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This is a list of wars involving Sri Lanka.

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Conflict	Sri Lanka and allies	Opponents	Results	Sri Lankan commanders		Sri Lankan losses
Conflict	Sri Lanka and allies	Opponents	Results	King	General	SL forces	Civilians
Anuradhapura Kingdom
Battle of Vijithapura (162 or 161 BC)	Anuradhapura Kingdom	Elara	Victory	Dutugamunu		Unknown	Unknown
Anuradhapurian invasion of Chola (120)	Anuradhapura Kingdom	Chola dynasty		Gajabahu I		Unknown	Unknown
Anuradhapura invasion of Pandya (853)	Anuradhapura Kingdom			Sena I Sena II	General Kuttaka	Unknown	Unknown
Anuradhapura invasion of Pandya (917)	Anuradhapura Kingdom	Pandyan Dynasty		Kassapa IV		Unknown	Unknown
(946)	Anuradhapura Kingdom			Dappula V	General Viduragga	Unknown	Unknown
Chola rule in Sri Lanka (993)	Anuradhapura Kingdom	Chola dynasty	Defeat	Mahinda V		Unknown	Unknown
Polonnaruwa Kingdom
Polonnaruwa–Pagan War (1164–1165)	Polonnaruwa Kingdom	Pagan Kingdom	Victory	Parakramabahu I		Unknown	Unknown
Chola invasion of Pandya (1167–1183)	Polonnaruwa Kingdom Pandyan Dynasty	Chola dynasty	Victory	Parakramabahu I	Lankapura Dandanatha	Unknown	Unknown
Kingdom of Kotte
Ming–Kotte War (1410 or 1411)	Kingdom of Kotte	Ming Dynasty	Defeat	Alagakkonara
Kingdom of Sitawaka
Sinhalese–Portuguese War (1538-1640)	Kingdom of Sitawaka Kingdom of Kandy Dutch East India Company	Portuguese Empire Lascarins Kingdom of Kotte	Victory	Various	Various	?	?
Jaffna Kingdom
Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom (1619)	Jaffna Kingdom Kingdom of Kandy Supported by: Thanjavur Nayak kingdom	Portuguese Empire	Defeat Cankili II imprisoned and executed by Portuguese 11 February 1621: Tamils sovereignty ended	Cankili II		Unknown	Unknown
Chiefdom of Vanni (Vanni Bandara)
Vanniyar Rebellion (1782)	Chiefdom of Vanni Kingdom of Kandy	Dutch Republic	Victory Vanni region liberated from Dutch rule	Pandara Vanniyan		Unknown	Unknown
British Expedition to Ceylon (1803)	Chiefdom of Vanni Kingdom of Kandy	Dutch Republic British Empire	Defeat Vanni region lost to the British The last Tamil resistance against colonial rule was crushed.	Pandara Vanniyan		Unknown	Unknown
Kingdom of Kandy
Dutch–Portuguese War (1602–1663)	Kingdom of Kandy Dutch Republic Kingdom of England (until 1640) Johor Sultanate Kingdom of Kongo Kingdom of Ndongo Rio Grande Tupis Nhandui Tarairiu Tribe	Kingdom of Portugal Supported by: Crown of Castile (until 1640) Kingdom of Cochin Potiguara Tupis	Treaty of Hague Formation of the Dutch Empire Portuguese Restoration War Portuguese victory in South America and Africa Dutch victory in the East	Senarat Rajasinghe II	?	?	?
British Expedition to Ceylon (1803-1804)	Kingdom of Kandy	British Empire	Defeat	?	?	?	?
Kandyan Wars (1796–1818)	Kingdom of Kandy	British Empire	Defeat Victory of the British forces Effectively ending the 2357 years old independence of the Sinhalese	Sri Vikrama Rajasinha	?	?	?

