Listed articles should describe the actual conduct of a war.
| Dates |
Country |
Result |
| 1954-1962 |
Algerian War of Independence |
Independence of Algeria from France |
| 1775-1783 |
American Revolution |
Independence of United States from Great Britain |
| 1961-1989 |
Angolan War of Independence |
Independence of Angola from Portugal |
| 1916-1918 |
Arab Revolt |
Defeat of Arab aspirations for independence by post-World War I partition of Arab Ottoman Empire lands into protectorates controlled by United Kingdom and France |
| 1971 |
Bangladesh War of Independence |
Independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan |
| 1830-1839 |
Belgian Revolution |
Independence of Belgium from the Netherlands |
| 1810-1818 |
Chilean War of Independence |
Independence of Chile from Spain |
| 1991-1995 |
Croatian War of Independence |
Independence of Croatia from Yugoslavia |
| 1843-1849 |
Dominican War of Independence |
Independence of Dominican Republic from Haiti |
| 1568-1648 |
Dutch War of Independence |
Independence of the Netherlands from Spain |
| 1918-1920 |
Estonian War of Independence |
Independence of Estonia from Russia/Soviet Union |
| 1961-1991 |
Eritrean War of Independence |
Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia |
| 1857-1858 |
First War Of Indian Independence |
Defeat of Indian insurgents; Great Britain retains control of India |
| 1946-1954 |
First Indochina War |
Independence of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia from France; partition of Vietnam |
| 1804-1813 |
First Serbian Uprising |
Defeat of insurgents; Ottoman Empire retains control of Serbia |
| 1821-1827 |
Greek War of Independence |
Independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire |
| 1963-1974 |
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence |
Independence of Guinea-Bissau from Portugal |
| 1791-1804 |
Haitian Revolution |
Independence of Haiti from France |
| 1703-1711 |
Hungarian independence |
Limited autonomy for Hungary within the Habsburg Monarchy |
| 1919-1921 |
Irish independence |
Partition of Ireland; independence of the Republic of Ireland from United Kingdom |
| 1947-1949 |
Israeli War of Independence |
Defeat of Arabs; Israel retains independence |
| 1918-1920 |
Latvian War of Independence |
Independence of Latvia from Russia/Soviet Union |
| 1952-1960 |
Mau Mau Uprising |
Defeat of insurgents; United Kingdom retains control of Kenya |
| 1964-1974 |
Mozambican War of Independence |
Independence of Mozambique from Portugal |
| 1966-1988 |
Namibian War of Independence |
Independence of Namibia from South Africa |
| 1936-1939 |
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Palestinian War of independence |
| 1810-1816 |
Patria Boba |
Defeat of insurgents; Spain retains control of Colombia |
| 1896-1898 |
Philippine Revolution |
Inconclusive; Philippines independence from Spain then achieved by Spanish-American War |
| 1899-1913 |
Philippine-American War |
Defeat of Philippine insurgents; United States retains control of the Philippines |
| 1640–1668 |
Portuguese Restoration War |
Independence of Portugal from Spain |
| 1863-1865 |
Polish War of Independence |
Defeat of Polish insurgents; Russia retains control of Poland |
| 1920-1926 |
Rif War |
Defeat of insurgents and Rif Republic; Spain retains control of Spanish Morocco |
| 1877 |
Romanian War of Independence |
Independence of Romania from the Ottoman Empire |
| 1808-1814 |
Peninsular War |
Independence of Spain from France |
| 1296-1357 |
Scottish Wars of Independence |
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| 1815-1817 |
Second Serbian Uprising |
Semi-independence of Serbia within the Ottoman Empire |
| 1810s-1820s |
Latin American wars of independence, Argentine War of Independence, Bolivian War of Independence, Chilean War of Independence, Patria Boba (Colombia), Ecuadorian War of Independence, Mexican War of Independence, History_of_Paraguay#Independence, Peruvian War of Independence, Venezuelan War of Independence |
Independence of many Spanish-American colonies from Spain |
| 1821-1825 |
Brazilian Declaration of Independence |
Independence of Brazil from Portugal |
| 1868-1878 |
Ten Years' War |
Defeat of insurgents; Spain retains control of Cuba |
| 1919-1923 |
Turkish War of Independence |
Creation of Republic of Turkey |
| 1835-1836 |
Texas Revolution |
Independence of Texas from Mexico |
| 1917-1921 |
Ukrainian War of Independence |
Independence of Ukraine from Russia; partition of Ukraine by Soviet Union, Poland and Romania |
| 1959-1975 |
Vietnam War |
Unification of Vietnam by North Vietnam; United States withdrawal from South Vietnam |
