Significant1855 – 1857 · 2 years

Filibuster War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Nicaragua · Honduras · Cuba · Costa Rica

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Central American coalition war against William Walker's filibuster regime in Nicaragua.

Belligerents6

Filibusters
American Filibusters
Legitimists
Central American Allies
Guatemala
Nicaragua

Conflict graph

PART OFCentral American national wars (1823–1907)

SUB-CONFLICTS · 11

Battle of Granada, Nicaragua1855
Battle of La Virgen1855
Battle of Rivas1855
Battle of Granada, Nicaragua1856
Battle of Masaguara1856
Battle of Masaya1856
Battle of Rivas1856
Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua1856
Battle of Santa Rosa de Copan1856
Battle of Rivas1857
Battle of San Jorge1857

Sources

Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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