List of wars involving Peru

This article is a list of military conflicts in which Peru played an important role spanning from 1532 to the present.

Conflicts before Republican Era

Republican Era

Conventional Wars

Conflict Peru and Peruvian Allies War against Results Head of State
of Peru
Gran Colombia–Peru War
(1828-1829)
 Republic of Peru  Republic of Colombia
Bolivia
Peruvian Victory
  • Signing of the Larrea-Gual Treaty. Naval victory of Peru. Land campaign unfinished and without decisive results. Dissolution of the Great Colombia.
  • Peru recognized the Colombian annexation of Guayaquil and Colombia recognized implicitly Peruvian sovereignty of Tumbes, Jaen and Maynas.
Jose de la Mar
Agustín Gamarra
Salaverry-Santa Cruz War
(1835-1836)
 Peru-Bolivia Confederacy  Peru Defeat
Felipe Santiago Salaverry
War of the Confederation
(1836-1839)
Peru-Bolivian Confederation Chile
Peruvian dissidents
Argentina
United Restorative Army victory
  • Dissolution of the Confederation.
Various
Peruvian-Bolivian War of 1841-1842
(1841-1842)
 Peru  Bolivia Cease-fire
  • Treaty of Puno. Bolivian expulsion from southern Peru
  • Peruvian army expelled from Bolivia
  • Bolivian army expelled from Peru
Agustín Gamarra
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of 1857-1860
(1857-1860)
 Republic of Peru  Republic of Ecuador Military Victory of Perú
  • Subscription of the Treaty of Mapasingue.
Ramon Castilla
Chincha Islands War
(1864-1866)
 Peru
 Chile

Nominal participation:
 Ecuador
 Bolivia

Spain Indecisive, both sides claimed victory
  • The state of war is maintained between the belligerent parties until the signing of an indefinite armistice in 1871.
  • Subsequently, Spain and the South American allies signed peace treaties separately: Peru (1879), Bolivia (1879), Chile (1883) and Ecuador (1885).
Mariano Ignacio Prado
War of the Pacific
(1879-1883)
 Peru
 Bolivia
 Chile Defeat
  • Chilean forces capture Lima
  • Chilean forces occupy Tacna, Arica and Tarapaca
  • Tacna reincorporated to Peru in 1929.
  • Bolivia loses its access to the sea
Mariano Ignacio Prado

es:Luis La Puerta de Mendoza
Nicolás de Piérola
Francisco García Calderón
Lizardo Montero Flores

Miguel Iglesias
Colombia–Peru War
(1932-1933)
 Peru  Colombia Statu quo ante bellum
  • Ratification of the Solomon-Lozano Treaty
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
Óscar R. Benavides
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War
(1941)
 Peru  Ecuador Peruvian Victory
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
Cenepa War
(1995)
 Peru  Ecuador Statu quo ante bellum
  • Acta of Brasilia
  • The border was closed, as indicated in the Rio de Janeiro Protocol of 1942, and the end of all differences between the two nations was declared
Alberto Fujimori

Non-Conventional Wars

Peruvian intervention in Bolivia of 1828  Republic of Peru  Republic of Colombia
Bolivia
Peruvian Victory
  • Treaty of Piquiza. Withdrawal of troops from the Gran Colombia of Bolivia. Term of Bolivarian influence in Bolivia.
Jose de la Mar
Agustín Gamarra
Iquicha War
(1839)
 Peru
 Chile
Iquichanos Peru & Chile victory
  • Signature of the Treaty of Yanallay in which the Iquichanos submit to the Republic of Peru.
  • Isolation of the caudillo Antonio Huachaca.
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Liberal revolution
(1854)
 Peru  Peru Victory of the rebels
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Huascar incident
(1877)
 Peru  Peru Defeat of the rebels
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Insurrection of Loreto
(1896)
 Peru Federal State of Loreto (1896) Defeat of the rebels
Nicolás de Piérola
Revolt of the Salt
(1896)
 Peru  Peru Defeat of the rebels
Nicolás de Piérola
Forgotten campaign of the Manuripi region
(1910)
 Peru  Bolivia Diplomatic Victory[1][2]
  • Recognition of most of the territory in dispute as belonging to Peru.[3] Delivery of the Purus to the Peruvian territory.[4] Peru recognizes that an area of the territories of Acre —adjacent to the Madre de Dios and Tambotapa rivers (91,726 km2 (35,416 sq mi))— are Bolivian.[5][6] Death of the bolivian captain Lino Echevarria.
Augusto B. Leguía
Conflict of the Pedrera
(1911)
 Peru  Colombia Peruvian Victory
  • Colombian troops were evicted from La Pedrera.
Augusto B. Leguía
War against Terrorism
(1980–2017)
 Peru Shining Path

MRTA (1982–1997)

Peruvian Victory
  • Strong weakening of the Shining Path. Sendero Luminoso last groups still active on high jungle.
  • Total defeat of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
Fernando Belaúnde Terry
Alan García

Alberto Fujimori
Valentín Paniagua
Alejandro Toledo
Ollanta Humala

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Paquisha War
(1981)
 Peru  Ecuador Peruvian Victory
  • The posts installed by Ecuadorian troops came to be controlled by the Peruvian Army.
  • Statu Quo ante bellum of 1942 .
Fernando Belaúnde Terry

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