List of wars involving Cuba

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Cuba and predecessor states.

Cuba defeat

Cuba victory

Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)

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Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604): Battle of Pinos (1596), Raid on Santiago de Cuba (1603)
Eighty Years' War, 1621–1648 (Eighty Years' War and Thirty Years' War): Battle in the Bay of Matanzas (1628)
Invasion of Cuba (1741) – 1741 – War of Jenkins' Ear (War of the Austrian Succession)

Battle of Santiago de Cuba (1748) – 1748 – War of Jenkins' Ear (War of the Austrian Succession)
Battle of Havana (1748) – 1748 – War of Jenkins' Ear (War of the Austrian Succession)
Battle of the Windward Passage – 1760 – Seven Years' War
Siege of Havana – 1762 – Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763) (Seven Years' War)
Action of 17 February 1783 – 1783 – American Revolutionary War
Action of 23 August 1806 – 1806 – Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) (French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars)
Spanish–American War: Battle of San Juan Hill (1898), battle of Santiago de Cuba (1898)

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Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	President	Prime Minister
Lopez Expedition (1850-1851)	Filibusters	Captaincy General of Cuba	Spanish Cuba victory Filibuster leaders executed	None	None
Ten Years' War (1868–1878)	Republic of Cuba in Arms Cuban Liberation Army Supported by: American, Puerto Rican, Dominican and Mexican volunteers^[1]	Spanish Empire Captaincy General of Cuba	Pact of Zanjón	None
Little War (Cuba) (1879–1880)	Cuban Rebels	Spain	Spanish victory
Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898)	Republic of Cuba in Arms Mambises Cuban Liberation Army	Spanish Empire Captaincy General of Cuba	American intervention; independence granted in 1902 Treaty of Paris United States governance of Cuba Cuban independence
Cuban Pacification (1906)	Conservatives	Liberals	Liberal victory Subsequent US occupation of Cuba	Tomás Estrada Palma
War of 1912 (1912)	Cuba United States	Cuban Partido Independiente de Color	Rebellion suppressed Dissolution of the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC)	José Miguel Gómez
Chambelona War (1917)	Cuba United States	Liberal Party of Cuba	Rebellion suppressed	Mario García Menocal
Sugar Intervention (1917–1922)	Conservatives United States	Liberals	Conservative victory Uprising quelled, US occupation of Cuba

