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List of wars involving New Zealand

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This might be a list of wars involving New Zealand. New Zealand has participated in many armed conflicts, often alongside its allies such as the United Kingdom.

  New Zealand victory
  New Zealand defeat
  Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive)
  Ongoing conflict

List

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Colonial New Zealand (1841–1907)

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Conflict New Zealand Opposing Combatant Result

Casualties

Flagstaff War (1845–1846)
The bombardment of Ruapekapeka, January 1846.
 British Empire

Māori Kupapa

Māori Inconclusive
  • Kawiti and Heke's rebellion defeated
  • British claimed a tactical victory
  • British negotiate peace with Kawiti in 1846
  • British negotiate peace with Heke in 1848.

60–94 killed

First Taranaki War (1860–1861)
British troops defending their positions during the Battle of Waireka.
 British Empire Taranaki Māori
Kīngitanga
Ceasefire
  • Truce agreed to after the surrender of the Te Ārei
  • Waikato Invasion plans made[1]
  • Māori remained in possession of the European-owned

Tātaraimaka

200 killed and wounded

Second Taranaki War

(1863–1866)

 British Empire Taranaki Māori Inconclusive
  • Tribes either surrendered or withdrew towards the mountain.

~34 killed

Waikato Wars (1863–1864)
Ngāti Maniapoto survivors of the war, at the jubilee gathering on the battlefield of Orakau, 1 April 1914. All but Hekiera shared in the defence of Orakau pa, and fought through to the Puniu River in the retreat.
 British Empire Kīngitanga

North Island allies

Victory

1000 killed and wounded

East Cape War

(1865–1866)

 British Empire

Arawa

Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Kahungunu

Whakatohea Māori

Urewera Māori

Ngai Tama Māori

Victory

35 killed

Titokowaru's War (1868–1869)
The death of Gustavus von Tempsky at Te Ngutu o Te Manu by Tītokowaru's forces.
 British Empire

Māori Kupapa

Ngāti Ruanui Iwi

Ngāruahine tribes

Victory
  • Ngāti Ruanui and Ngaruahine withdrawal

11 killed

Te Kooti's War (1868–1872)
Poverty Bay Massacre (Battles of the nineteenth century, no. 3, 1901).
 British Empire

Māori Kupapa

Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Kahungunu

Māori Iwis

Ringatū adherents
Pai Mārire adherents

Victory

~60 killed

Second Boer War
(1899–1902)
The first contingent of New Zealand soldiers embarking for South Africa, October 1899.
 British Empire  Orange Free State
 South African Republic
Victory
  • British sovereignty over the Orange Free State and the Transvaal in accordance with the Treaty of Vereeniging

230 killed

Boxer Rebellion
(1900–1901)
 British Empire

 Japan
 Russia
France France
 United States
 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Italy

Yihetuan
 Qing China
Victory

Boxer Protocol:

  • Anti-foreign societies banned in China

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New Zealand (1907–Present)

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Conflict New Zealand Opposing Combatant Result

Casualties

World War I
(1914–1918)
New Zealand WWI Troops in Trench - Front line of the Somme.
 France
 British Empire

 Russia
 United States
 Italy
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Belgium
 Japan
 China
 Romania
 Portugal
 Brazil
Hejaz
 Greece
Armenia Armenia
Saudi Arabia Nejd and Hasa
Thailand Siam

 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria
Victory

16,711 to 18,060 killed

Armenian–Azerbaijani War
(1918–1920)
Armenia FR Armenia
Armenia RM Armenia
 British Empire

Centrocaspian Dictatorship

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan
 Ottoman Empire
 Russian SFSR
Turkey Turkish Revolutionaries
Azerbaijan SSR
Defeat
  • Sovietization of Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Disputes over Karabakh and Nakhichevan settled in favor of Soviet Azerbaijan
  • Zangezur gained by Soviet Armenia

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World War II
(1939–1945)
Members of the 28th Battalion performing a haka, Egypt (July 1941).
 United States
 Soviet Union
 United Kingdom
 China
France France
Poland Poland
 Yugoslavia
 Greece
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Luxembourg
 Denmark
 Norway
 Czechoslovakia
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
Philippines
 Ethiopia
 Brazil
 Mexico
 Mongolia
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
 Slovakia
 Croatia
 Finland
 Iraq
 Thailand
Victory

11,700 killed

Malayan Emergency
(1948–1960)
 United Kingdom

 Australia
 New Zealand

MCP Victory

15 killed

Korean War
(1950–1953)
New Zealand gunners providing artillery support for Australian forces across the Imjin River, April 1951.
 South Korea
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Turkey
 Philippines
 Thailand
 Ethiopia
 Greece
 France
 Colombia
 Belgium
 South Africa
 Netherlands
 Luxembourg
 North Korea
 China
 Soviet Union
Ceasefire

