List of wars involving Venezuela

This is a list of wars involving the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its predecessor states from 1810 to the present.

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Venezuelan War of Independence (1810–1823) Detail of The Battle of Carabobo (1887) by Martín Tovar y Tovar	Venezuela New Granada Gran Colombia	Spain	Victory Independence of Venezuela Formation of Gran Colombia
Spanish Reconquest of New Granada (1815–1816)	New Granada Venezuela	Spain	Defeat
Liberation Campaign of New Granada (1819–1820)	New Granada Venezuela	Spain	Victory
Ecuadorian War of Independence (1820–1822)	Guayaquil Gran Colombia Chile Peru Río de la Plata	Spain	Victory Incorporation of the Real Audiencia of Quito into Gran Colombia
Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828–1829)	Gran Colombia	Peru	Stalemate Status quo ante bellum
Federal War (1859–1863) Combat of Maiquetía, during the beginning of the Federal War, 2 September 1859	Conservative Government	Federalists	Federalist victory Establishment of a Federalist government
Venezuelan Crisis of 1902–1903 (1902–1903) A cover of the "Le Petit Parisien" depicting the bombardment of Castle San Carlos	Venezuela	United Kingdom Germany Italy	Compromise Venezuelan military victory
Dutch–Venezuelan Crisis of 1908 (1908) HNLMS Gelderland, the Dutch cruiser that successfully captured two Venezuelan gunboats in Venezuelan territorial waters	Venezuela	Netherlands	Defeat HNLMS Gelderland captures Venezuelan gunboats Alexis and 23 de Mayo Dutch blockade of Venezuela's coast
World War II (Unofficial: 1942–1945; officially in 1945)^[1] Venezuelan gunboat General Urdaneta, which assisted in rescuing the crews of several torpedoed vessels during Operation Neuland	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 Collapse of the German 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
Machurucuto Incident (1967)	Venezuela	Venezuelan rebels Cuba	Victory Cuban expedition fails.