Chronology of Major Guerrilla Wars

(Including general wars in which guerrilla operations played a significant role)

(Including general wars in which guerrilla operations played a significant role)
United States War of Independence 1775-1783
Vendee 1792-1796
South Italy (Ruffo) 1799
Spain 1809-1812
Tyrol 1809
Russia 1812
Latin America (Wars of Independence) ca. 1810-1821
Greece 1821-1832
Carlist Wars 1834-1839
Poland 1831, 1863
North Africa (Abd el-Kader) 1830-1847
Caucasus (Shamyl) 1834-1859
Italy 1848-1849 etc.
Colonial Wars Such As:
   Anglo-Burmese Wars 1824-1826,1852,1885
   Sikh Wars 1845-1849
   Maori Wars 1845-1870
   Kaffir War 1851-1852
   Ashanti Wars 1863-1874
   Bhutan 1865
   Zulu War 1879
   Sudan 1883-1885
   Tonkin Uprisings 1883-1895
   Madagascar 1884,1895
   Waziristan 1919-1923
American Indian Wars 1850-1890
Russia in Central Asia 1837-1884
Taiping Rebellion 1851-1865
United States War of Secession 1861-1865
Mexico 1862-1867
Cuba 1868-1878,1895-1898
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871
Bosnia 1878-1879
Macedonia (IMRO) 1893-1934
Boer War 1899-1902
Philippines 1899-1902
Mexico 1911-1919
East Africa (Lettow-Vorbeck) 1914-1918
Ireland 1916,1919-1922
Arabia (Lawrence) 1916-1917
Russian Civil War 1918-1921
Soviet Union (Basmatchis) 1919-1930
North Africa (Abd el-Krim) 1921-1927
Brazil (Prestes) 1926-1927
Nicaragua (Sondino) 1927-1933
China 1927-1945
Palestine 1936-1939
Second World War:
   Soviet Union 1941-1944
   Yugoslavia 1941-1945
   Albania 1941-1944
   Poland 1944
   Slovakia 1944
   Greece 1942-1944
   France 1941-1944
   Italy 1943-1944
Palestine 1944-1948
Iraq (Kurds) 1945-1975
Philippines (Huk) 1946-1956,1972-
Vietnam 1946-1952
Burma 1947-
Greek Civil War 1947-1949
Indonesia 1947-1949
Malaya 1948-1956
Mau Mau (Kenya Emergency) 1952-1956
Algeria 1954-1960
Sudan 1955-1972
Cyprus 1955-1959
Cuba 1957-1959
Eritrea 1958-
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia 1959-1975
Angola 1961-1975
Mozambique 1961-1975
Venezuela 1962-1965
Peru 1962-1965
Guinea-Bissau 1963-1974
Rhodesia 1963-
Guatemala 1964-1967
Colombia 1964-
Chad 1965-
Israel 1965-
Oman 1965-
Thailand 1965
Brazil 1968-1970
Uruguay 1968-1972
India (Naxalites) 1969-1972
Ulster 1969-
Argentina 1972-