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This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Belgium and its colonial empire.

Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents (excluding Belgium) Outcome
Verbündete Enemies
1789 1790 Brabant Revolution United Belgian States Holy Roman Empire Habsburg Austria Austrian victory
  • Revolution suppressed
1830 1839 Belgian Revolution Belgian rebels

Frankreich Frankreich

 United Kingdom of the Netherlands Treaty of London:
  • Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium
1832 1834 Liberal Wars Portugal Portugal

 Vereinigtes Königreich
Frankreich Frankreich
Spanien Spanien

Portugal Miguelites
Liberal victory, Constitutional monarchy is restored
1861 1867 French intervention in Mexico Mexiko Mexican Empire

Frankreich Frankreich
 Austrian Empire
 Spanien
 Vereinigtes Königreich
Egypt Eyalet
Polish Revolutionaries

Mexiko United Mexican States

United States of America (entered in 1865)

French withdrawal, Republican victory
1881 1899 Mahdist War  British Empire
 Kingdom of Italy
Congo Free State Congo Free State
Ethiopian Empire
Sudan Mahdist Sudanese Anglo-Egyptian victory
1891 1892 Stairs Expedition to Katanga Congo Free State Congo Free State
supported by:
 Belgien
Yeke state of Msiri Congo Free State victory
  • Msiri killed, Mukanda-Bantu becomes vassal prince
  • Belgium acquires the colony of Katanga
1892 1894 Belgo-Arab War Congo Free State Congo Free State Zanzibari slave traders Congo Free State victory
1895 1895 Luba rebellion Congo Free State Congo Free State
supported by:
 Belgien
Luba rebels Congo Free State victory
  • Many Luba men had to perform forced labour in the Katanga mines[1]
1895 1908 Batetela Rebellions Congo Free State Congo Free State
Batetela people
Congo Free State victory
1905 1917 Kasongo Nyembo rebellion[1] Congo Free State Congo Free State (until 1908)
 Belgien
Luba rebels led by Kasongo Nyembo Belgian victory
1914 1918 World War I Verbündete:

Frankreich Frankreich
 British Empire
 Russian Empire (1914–17)
 Vereinigte Staaten (1917–18)
and others

Central Powers

 German Empire
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Kingdom of Bulgaria (1915–18)

Allied victory
1914 1918 East African campaign
(part of World War I)
Verbündete:

 Vereinigtes Königreich

 Belgien

 Portugal

Central Powers

 German Empire

Allied victory
10 May
1940
28 May
1940
Battle of Belgium

(part of World War II)

 Belgien
Frankreich Frankreich

 British Empire
 Niederlande
 Luxemburg

 Nazi Germany Belgian surrender and German occupation of Belgium
1940 1945 World War II Verbündete Axis powers Allied victory
1950 1953 Korean War  United Nations (UN Resolution 84)  North Korea

 China
 Soviet Union

Ceasefire
1959 1962 Rwandan Revolution Independence of the Republic of Rwanda
Independence of the Kingdom of Burundi
1960 1966 Congo Crisis  Katanga

 South Kasai

Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)

 United Nations (United Nations Operation in the Congo)

Withdrawal of Belgian Armed Forces
1978 1978 Shaba II  Zaire

 Frankreich
 Vereinigte Staaten

Front for the National Liberation of the Congo Franco-Belgian victory
1990 1991 Gulf War Coalition forces Ba'athist Iraq Coalition victory
1991 2003 Iraqi no-fly zones  Vereinigte Staaten
 Vereinigtes Königreich
 Frankreich (1991–1998)
 Australien
 Niederlande
 Saudi-Arabien
 Türkei
 Italien
Ba'athist Iraq Coalition victory
1992 1995 Somali Civil War  Vereinigte Staaten
 Vereinigtes Königreich
 Spanien
 Saudi-Arabien
 Malaysia
 Pakistan
 Italien
 Indien
 Griechenland
 Deutschland
 Frankreich
 Kanada
 Botswana
 Australien
Somalia United Somali Congress Victory
  • UN humanitarian mandate fulfilled.
  • About 100,000 lives were saved by outside resistance.
  • Civil war is ongoing.
1998 1999 Kosovo War Kosovo Liberation Army

 Albanien
NATO NATO force

 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia NATO victory
2001 2021 War in Afghanistan  Afghanistan

 Vereinigte Staaten
ISAF

Afghanistan Taliban Fall of Taliban régime

Ongoing Taliban insurgency

2011 2011 military intervention in Libya Libyen National Transitional Council

 NATO forces

Libyen Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Fall of Gaddafi régime
2014 ongoing 2014 military intervention against ISIS  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Ongoing

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Appiah, Anthony; Henry Louis Gates (2005). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Volume 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 656. ISBN 9780195170559. Retrieved 5 August 2020.