List of wars involving Lesotho
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This is a list of wars involving Lesotho and its processing states.
| Conflict | Lesotho and allies |
Opponents | Results | Monarch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle of Viervoet (1851) |
Basotho Kingdom |  United Kingdom |
Victory
|
|
| First Free State–Basotho War (1858) |
Basotho Kingdom |  Orange Free State |
Victory
| |
| Battle of Berea (1858) |
Basotho Kingdom | United Kingdom |
Inconclusive
| |
| Second Free State–Basotho War (1865–1866) |
Basotho Kingdom | Orange Free State South African Republic |
Defeat
| |
| Third Free State–Basotho War (1867–1868) |
Basotho Kingdom | Orange Free State |
Defeat (but prevention of total Boer conquest)
| |
| Morosi's Rebellion (1879) |
Basotho Kingdom United Kingdom |
Baphuthi rebels | Victory
|
|
| Basuto Gun War (1880–1881) |
Basotho rebels | United Kingdom |
Victory
|
|
| BCP Uprising (1974) |
 Government of Lesotho |
BCP |
Government victory
|
|
| LLA Guerilla War (1979–1990) |
Government of Lesotho |
LLA |
Peace treaty
| |
| SADC intervention in Lesotho (1998) |
 South Africa Botswana |
 LDF rebels |
SADC victory
|