British Ceylon

Conflict	Ceylon and allies	Opponents	Results	Governor(s)	Ceylonese losses
Conflict	Ceylon and allies	Opponents	Results	Governor(s)	Ceylon forces	Civilians
Matale Rebellion (1848)	British Ceylon	Kandyan Opposition	Victory	The Viscount Torrington	?	?
Second Boer War (1899–1902)	British Ceylon British Empire United Kingdom British Cape Colony Natal Colony Rhodesia India Australia Before federation Canada New Zealand	Orange Free State South African Republic Foreign volunteers from: Netherlands German Empire Belgium France United States Italy Russian Empire Russian Poland Sweden Denmark	Victory Treaty of Vereeniging: All Boers to surrender arms and swear allegiance to the Crown Dutch language permitted in education Promise to grant Boer republics self-government £3,000,000 compensation "reconstruction aid" to Afrikaners	West Ridgeway	?	?
World War I (1914–1918)	The Allies British Ceylon India Dominion of Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa Newfoundland Belgium France Greece Portugal Romania Russia Italy Japan United States Serbia Montenegro	Central Powers and Allies Austria-Hungary Germany German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria	Victory Treaty of Versailles: German demobilization Treaties of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Trianon: Demise of Austria-Hungary Russia pulls out in 1917 Russian Civil War Creation of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin Rises to power Creation of League of Nations: Mesopotamia ceded from the Ottoman Empire Palestine and Jordan ceded from the Ottoman Empire Tanganyika ceded from Germany Part of Kamerun ceded from Germany Part of Togoland ceded from Germany German New Guinea ceded to Australia German Samoa ceded to New Zealand German South-West Africa ceded to South Africa	Robert Chalmers Reginald Edward Stubbs John Anderson Reginald Edward Stubbs William Manning	?	?
World War II (1931–1945)	The Allies British Ceylon France Poland Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Norway Greece Yugoslavia Soviet Union United States Canada Australia New Zealand India Nepal South Africa Brazil China	Axis Powers Germany Italy Hungary Japan Bulgaria Croatia Romania Manchukuo Mengjiang Finland Thailand Vichy France	Victory End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations.	Graeme Thomson Francis Graeme Tyrrell Reginald Edward Stubbs Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn Andrew Caldecott Henry Monck-Mason Moore	?	?

Sri Lanka

Conflict	Sri Lanka and allies	Opponents	Results	Sri Lankan commanders		Sri Lankan losses
Conflict	Sri Lanka and allies	Opponents	Results	Head(s) of Government	Defense Minister(s)	SL forces	Civilians
1971 JVP Insurrection (1971)	Sri Lanka	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	Victory Rebel forces surrender Ceylonese government reestablishes control over entire island	Sirimavo Bandaranaike		53	1,200
1987–89 JVP Insurrection (1987–1989)	Sri Lanka	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	Victory	J. R. Jayewardene		?	?
Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)	Sri Lanka India Supported by: China Pakistan United States^[1]	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam	Victory Sri Lankan government decisive victory Rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organisation is wiped out Sri Lankan government reestablishes control over entire island Tamil National Alliance drops the demand for a separate state	J. R. Jayewardene Ranasinghe Premadasa † Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Chandrika Kumaratunga Mahinda Rajapaksa	Ranasinghe Premadasa Ranjan Wijeratne Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Tilak Marapana Mahinda Rajapaksa	23,327	60,000–100,000

Peacekeeping

Conflict	Sri Lanka and allies	Country	Results	Sri Lankan commanders		Sri Lankan losses
Conflict	Sri Lanka and allies	Country	Results	Head(s) of Government	Defense Minister(s)	Sri Lankan losses
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1978–Present)	Sri Lanka	Lebanon	Ongoing	J. R. Jayewardene		0
United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (2004–Present)	Sri Lanka	Haiti	Ongoing	Chandrika Kumaratunga		?
United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (2007–2010)	Sri Lanka	Central African Republic Chad	Ended	Mahinda Rajapaksa		?

References

↑ "Defeating Terrorism - Why the Tamil Tigers Lost Eelam And How Sri Lanka Won the War". jinsa.org. Retrieved 11 March 2011.

Major armed conflicts involving the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka

Internal	1971 JVP Insurrection 1987–89 JVP Insurrection Sri Lankan Civil War

International	Battle of Vijithapura Ming–Kotte War Kotte conquest of the Jaffna Kingdom Sinhalese–Portuguese War Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom Dutch–Portuguese War British Expedition to Ceylon Kandyan Wars (Great Rebellion of 1817–18) Matale Rebellion Second Boer War World War I World War II

Peacekeeping	United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon

Related articles	Military history Ceylon in World War II

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States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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