45 killed

Borneo Confrontation
(1963–1966)
 Malaysia
 Singapore
 United Kingdom
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Indonesia Victory

12 killed

Vietnam War
(1965–1973)
New Zealand soldier with an Australian M113 in South Vietnam during 1968.
 South Vietnam
 United States
 South Korea
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Thailand
 Philippines
 Laos
Cambodia Cambodia
Cambodia Khmer Republic
 North Vietnam
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam Viet Cong
Laos Pathet Lao
Cambodia Khmer Rouge
 China
 Soviet Union
 North Korea
Defeat

37 killed

Gulf War
(1990–1991)
 Kuwait
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Saudi Arabia
 France
 Canada
 Egypt
 Syria
 Qatar
 New Zealand
 Iraq Victory

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War in Afghanistan
(2001–2021)
Two members of the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team provide security in Shebar district, Bamyan province, July 23.
 Afghanistan
ISAF
Afghanistan Taliban
al-Qaeda
IMU
HI-Gulbuddin
HI-Khalis
Haqqani network
Lashkar-e-Taiba
JeM
ETIM
Afghanistan TTP
IEW
Afghanistan TNSM
IJU
 Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Defeat

10 killed

Iraq War
(2003–2004)
 Iraq
 Iraqi Kurdistan
 United States
 United Kingdom
 South Korea
 Italy
 Poland
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Georgia
 Ukraine
 Netherlands
 Spain
 Romania
 Bulgaria
 Denmark
 Thailand
Iraq SCJL
Iraq Naqshbandi Army
ISI
al-Qaeda
Ansar al-Islam
IAI
Mahdi Army
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Hezbollah
 Ba'athist Iraq
Victory

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East Timorese Crisis
(2006–2013)
A New Zealand ISF soldier patrols Dili on polling day. Support for candidate Horta is displayed in background.
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Malaysia
 Portugal
 East Timor
East Timor FTDL Rebels Victory
  • Violence ends

5 killed

War on ISIL
(2014–present)
 United States
 Iraq
 United Kingdom
 Canada
 Jordan
 Morocco
 Australia
 Belgium
 Denmark
 France
 Germany
 Italy
 Netherlands
 New Zealand
 Norway
 Portugal
 Spain
 Bahrain
 Saudi Arabia
 United Arab Emirates
 Egypt
 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Boko Haram

al-Qaeda

Ongoing
  • Coalition airstrikes on ISIL and al-Qaeda affiliates positions in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Nigeria
  • Multinational humanitarian effort conducted by various nations.
  • ISIL loses 30% of its territory in Iraq
  • Over 350 Christians are in ISIL captivity.
  • Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Syria flee from their homes to escape advancing ISIL forces.
  • Thousands of Syrian and Iraqi civilians killed by ISIL forces.
  • Boko Haram joins ISIL, establishing a presence in Nigeria and surrounding African countries.
  • Arming and support for Iraq and the Syrian Opposition along with various militias opposed to ISIL.
  • ISIL controls over 50% of Syria by May 2015.
  • ISIL presence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and the Philippines.

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Belich, James (1986). The New Zealand Wars. Auckland: Penguin. pp. 119–125. ISBN 0-14-027504-5.
  2. ^ Michael King (2003). The Penguin History of New Zealand. Penguin Books. p. 214. ISBN 0-14-301867-1.
  3. ^ Dalton, B.J. (1967). War and Politics in New Zealand 1855–1870. Sydney: Sydney University Press. pp. 176–179.
  4. ^ King, Michael (1977). Te Puea: A Life. Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited (published 2013). ISBN 9781742539683. Retrieved 13 January 2021. The 'fertile and most beautiful fields' [...] and the river itself [...] provided the incentive and the means for an invasion of the Waikato. Auckland was swelling with new settlers; government ministers and land purchase officers were determined to acquire the fruitful acreage south of the city; the fact that it was controlled by a movement pledged not to sell land damned the Kingites in the eyes of most Europeans [...].
  5. ^ "Sectarian divisions change Baghdad's image". NBC News. 3 July 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2007.
  6. ^ Michael Petrou (9 September 2011). "The decline of al-Qaeda". Maclean's. George W. Bush gambled on surging thousands more troops to the embattled country. It paid off. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is now a diminished force without territory.
  7. ^ Spencer C. Tucker (14 December 2015). U.S. Conflicts in the 21st Century: Afghanistan War, Iraq War, and the War on Terror. ISBN 978-1440838798. Al Qaeda in Iraq was decimated by the end of the Iraq War in 2011