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This is a list of wars and conflicts involving malagasy tribes, Merina Kingdom and later Madagascar since the nineteenth century to the present.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Malagasy-Portuguese war
(1548) 		Antanosy Antemoro Portuguese Empire Victory
  • Failure of Portuguese colonization[1]
Antanosy-French war
(1643–1674) 		Antanosy  France Victory
  • Destruction of French colony of Fort-Dauphin
Gourbeyre expedition
(1829–1830) 		Merina Kingdom France Victory
  • France failed to regain the lost colonies of Tintingue, Foulepointe and Tamatave
French-British expedition of 1845 Merina Kingdom France
 United Kingdom 		Victory
  • French and British troops destroyed[2]
First Franco-Hova War
(1883–1885) 		Merina Kingdom  France Defeat
Second Franco-Hova War
(1894–1895) 		Merina Kingdom  France Defeat
  • Madagascar annexed by France
Menalamba Rebellion
(1895–1897) 		Menalamba rebels  France Defeat
  • Rebellion put down by French authorities
1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar
(1904–1905) 		Antesaka Antanosy rebels  France Defeat
  • Rebellion put down by French authorities
Malagasy Uprising
(1947–1949) 		MDRM  France Defeat
  • Uprising failed

References

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  1. ^ Malotet, Arthur (1898). Étienne Flacourt ou les origines de la colonisation française à Madagascar (in French). Ernest Leroux. p. 15.
  2. ^ Barbié du Bocage, Victor-Amédée (1859). Madagascar possession française depuis 1642 (in French). Arthus. p. 271.
  • Curtin, Philip D. (1998). Disease and empire: the health of European troops in the conquest of Africa. Cambridge, United Kingdom: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. ISBN 0-521-59169-4.
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