List of wars involving France

Location: France, Central Europe, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, West Indies

 France

•  Batavian Republic (from 1795)[lower-alpha 1]
• Polish Legions (from 1797)[lower-alpha 2]
• Sister Republics

Spain (from 1796)[lower-alpha 3]

 Dutch Republic (until 1795)
 Great Britain
 Holy Roman Empire (until 1797)[lower-alpha 4]

• Habsburg monarchy (until 1797)[lower-alpha 5]
•  Prussia (until 1795)[lower-alpha 6]

 Naples (until 1796)
 Portugal
 Sardinia (until 1796)[lower-alpha 7]
Spain (until 1795)[lower-alpha 8]
Other Italian states

Location: Pyrenees

Location: Saint-Domingue

Collage of the Haitian Revolution

• Saint-Domingue expedition
• Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres
• Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot
• Blockade of Saint-Domingue
• Battle of Vertières

• French colonial government expelled
• Massacre of the French
• French occupation of Santo Domingo

Location: Switzerland

• Mediterranean campaign of 1798

Location: Europe, Middle East, Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea

 France

 Spain
Polish Legions
French client republics:

•  Batavian Republic
•  Helvetic Republic
• Cisalpine Republic
• Roman Republic (until 1799)[lower-alpha 9]
• Parthenopaean Republic (1799)[lower-alpha 10]

 

• Austria (until 1801)

 Great Britain (pre-1801)
 United Kingdom (post-1801)
 Russia (until 1799)
 Ottoman Empire
 Portugal
 Naples (until 1801)
Grand Duchy of Tuscany (until 1801)
Order of Saint John (1798)
French Royalists

• French victory in Europe
• Anglo-Ottoman victory in Mediterranean, Egypt and Levant
• Britain signs Treaty of Amiens which is favourable to France bringing the Anglo-French War of 1792–1802 to an end.
  • Peace is short lived War starts again in 1803 Anglo-French War 1803–1814

Location: Southern Netherlands

Location: Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean

 

Spain

 

 Great Britain

Location: Portugal

 France

Kingdom of Spain

• Portugal closes its ports to British ships

Location: Central Europe, Italy and the Atlantic Ocean

• Treaty of Pressburg
• Consolidation of the French Empire
• Creation of the Confederation of the Rhine
• French conquest of Naples
• Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
• Formation of the Fourth Coalition a few months later

Location: Swedish Pomerania

• Sweden integrates into continental system

Location: Santo Domingo, Saint-Domingue
present day Dominican Republic

• Haitian withdrawal from Santo Domingo

Location: Central Europe, Wallachia and Moldavia

• Confederation of the Rhine
• Etruria
• Holland
• Italy
• Naples
• Polish Legions and rebels
• Saxony
  (after 11 December 1806)

Spain
Switzerland

• Treaties of Tilsit
• Prussia loses half of its territory
• Creation of the Duchy of Warsaw
• Saxony joins the Confederation of the Rhine
• Franco-Russian alliance
• Creation of the Continental System
• Hostilities resume later in 1807 with the commencement of the Peninsular War and expand in 1809 with the formation of a Fifth Coalition against France

Location: Iberian Peninsula and Southern France

• Napoleonic Spain
• Confederation of the Rhine
• Duchy of Warsaw
• Italy

• Junta control over Spain
• Treaty of Paris

Location: Central Europe, Italy and Netherlands

• Confederation of the Rhine
  •  Bavaria
  • Saxony
  •  Westphalia
  •  Württemberg
• Duchy of Warsaw
• Holland
•  Italy
• Naples
• Switzerland

 Austria

• Black Brunswickers

Portugal
 Sardinia
Sicily
Spain
Tyrol
 United Kingdom

• Treaty of Schönbrunn
• Hostilities in the Peninsular War maintained
• General hostilities across Europe suspended until 1812 with the French Invasion of Russia

Location: Tyrol

• Uprising crushed

Location: Eastern Europe

 France

• Confederation of the Rhine
  •  Baden
  • Bavaria
  • Berg
  • Saxony
  •  Westphalia
• Duchy of Warsaw
•  Italy
• Naples
• Switzerland

• Start of the War of the Sixth Coalition

Location: Central and Eastern Europe

 France

• Duchy of Warsaw[lower-alpha 12]
•  Italy
• Naples

Until January 1814

After the Armistice of Pläswitz

After the Battle of Leipzig

After January 1814

• Treaty of Fontainebleau, Treaty of Kiel and First Treaty of Paris
• Bourbon Restoration, with Napoleon defeated and exiled to Elba
• Various territorial changes
• Dissolution of Denmark-Norway
• Beginning of the Congress of Vienna
• Hostilities resume with the return of Napoleon to power in 1815

