List of wars involving the Dominican Republic

This is a list of wars involving the Dominican Republic.

List edit

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results Casualties
Dominican War of Independence
(1844–1856)
  Dominican Republic   Haiti Victory
  • Expulsion of Haitian government
  • Dominican independence
unknown
Dominican Restoration War
(1863–1865)
  Dominican Republic   Spain Victory
  • Restoration of Dominican sovereignty
  • Withdrawal of Spanish forces
4,000 dead[1]
Six Years' War
(1868–1874)
  Dominican Conservatives   Dominican Liberals Liberal Victory
unknown
First Dominican Civil War
(1911–1912)
  Dominican Government   Dominican Rebels
Supported by:
Rebel Victory
over 3,000 dead
Second Dominican Civil War
(1914)
  Dominican Government
Supported by:
  Dominican Rebels Government Victory
unknown
United States occupation
of the Dominican Republic

(1916–1924)
  Dominican Republic   United States Defeat
  • Dominican Republic occupied
1,137 killed or wounded[2]
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
  Slovakia
  Finland
  Thailand
  Manchukuo
  Mengjiang
Victory
27 killed[3]
Third Dominican Civil War
(1965–1966)
  Dominican Loyalists
  United States
  Brazil
  Paraguay
  Honduras
  Nicaragua
  Costa Rica
  El Salvador
  Dominican Constitutionalists Victory
300 KIA[4]
Iraq War
(2003–2004)
  Iraq
  United States
  United Kingdom
  South Korea
  Italy
  Poland
  Australia
  Georgia
  Ukraine
  Netherlands
  Romania
  Denmark
  Spain
  El Salvador
  Honduras
  Nicaragua
  Dominican Republic
  Ba'ath Loyalists
  ISI
  al-Qaeda in Iraq
  Mahdi Army
  Special Groups
  IAI
  Ansar al-Sunnah

  Ba'athist Iraq

Victory
None[5]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Clodfelter, Micheal (24 April 2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015, 4th ed. ISBN 9781476625850.
  2. ^ Fuller, Stephen M.; Cosmas, Graham A. (1974). "Marines in the Dominican Republic (1916-1924)" (PDF). US Marine Corps History and Museums Division.
  3. ^ See World War II by country
  4. ^ From Immigrant To U.S. Marine. 22 February 2007. ISBN 9781467816601.
  5. ^ See 2004 withdrawals