List of wars involving Mexico

Mexico has been involved in numerous different military conflicts over the years, with most being civil/internal wars.

The following is a list of wars involving Mexico:

Mexican troops operating in the Mexican Drug War.

• Pre-Columbian/Indigenous Tribal Warfare (?B.C.-1600's), wars and battles by indigenous pre-Columbian civilizations and tribes in modern-day Mexico. Mainly by the Aztec, Maya, Tlaxcaltec, Zapotec, Toltec and Tarascan.
  • The Tepanec Civil War (1426-1428), Aztec Mexico civil war
  • Flower Wars (1426/8-1519), Aztec Triple Alliance against other pre-Columbian nations in Mesoamerica
• Spanish Invasion (1519-1521)
• Mexican Indian Wars (1519-1933)
  • Yaqui Wars (1533-1929)
    • Yaqui Uprising (1896)
    • Yaqui Indian War (1899-1904?), One of the last of the long series of Mexican-Indian Wars, this conflict began when chiefs of the eight principal Yaqui Indian tribes demand Mexican withdrawal from the Sinaloa region.^[1]
  • Apache-Mexico Wars (Spain: 1600s-1821, Mexico: 1821-1915), raids and conflicts between Spanish Mexico and the Apaches, and Mexico and the Apaches. Part of the Mexican Indian Wars.
    • Victorio's War (1879–1880), part of the Apache–Mexico Wars and the long series of Mexican Indian Wars.
  • Comanche-Mexico Wars, part of the Mexican Indian Wars.
  • Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901)
• Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821)
• Spanish reconquest of Mexico (1821-1829), a series of attempts by Spain to thwart the independence of Mexico
• The Era of Mexican Coups (1820s-1846), Several states create their own militia to fight the army and gain independence. Several states openly rebelled against Santa Anna's Mexico: Coahuila y Tejas (the northern part of which would become the Republic of Texas), San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Yucatán, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas. Several of these states formed their own governments, the Republic of the Rio Grande, the Republic of Yucatan (Twice), and the Republic of Texas. (Only the Texans defeated Santa Anna and retained their independence). The Zacatecan militia, the largest and best supplied of the Mexican states, led by Francisco Garcia, was well armed with .753 caliber British 'Brown Bess' muskets and Baker .61 rifles. Nonetheless, after two hours of combat on 12 May 1835, Santa Anna's "Army of Operations" defeated the Zacatecan militia and took almost 3,000 prisoners. Santa Anna allowed his army to loot Zacatecas for forty-eight hours. After defeating Zacatecas, he planned to move on to Coahuila y Tejas to quell the rebellion there, which was being supported by settlers from the United States (aka Texians).
  • Central American Federation War of independence (1822-1823), The brief Mexican Empire under Emperor Iturbide lost control of Central America in a short war in which the United Provinces of Central America became an independent nation^[2].
  • Texas Revolution (1835–1836)
  • Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901)
• Pastry War (1838–1839), the first French invasion of Mexico
• Mexican–American War (1846–1848)
• Reform War (1857–1861), civil war between Conservatives and Liberals
• French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867)
• Las Cuevas War (1875), a brief armed conflict between a force of Texas Rangers commanded by Capt. Leander McNelly and an irregular force of Mexican militia
• Garza Revolution (1891-1893), a minor rebellion in which Mexicans from Texas raided into Coahuila, Mexico.
• Mexican Revolution (1910–1921), civil war
  • Border War (1910-1918), Banana Wars, World War I, referring to the conflicts between the United States military and Mexico which took place roughly between 1910 and 1918 along the Mexico – United States border and Veracruz. Also Mexico and the German Empire against U.S. forces. United States occupation of Veracruz, Battle of Columbus (1916), Battle of Parral, Battle of Carrizal, and Battle of Ambos Nogales were some notable engagement of these wars.
• Cristero War (1926–1929), civil war between Catholics and the non-religious government
• World War II (1942–1945)
• Dirty War (1968–1982)
• Zapatista Uprising (1994-Present ), indigenous groups declare war against the Mexican Government
• EPR Marxist Guerrilla Conflict (1996-Present), The Popular Revolutionary Army or Ejército Popular Revolucionario (EPR) formed in 1996 and promotes a Marxist philosophy. Several clashes with Mexican military forces in Oaxaca state followed the group's July 1996 declaration of war against the government. The EPR is believed to be connected to the pipeline attacks in June and September, 2007.^[3]
• Mexican Drug War (2006-Ongoing), Mexico's major war on drugs

Massacres Conducted by Mexican Government

There have been many massacres in Mexico, but there have been a few that have been carried out by government forces. These are a list of Mexican Government massacres:

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	War	Notes
Acteal massacre	December 22, 1997	Chenalhó, Chiapas	45	Chiapas conflict	Killing of "Las Abejas" group, by the paramilitary group "Mascara Roja", or "Red Mask", affiliated with the PRI-party of the Mexican Government, and supported by the Mexican Army[4]
Aguas Blancas massacre	June 28, 1995	Aguas Blancas, Guerrero, Mexico	17	led to EPR Marxist Guerrilla Movement	Led to the EPR Marxist Guerrilla Movement.
Tula massacre	January 14, 1982	Atotonilco de Tula, Hidalgo	13	N/A	Municipality of Atotonilco de Tula in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, north of Mexico City, where 13 Colombian men were murdered by a corrupt police force.
Corpus Christi massacre	June 10, 1971	Mexico City	120	N/A	Also known as "El Halconazo", the massacre when a student demonstration in support of students of Monterrey was violently suppressed by a paramilitary group for the government called Los Halcones.
Tlatelolco massacre	October 2, 1968	Mexico City	44	N/A before the 1968 Summer Olympics Mexico City	Government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City. The violence occurred ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics celebrations in Mexico City. Officially 25 were killed, but according to human rights activists, CIA documents[233] and independent investigations, there were a total of 250 killed. There have only been evidence of 44 people killed. Estimates of the death toll range from 30 to 1000, with eyewitnesses reporting hundreds of dead. 1345 people were also arrested.
Santa Isabel Massacre	January 10, 1916	train near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua, Mexico	18	Border War (1910-1918), Mexican Revolution	The January 1916 San Isabel Massacre occurred. Villistas stopped a train near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua and killed eighteen American passengers from the ASARCO company of Tucson, Arizona.
Crabb Massacre	April 1-8, 1857	Caborca, Sonora, Mexico	84	Crabb Expedition, Reform War	84 killed out of a total of 85 american men.
Dawson Massacre	September 17, 1842	near San Antonio de Bexar, Texas	36	Mexican Invasions of Texas	15 captured and 36 killed out of a total of 54 texan men.
Goliad massacre	March 27, 1836	Goliad County, Texas	342	Texas Revolution	465 prisonors. 28 escaped, 20 spared as workers, 75 spared as unarmed captives.

References

1. ^ http://www.historyguy.com/wars_of_mexico.html
2. ^ http://www.historyguy.com/wars_of_mexico.html
3. ^ http://www.historyguy.com/wars_of_mexico.html
4. ^ http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB283/index.htm