Location: France and Netherlands

• Second Treaty of Paris
• End of the Napoleonic Wars
• Second exile of Napoleon and second Bourbon Restoration
• Beginning of the Concert of Europe

Location: Spain

• Battle of Navarino
• Morea Expedition

Location: Greece

• Egypt
• Algeria
• Tripolitania
• Tunis

• First Hellenic Republic established and recognized

Location: Waalo, West Africa

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Battle of the Tagus

Location: Portugal

Supported by:
United Kingdom (1828–1834)
France (1830–1834)
Belgian volunteers (1832–1834)[1]
Spain (1833–1834)

Supported by:
Spain (1828–1833)

• Concession of Evoramonte

Location: Regency of Algiers

• Battle of Macta
• Siege of Constantine
• Battle of Mazagran
• Battle of the Smala
• Battle of Sidi Brahim

 

• Regency of Algiers

Emirate of Abdelkader
Kingdom of Ait Abbas
Kel Ahaggar
Sultanate of Morocco

• Pacification of Algeria

Location: The Low Countries

• Most European powers' recognition of Belgium's independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Location: Spain

Location: Mexico

• Mexican government agrees to pay damages of 600,000 pesos

• Anglo-French blockade of the Rio de la Plata
  • Battle of Vuelta de Obligado

Location: Uruguay

Location: Morocco

• Bombardment of Tangiers
• Battle of Isly
• Bombardment of Mogador

Location: Tahiti

Location: Off Tourane (Da Nang), South Central Coast of Vietnam

Location: Lombardy; Rome

• Italian Volunteer Army

Supported by:

• Provisional Government of Milan
• Republic of San Marco
• Kingdom of Sicily
• Grand Duchy of Tuscany
• Duchy of Modena and Reggio
• Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
• Roman Republic

• Austria keeps Lombardy–Venetia
• French Victory over Roman Republic
  • Papal rule restored over Rome[2]

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Location: China

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

• Fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
• Diminished power of the central court over the provinces
• Rise of irregular provincial armies
• Vanquishing of God Worshippers
• Lasting damage to the perception of Christianity in China
• Sparking other rebellions in China, including the Miao Rebellion (1854–73)
• Persecution of Hakka people and other ethnic groups that supported the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Location: Morocco

• Morocco agreed to pay 100,000 francs to the French on 29 November 1851 to avoid further conflict.[3]
• France had desired a revolt against the governor of Salé to force repayment and avoid destruction of the city, but this did not occur.[4]

Location: Crimea, Caucasus, Balkans, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East

 

• Egypt
• Tunis

 Britain

 

• Mingrelia

• Treaty of Paris

Location: China

• Treaty of Tientsin

Location: Médine, Mali

Location: Vietnam

• Philippines

• Cochinchina (southern Vietnam) becomes a French colony

Location: Lombardy–Venetia, Piedmont and the Austrian Littoral

Location: Mexico

• Battle of Puebla
• Battle of Barranca Seca
• Battle of San Pablo del Monte
• Battle of Camarón
• Battle of San Juan Bautista
• Capture of Mazatlán
• Battle of Acapulco
• Battle of San Pedro
• Siege of Mexico City

• Establishment, then fall, of the Second Mexican Empire
• French withdrawal following the continued loss of territory by Mexican Republic forces and American threats.

Location: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

Location: Korea

• French withdrawal, Korea reaffirms its isolationism

Location: Rome

Location: France

•  Kingdom of Prussia
•  Kingdom of Saxony

Grand Duchy of Baden
 Kingdom of Bavaria
Kingdom of Württemberg
Grand Duchy of Hesse

• Dissoulution of the Second French Empire, Third Republic Established

Location: Society Islands

Location: Tunisia

• Tunisia becomes a French protectorate

Location: West Africa

Location: Madagascar

Location: Southeast mainland China, Taiwan, northern Vietnam

• Battle of Fuzhou
• Kep Campaign
• Battle of Shipu
• Battle of Zhenhai
• Lạng Sơn Campaign
• Siege of Tuyên Quang
• Battle of Hòa Mộc
• Battle of Phu Lam Tao
• Battle of Bang Bo
• Retreat from Lạng Sơn
• Pescadores Campaign

• Limited "victory" for Qing forces on land (China won one battle at the end before suing for peace)
• Defeat of Qing forces on Taiwan and surrounding islands
• Collapse of Ferry's government in late March due to public opinion against the war
• Treaty of Tientsin
• China officially recognizes French domination over Vietnam

Location: Northern Vietnam

• French protectorate over Tonkin and Annam

Location: Ouémé Department of modern Benin

• Dahomey recognizes Porto-Novo as a French protectorate and gives up customs rights to Cotonou in exchange for yearly payment

Location: Ouémé Department and Zou Department of modern Benin

• Battle of Abomey

• Dahomey conquered and incorporated as a French protectorate

Location: French Indochina, Siam

• French Indochina

• Entente Cordiale
• Laos ceded to French Indochina

Location: Eritrea and Ethiopia

 Italy

• Italian Eritrea

• Treaty of Addis Ababa

Location: Madagascar

Location: Crete

• Establishment of the Cretan State.
• Withdraw of Ottoman forces from Crete.

