List of wars involving Thailand explained

This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of Thailand, its predecessor states, and by Siamese people, from antiquity to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside Thailand by the Thai military.

Ayutthaya Kingdom

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Ayutthaya–Lan Na War (1441–1474)^[2] Location: Northern Ayutthaya, Southern Lan Na	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Kingdom of Lanna	Stalemate
Burmese–Siamese War (1547–1549)Location: Upper Tenessarim coast, western and central Siam	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Toungoo dynasty	Siamese defensive victory The Burmese command decided to withdraw Burma claims to regain Upper Tenasserim down to Tavoy (Dawei)
Burmese–Siamese War (1563–1564)Location: Ayutthaya, Phitsanulok, Sukhothai	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Toungoo dynasty Vassal Lan Na Vassal Sukhothai	Burmese victory Ayutthaya becomes a Burmese vassal state
	Ayutthaya Kingdom Kingdom of Lan Xang	Toungoo dynasty Vassal Sukhothai	Burmese victory Ayutthaya remains a Burmese vassal state
Burmese–Siamese War (1584–1593)Location: Ayutthaya Kingdom and lower Tanintharyi Region	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Toungoo dynasty	Siamese victory Siam regains independence
Siamese–Cambodian War (1591–1594)Location: Cambodia	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Cambodia Kingdom	Siamese victory Siamese sack of Longvek
Burmese–Siamese War (1593–1600)Location: Southern and Central Myanmar	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Toungoo dynasty	Siamese victory Siamese controlled the entire Tenasserim coast Lan Na becomes Siamese vassal from 1602 to 1614
	Ayutthaya Kingdom		Burmese victory Burma regains upper Tenasserim coast to Tavoy
Spanish-Siam War(1624–1636)^[3] ^[4] ^[5]	Ayutthaya Kingdom Dutch East India Company	Iberian Union Crown of Castile Spanish East Indies Council of Portugal Macau Goa Malacca	Siamese victory Dutch hegemony on Southeast Asia 150 Spaniards killed
	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Toungoo dynasty	Inconclusive Burma defends upper Burma Status quo ante bellum
Burmese–Siamese War (1675–1676)Location: Tenasserim coast	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Toungoo dynasty	Military stalemate Burma defends upper Tenasserim coast Siam defeats counter Burmese invasion
	Ayutthaya Kingdom	England East India Company	Inconclusive East India Company fails to blockade the port of Mergui The ports of Siam were closed to East India Company vessels until 1708 The East India had resumed trade using foreign-flagged vessels as early as 1705
	Ayutthaya Kingdom Supported by: : Dutch East India Company	French East India Company	Decisive Siamese victory French negotiated retreat
Burmese–Siamese War (1700–1701)Location: Ayutthaya Kingdom	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Toungoo dynasty	Siamese defensive victory Siam defeats Burmese invasion
Siamese–Vietnamese War (1717)^[6] ^[7] Location: Cambodia	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Nguyễn lords	Siamese victory Siam gains suzerainty of Cambodia Vietnam annexes several border provinces of Cambodia
Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760)Location: Tenasserim, Siam	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Konbaung dynasty	Inconclusive Burma captures the Tennasserim coast down to Tavoy–Mergui frontier
Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)Location: Tenasserim coast, Gulf of Siam coast, Suphanburi, Ayutthaya	Ayutthaya Kingdom	Konbaung dynasty	Burmese victory End of Ayutthaya Kingdom

