain, resulting in episodes of war comprised in clashes between the newly born Mexican nation and Spain. The designation mainly covers two periods: the first attempts occurred from 1821 to 1825 and involved the defense of Mexico's territorial waters, while the second period had two stages, including the Mexican expansion plan to take the Spanish-held island of Cuba between 1826 and 1828 and the 1829 expedition of Spanish General Isidro Barradas, which landed on Mexican soil with the object of reconquering Mexican territory. Although the Spanish never regained control of the country, they damaged the fledgling Mexican economy.
The newly independent nation of Mexico was in dire straits after eleven years of fighting its War of Independence. There were no clear plans or guidelines established by the revolutionaries, and internal struggles by different factions for control of the government ensued. Mexico suffered a complete lack of funds to administer a country of over 4.5 million km2 and faced the threats of emerging internal rebellions and of invasion by Spanish forces from their base in nearby Cuba.
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