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List of wars involving Brazil

This article is about post-colonial Brazil. For colonial Brazil, see List of wars involving Portugal.
For a list of rebellions and revolutions, see List of rebellions and revolutions in Brazil.

This is a list of wars involving the Federative Republic of Brazil and its predecessor states, from 1815 to the present day.

United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1822)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result King
Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental
(1816–1820) 		  U.K. of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves   Federal League Victory
John VI

Empire of Brazil (1822–1889)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Emperor
Brazilian War of Independence
(1822–1825) 		  Brazil   Portugal Victory
Pedro I
Confederation of the Equator
(1824) 		  Brazil   Confederates Loyalist victory
Cisplatine War
(1825–1828) 		  Brazil   United Provinces
  Thirty-Three Orientals 		Stalemate
Cabanagem
(1835–1840) 		  Brazil   Rebels Loyalist victory
  • Devastation of the economy of Grão-Pará Province;
  • Death of roughly 20% of the population in the province.
Pedro II
Ragamuffin War
(1835–1845) 		  Brazil   Riograndense Republic
  Juliana Republic 		Loyalist victory
Sabinada
(1837–1838) 		  Brazil   Bahia Republic Loyalist victory
  • Reincorporation of Bahia into Brazil.
Platine War
(1851–1852) 		  Brazil
  Defense Government
  Entre Ríos
  Corrientes
  Santa Fe 		  Argentina
  Cerrito Government
  Federalists 		Victory
Uruguayan War
(1864–1865) 		  Brazil
  Colorados
  Unitarians
  Argentina 		  Uruguay
  Blancos
  Federalists
  Paraguay (support) 		Victory
  • Takeover of the Uruguayan government by the Colorado Party;
  • Invasion of Brazilian and Argentine provinces by Paraguay, prompting the start of the Paraguayan War.
Paraguayan War
(1864–1870) 		  Brazil
  Argentina
  Uruguay 		  Paraguay Victory

Brazilian Republic (1889–)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result President
Federalist Revolution
(1893–1895) 		  Brazilian government Federalists
Navy mutineers 		Government victory
Floriano Peixoto
War of Canudos
(1896–1897) 		  Brazilian government Canudos inhabitants Government victory
  • Total destruction of Canudos;
  • Death of most of the population in the settlement.
Prudente de Morais
Acre War
(1899–1903) 		  Republic of Acre
  Brazil 		  Bolivia Victory
Campos Sales
Rodrigues Alves
Contestado War
(1912–1916) 		  Brazilian government   Rebels Government victory
  • Revolt suppressed.
Hermes da Fonseca
Venceslau Brás
First World War
(1914–1918)
(Limited involvement, 1917–1918) 		  France
  United Kingdom
  Russia
  United States
  Italy
  Japan
  Brazil
and others 		  Germany
  Austria-Hungary
  Ottoman Empire
  Bulgaria
and others 		Victory
Constitutionalist Revolution
(1932) 		  Brazilian government   Constitutionalists Government military victory
  • Surrender of the revolutionary forces;
  • Promulgation of a new constitution, the main goal of the uprising, in 1934.
Getúlio Vargas
Second World War
(1939–1945)
(Limited involvement, 1942–1945) 		  United States
  Soviet Union
  United Kingdom
  China
  Brazil
and others 		  Germany
  Italy
  Japan
and others 		Victory
  • Collapse of Nazi Germany and fall of the Italian and Japanese empires;
  • Creation of the United Nations;
  • Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers;
  • Beginning of the Cold War.
Dominican Civil War
(1965) 		  Loyalists
  United States
  IAPF 		  Constitutionalists Victory
Humberto Castelo Branco
Operation Traíra
(1991)
Part of the Colombian conflict 		  Brazil
  Colombia 		  FARC Victory
  • Recovery of most of the stolen weaponry;
  • End of FARC operations in Brazilian territory.
Fernando Collor

See also

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Bibliography

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  • Fausto, Boris; Fausto, Sérgio (2022). História Concisa do Brasil. EDUSP. ISBN 978-85-3141-582-1.
  • Halperín Donghi, Tulio (2007). The Contemporary History of Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-08-2231-374-8.
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