Rattanakosin Kingdom

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Siamese–Vietnamese War (1784–1785)Location: Rạch Gầm River and Xoài Mút River, Southern Vietnam	Rattanakosin Kingdom Cambodia Nguyễn lords Hà Tiên Protectorate	Tây Sơn	Decisive Tây Sơn Victory
Burmese–Siamese War (1785–1786)Location: Western Siam	Rattanakosin Kingdom	Konbaung dynasty	Siamese victory Siam gains control of Chiang Mai and Lanna
Tavoy campaign (1788)Location:Tenasserim Coast	Rattanakosin Kingdom	Konbaung dynasty	Burmese defensive victory
Burmese–Siamese War (1792–1794)Location:Tenasserim Coast	Rattanakosin Kingdom	Konbaung dynasty	Burmese defensive victory
Burmese–Siamese War (1797–1798)Location: Lanna Kingdom, Northern Thailand	Rattanakosin Kingdom Lanna Kingdom Kingdom of Vientiane	Konbaung dynasty	Siamese victory
Burmese–Siamese War (1802–1805)Location: Lanna Kingdom, Northern Thailand	Rattanakosin Kingdom Lanna Kingdom Kingdom of Vientiane	Konbaung dynasty	Siamese victory Siam gains control of Chiang Saen
Burmese–Siamese War (1809–1812)Location: Phuket	Rattanakosin Kingdom	Konbaung dynasty	Siamese victory Siam successfully defends Phuket from a Burmese invasion Tenasserim Coast is depopulated
Cambodian rebellion (1811–1812)Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam	Cambodian pro-Siamese faction Rattanakosin Kingdom	Cambodian pro-Vietnamese faction Nguyễn dynasty	Cambodian pro-Vietnamese faction victoryVietnamese forces restore Ang Chan to the Cambodian throne
Siamese invasion of Kedah (1821)Location: Kedah	Rattanakosin Kingdom	Kedah Sultanate	Siamese victory Exile of Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah II^[12] Imposition of direct Siamese rule on Kedah Start of the Kedahan resistance^[13]
First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826)Location: Burma, East Bengal, Manipur	British Empire East India Company Supported by: Rattanakosin Kingdom^[14] ^[15]	Konbaung dynasty	Siamese-allied victory Treaty of Yandabo Beginning of British rule in Burma Burma cedes Manipur and Tenasserim to Britain
Lao rebellion (1826–1828)Location: Central Laos	Rattanakosin Kingdom	Kingdom of Vientiane Military support:	Siamese victory
Siamese–Vietnamese War (1831–1835)Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam	Rattanakosin Kingdom	Nguyễn dynasty	Vietnamese victory Cambodia becomes a vassal state of Vietnam
Cambodian rebellion (1840)Location: Cambodia, Cochinchina (1848	Khmer anti-Vietnamese rebels Support: Rattanakosin Kingdom	Nguyễn dynasty	Siamese-allied VictorySiamese intervention Cambodia independence from Vietnam Cambodia came under joint Siamese-Vietnamese suzerainty
Siamese–Vietnamese War (1841–1845)Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam	Rattanakosin Kingdom Khmer anti-Vietnamese rebels	Nguyễn dynasty	Stalemate Cambodia came under joint Siamese-Vietnamese suzerainty
Burmese–Siamese War (1849–1855)Location: Kengtung, Trans-Salween region	Rattanakosin Kingdom	Konbaung dynasty	Burmese defensive victory
Haw wars (1865–1890)Location: Eastern Cambodia,	Rattanakosin Kingdom Luang Phrabang	Haw Rebels (Red flag and Striped flag bands)	Siamese victory
Franco-Siamese conflict (1893)Location: French Indochina, Siam	Kingdom of Siam	French Republic French Indochina	French victory; Land on east bank of the Mekong ceded to French Indochina
Ngiao rebellion(1902)Location: Phrae	Rattanakosin Kingdom	Shan (Ngiao) rebels	Siamese victory
World War I (1917-1918)Location: Europe (Decapitation Boonpeng 1919)	Allied Powers (1914–17) Belgium (1915–18) (1916–18) (1916–18) Hejaz (1916–18) Brazil (1917–18) China (1917–18) (1917–18) Siam (1917–18)	Central Powers (1915–18)	Siamese-allied victory Central Powers victory on the Eastern Front nullified by defeat on the Western Front Fall of all continental empires in Europe (including Germany, Russia, Turkey and Austria-Hungary) Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War – the collapse of the Russian Empire and the subsequent formation of the Soviet Union Widespread unrest and revolutions throughout Europe and Asia Creation of the League of Nations (more...)

