# 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.
War of Jenkins' Ear (War of the Austrian Succession):
* Battle of La Guaira – 1743
* Battle of Puerto Cabello – 1743
Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808): Cutting out of the Hermione – 1799
War of 1812 (Sixty Years' War): Battle of La Guaira (1812)
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Notable battles |
| 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 | Battle of La Victoria (1812) Battle of Alto de los Godos – 1813 Battle of Niquitao – 1813 – Admirable Campaign Battle of Los Horcones – 1813 – Admirable Campaign Battle of Taguanes – 1813 – Admirable Campaign Battle of Araure – 1813 Battle of La Victoria – 1814 Battle of San Mateo – 1814 Battle of Carabobo (1814) Battle of Urica – 1814 Battle of San Félix – 1817 Battle of Matasiete – 1817 Battle of Las Queseras del Medio – 1819 Battle of Carabobo – 1821 Battle of Lake Maracaibo – 1823 |
| 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 | Battle of Santa Inés – 1859 Battle of Coplé – 1860 Battle of Buchivacoa – 1862 |
| 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) 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. | |