The Battle of Coyotepe Hill was a significant engagement during the United States occupation of Nicaragua from August through November 1912 during the insurrection staged by Minister of War General Luis Mena against the government of President Adolfo Díaz.

Coyotepe is an old fortress located on a 500-foot hill overlooking the strategic railroad line near Masaya roughly halfway between Managua and Granada, Nicaragua.

On 2 to 4 October 1912, a Nicaraguan rebel force led by General Benjamín Zeledón occupying Coyotepe and another hill, Barranca fort, overlooking the strategic rail line, refused to surrender to government troops under President Adolfo Díaz.

During pre-dawn hours on 4 October Butler's battalion, in concert with two Marine battalions and one from the USS California led by Marine Colonel Joseph H. Pendleton converged from different positions to storm the hill and capture it.

Occasionally dissidents imprisoned there would be taken from the fortress in a helicopter and dropped into a nearby volcano.