After 1932 revolution

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Boworadet Rebellion (1933)Location: Central Thailand, Nakhon Ratchasima, Lak Si and Ratchaburi	Thailand People's Party	Rebel faction led by Prince Boworadet	People's Party Victory Suppression of the rebellion, consolidation of power by the People's Party
Franco-Thai War (1940-1941)Location: French Indochina	Thailand		Thai tactical victory^[16] Japanese-mediated armistice^[17] Siem Reap, Phra Tabong, Sisophon ceded to Thailand
Japanese invasion of Thailand (1941)Location:Thailand	Thailand	Japan	CeasefireThai alliance with Japan Thailand declares war on the Allied Powers.
World War II (1941-1945)Location: Southeast Asia	Axis Powers (1940-45) (1941-45) (1941-45) (1941-45) (1941-45) Finland Thailand (1941-45)	Allied Powers United States (1941-45) United Kingdom (1941-45) France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand (1941-45) (1940-45) Denmark (1940-45) Norway (1940-45) Netherlands (1940-45) Belgium (1940-45) Luxembourg (1940-45) Brazil (1942-45) Mexico (1942-45) Philippines (1941-45) Free Thai Movement	Allied victory Collapse of Nazi Germany Fall of the Japanese and Italian Empires Allied occupations of Germany and Japan and foundation of the Italian Republic Beginning of the Nuclear Age Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War (more...)
Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)Location: Malay Peninsula, Southeast Asia (Dusun Nyor Rebellion 1948)	Federation of Malaya (until 1953) (after 1953) Fiji Australia New Zealand Supported by: Thailand (Thai–Malaysian border)	Communist forces: Malayan National Liberation Army Supported by: China^[18] ^[19] ^[20] Viet Minh (until 1954) (from 1954)^[21] ^[22] ^[23] ^[24] Indonesia	Thailand-allied victory Independence of Malaya on 31 August 1957
Korean War (1950-1953)Location: Korean Peninsula, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Korea Strait, China–North Korea border	---- United Nations Thailand	See also Military history of Thailand References

Notes and References

1. Taylor, p. 144
2. • Book: Jumsai, Manich. Popular History of Thailand. Bangkok,Thailand. Claremint. 1976. B002DXA1MO. King Tilokarat (1441–1485). 54.
3. Web site: History of Ayutthaya - Foreign Settlements - Portuguese Settlement . 2023-07-05 . www.ayutthaya-history.com.
4. Web site: History of Ayutthaya - Essays - Spain . 2023-07-05 . www.ayutthaya-history.com.
5. Web site: History of Ayutthaya - Historical Events - Timeline 1600-1649 . 2023-07-05 . www.ayutthaya-history.com.
6. Tucker, p. 13.
7. Tucker (2009), p. 722.
8. Baker, Chris; Phongpaichit, Pasuk. A History of Thailand Third Edition (p. 307). (Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.)
9. Book: Wyatt . David K. . Thailand : A Short History . 2003 . Silkworm Books . Chiang Mai . 974957544X . 2nd.
10. Kohn, p. 447.
11. Dupuy, p. 768.
12. Web site: Siam, Cambodia, and Laos 1800-1950 by Sanderson Beck.
13. Book: Stearn . Duncan . Slices of Thai History: From the curious & controversial to the heroic & hardy . 25 March 2019 . Proglen Trading Co..
14. Book: Wood . W.A.R. . A History of Siam . 1924 . 276–277 . T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. . London . 10 February 2022.
15. Van Roy . Edward. Safe Haven: Mon Refugees at the Capitals of Siam from the 1500s to the 1800s . Journal of the Siam Society . 98 . 2010 . 172–173 .
16. Tucker, World War II: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection p. 649
17. Fall, p. 22. "On the seas, one old French cruiser sank one-third of the whole Thai fleet ... Japan, seeing that the war was turning against its pupil and ally, imposed its 'mediation' between the two parties."
18. Book: John W. Garver. China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China. 1 December 2015. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-026106-1. 219–.
19. Web site: China Role's in Indonesia's "Crush Malaysia" Campaign. A. Dahana. Universitas Indonesia. 2002. 19 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160719124912/http://journal.ui.ac.id/humanities/article/viewFile/716/682. 19 July 2016. dead. MAKARA of Social Sciences and Humanities Series.
20. Web site: Malaysia-Indonesia Relations Before and After 1965: Impact on Bilateral and Regional Stability. Mohd. Noor Mat Yazid. Programme of International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. 2013. 19 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160719130036/http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/content/pdf/participant-papers/2013-06-iscd-asia-pacific/Assoc._Prof._Dr._Mohd._Noor_MAT_YAZID.pdf. 19 July 2016. dead.
21. Book: Ching Fatt Yong. The origins of Malayan communism. 1997. South Seas Society. 978-9971-936-12-9.
22. Book: T. N. Harper. Timothy Norman Harper. The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya. 9 April 2001. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-00465-7.
23. Book: Major James M. Kimbrough IV. Disengaging From Insurgencies: Insights From History And Implications For Afghanistan. 6 November 2015. Pickle Partners Publishing. 978-1-78625-345-3. 88–.
24. Book: Geoffrey Jukes. The Soviet Union in Asia. registration. 1 January 1973. University of California Press. 978-0-520-02393-2. 302–.