Regional1955

Battle of Santa Rosa de Copan

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Honduras

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Santa Rosa de Copan (1955). Costa Rican Conservatives defeated Costa Rican Christian Socialists. Part of the 1955 Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica, not the 1948 civil war.

Belligerents2

Costa Rican Conservatives
Costa Rican Christian Socialists

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Santa Rosa de Copan (1955). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-santa-rosa-de-copan-1955 · Sources & methodology