World War I (1917–1918)	Allied Powers: France United Kingdom and Empire: Australia Canada Ceylon Egypt Newfoundland New Zealand India South Africa Russia (until 1917)^[a] Italy (from 1915) United States (from 1917) Japan Cuba and others ...	Central Powers: Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria (from 1915) and others ...	Allied Powers victory (see Aftermath of World War I)}} Partition of the Ottoman Empire, dissolution of Austria-Hungary, transfer of German colonies and territories to other countries Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East, such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Weimar Germany, Soviet Russia and Soviet Union, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Hejaz, and Yemen
Sugar Intervention (1917–1922)	Conservatives United States	Liberals	Conservative victory Uprising quelled, US occupation of Cuba
World War II (1941–1945)	Allies 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	Axis Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang	Allied victory (see Aftermath of World War II)^[2] 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	Fulgencio Batista	Carlos Saladrigas Zayas
Cuban Revolution (1953–1959)	Cuba Cuban Constitutional Army	26th of July Movement Revolutionary Directorate of March 13th Second National Front of Escambray	Revolutionary victory Overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's government Establishment of a government led by Fidel Castro Beginning of the Escambray rebellion	Fulgencio Batista	Andrés Domingo
Escambray rebellion (1959–1965)	Government of Cuba Soviet Union	Insurgents: Anti-communists Batistianos United States	Cuban government victory	Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado	Fidel Castro
Cuban invasion of Panama (1959)	Cuba Revolutionary Action Movement May 22nd Youth Revolutionary Movement	Panama United States Guatemala	Cuban expedition failed
Invasion of the Dominican Republic (1959)	Cuba	Dominican Republic	Cuban invasion failed
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)	Cuba	United States Cuban DRF	Cuban government victory US–Opposition failure to topple the Cuban government All surviving counter revolutionaries captured Increased cooperation between Cuba and the Soviet Union
Sand War (1963–1964)	Algeria Support: Egypt^[3] Cuba^[4]	Morocco Support: France^[5]	Military stalemate The closing of the border south of Figuig, Morocco/Béni Ounif, Algeria. Morocco abandoned its attempts to control Béchar and Tindouf after OAU mediation. Demilitarized zone established No territorial changes
Congo Crisis (1963-1965)	1963–1965: Kwilu and Simba rebels Supported by: Soviet Union China Cuba	1963–1965: Democratic Republic of the Congo United States Belgium Malaysia Supported by: ONUC (1964)	Defeat The Congo established as an independent unitary state under the authoritarian presidency of Mobutu Sese Seko.
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963–1974)	PAIGC Supported by: Soviet Union China Cuba North Korea Algeria Guinea Senegal	Portugal	Algiers Accord Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portugal
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla (1966–1967)	ELN Cuba	Bolivia United States Supported by: Brazil	Bolivian government victory Che Guevara executed
Machurucuto raid (1967)	Revolutionary Left Movement Cuban guerrillas Supported by: Cuba	Venezuelan National Guard Venezuelan Army	Venezuelan government victory
First Yemenite War (1972)	South Yemen Cuba	North Yemen	Status quo ante bellum
Yom Kippur War (1973)	Egypt Syria Expeditionary forces Saudi Arabia^[6] Algeria^[7] Jordan Libya Iraq Kuwait^[8] Tunisia Morocco^[9] Cuba North Korea^[10]^[11]	Israel	Defeat See § Aftermath At the final ceasefire: Egyptian forces held 1,200 km² (460 sq mi) on the eastern bank of the canal.^[12] Israeli forces held 1,600 km² (620 sq mi) on the western bank of the canal.^[13] Israeli forces held 500 km² (193 sq mi) of the Syrian Bashan region of the Golan Heights.
Operation Independence (1975-1977)	ERP Montoneros Supported by: Cuba^[14]^[15]^[16]	Argentina Supported by: United States^[17]^[18]^[19] Bolivia Brazil Chile Paraguay Uruguay	Argentine government victory	None
Cuban intervention in Angola (1975–1991)	Cuba MPLA Soviet Union^[20]^[21] SWAPO^[22]	UNITA FNLA (until 1978) South Africa FLEC	Stalemate Cuban and South African withdrawal in 1991	Fidel Castro
Ogaden War (1977–1978)	Ethiopia Cuba Soviet Union^[23] South Yemen^[24]	Somalia WSLF	Victory Soviet and Cuban intervention leads to Somali withdrawal^[25]^[26]^[27] Somalia breaks all ties with the Soviet Bloc and the Second World (except China and Romania).^[28] Beginning of the Somali Rebellion
Eritrean War of Independence (1977–1991)	1974 Ethiopian Empire 1974–1991 Derg (1974–1987) PDR Ethiopia (1987–1991) Military advisers: Soviet Union (1974–1990)^[29]^[30] Cuba (1974–1990)^[31] Israel (1990–1991)^[32]	ELF (until 1981) EPLF (since 1973) TPLF (since 1975)	EPLF victory^[33] ELF defeated by EPLF during the Eritrean Civil Wars EPLF overthrew the Derg regime Eritrea gains de facto independence from Ethiopia in 1991 under EPLF rule, and de jure independence after the referendum held in 1993 under UN auspices Independence of Eritrea Ethiopia becomes a landlocked country.
Ethiopian Civil War (1977–1991)	Ethiopia Cuba	EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM EDUP	Defeat Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government
Nicaraguan Revolution (1961-1990)	Sandinista National Liberation Front Junta of National Reconstruction/Nicaraguan Government (from 1979) Sandinista Popular Army MAP-ML (1978–1979) MILPAS Panama (1978–1979)^[34]^[35]^[36] Cuba Dirección de Inteligencia	Somoza regime (1961–1979) National Guard Contras (1981–1990) FDN UDN ARDE MILPAS Fifteenth of September Legion KISAN/YATAMA Supported by: United States CIA	Victory Cuban intelligence assistance to Sandinista.^[37] Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami in 1979.
Invasion of Grenada (1983)	Grenada Cuba	United States Grenadian Opposition Barbados Jamaica Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Defeat American occupation of Grenada		None
United States intervention in Venezuela (2026)	Venezuela Cuba	United States	Defeat President Nicolas Maduro extradited to the United States.^[38]	Miguel Díaz-Canel	Manuel Marrero Cruz