List of wars involving Lesotho

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 British expedition repulsed^[1]	Moshoeshoe I
First Free State–Basotho War (1858)	Basotho Kingdom	Orange Free State	Victory Boer invasion fails^[2]
Battle of Berea (1858)	Basotho Kingdom	United Kingdom	Inconclusive Peace treaty^[3]
Second Free State–Basotho War (1865–1866)	Basotho Kingdom	Orange Free State South African Republic	Defeat Basotho Kingdom cedes land^[4]
Third Free State–Basotho War (1867–1868)	Basotho Kingdom	Orange Free State	Defeat (but prevention of total Boer conquest) Basutoland becomes a British protectorate^[4]
Morosi's Rebellion (1879)	Basotho Kingdom United Kingdom	Baphuthi rebels	Victory Uprising suppressed^[5]	Letsie I
Basuto Gun War (1880–1881)	Basotho rebels	United Kingdom	Victory Final settlement in favor of the Basotho^[6]	Letsie I
BCP Uprising (1974)	Government of Lesotho	BCP	Government victory Uprising suppressed	Moshoeshoe II
LLA Guerilla War (1979–1990)	Government of Lesotho	LLA	Peace treaty Elections held in 1993, BCP wins	Moshoeshoe II
SADC intervention in Lesotho (1998)	South Africa Botswana	LDF rebels	SADC victory Suspected coup d'état in Lesotho quelled	Letsie III

References[edit]

^ Sanders, Peter (1975). Moshoeshoe, chief of the Sotho. Heinemann. pp. 171–174. ISBN 978-0435327934.
^ "Basotho Wars (1858-68)". Global Security. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
^ "BOTCHED ORDERS OR INSUBORDINATION? The battle of Berea revisited". The South African Military History Society. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Basotho Wars (1858-68)". South African History Online. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
^ Tylden, Geoffrey (1936). "The capture of Morosi's Mountain, 1879". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 15: 208–15.
^ "BASUTOLAND ROLL OF HONOUR 1851 - 1881 - South African Military History Society - Journal". samilitaryhistory.org.

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