Location: North China

 France

 

•  India

 Russia

 Japan

 Germany

 United States

 Italy

 Austria-Hungary

 Netherlands

 Belgium

• Boxer Protocol

• Battle of Togbao
• Battle of Kousséri

Location: West Africa

Location: Madagascar

• Rebellion suppressed

Location: Ouaddai Empire

• Annexation of Ouaddai Empire

Location: North Africa

• Morocco

Location: French protectorate of Morocco

• Battle of El Herri

• Morocco

Location: Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and coast of North and South America

France
 British Empire

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Newfoundland
•  Australia
•  New Zealand
•  India
•  South Africa

Russian Empire
 United States
 Italy
 Japan
 China
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Romania
 Belgium
 Greece
 Portugal
 Brazil

 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria

• 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

Location: Burkino Faso, Mali

• French West Africa

Location: Northern Niger

• French West Africa

Location: Northern Vietnam

• Uprising suppressed.

Location: Hungary, and Transylvania

 Romania

 France

 Czechoslovakia

Location: Cilicia and Upper Mesopotamia

• French Armenian Legion

• Kuva-yi Milliye

• French influence in Anatolia is repelled

Location: Russia, Mongolia, and Iran

White Movement
 British Empire

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Australia
•  India
•  South Africa

 United States
France
 Japan
 Czechoslovakia
 Greece
 Estonia
 Serbia
 Italy
Poland
 Romania
 China

 Russian SFSR
 Far Eastern Republic
Latvian SSR
Ukrainian SSR
Commune of Estonia
Mongolian Communists

• Allied withdrawal from Russia
• Bolshevik victory over White Army

Location: Luxembourg

• Luxembourgish republican and pro-Belgian rebellion suppressed (10 January 1919)

Location: Tighina, Kingdom of Romania (present day Bender, Moldova)

Location: Syria

• Alawite Revolt of 1919
• Hananu Revolt
• Battle of Maysalun
• Capture of Damascus (1920)

• French West Africa

• Arab militias

• Establishment of French Mandate of Syria
  King Faisal expelled to Mandatory Iraq

Location: Morocco

• Dissolution of the Republic of the Rif

Location: The Ruhr, Germany

• Dawes Plan

Location: French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon

Damascus in flames as the result of the French air raid on October 18, 1925.

• Capture of Salkhad
• Battle of al-Kafr
• Battle of al-Mazraa
• Battle of al-Musayfirah
• 1925 Hama uprising
• Battle of Rashaya
• Battle of al-Mazraa

• Syria
• Lebanon

Location: French Equatorial Africa, French Cameroon

• French Equatorial Africa
• French Cameroon

Fula people

Co-belligerents:
Gbaya chiefdoms

Co-belligerents:
Mbum people
Mbai people
Pana people
Yangere people
Mbimou people
Goundi people

Location: Vietnam

• French Indochina

• Uprising crushed
  VNQDĐ severely damaged by deaths and arrests, jailings and executions by French authorities[12]

Location: Europe, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, Oceania, North and South America

 United States
 Soviet Union
 United Kingdom
 China
France
Poland
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Yugoslavia
 Greece
 Denmark
 Norway
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Luxembourg
 Czechoslovakia
 Brazil
 Mexico

 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
 Croatia
 Slovakia
 Finland
 Thailand
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang

• Collapse of the Third Reich
• Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
• Creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
• Beginning of the Cold War

Location: French Indochina

• Battle of Ko Chang

 

• French Indochina

• Japanese-mediated ceasefire
• On Japanese decision, disputed territories in French Indochina ceded by France to Thailand

Location: Vietnam

• Restoration of French rule in Indochina
• First Indochina War begins

Location: French Indochina

• Battle of Hanoi
• Battle of Cao Bằng
• Operation Papillon
• Operation Léa
• Operation Ceinture
• Battle of Đông Khê
• Battle of Route Coloniale 4
• Battle of Vĩnh Yên
• Battle of Mạo Khê
• Battle of the Day River
• Battle of Hòa Bình
• Operation Lorraine
• Battle of Nà Sản
• Operation Bretagne
• Operation Adolphe
• Battle of Muong Khoua
• Operation Camargue
• Operation Hirondelle
• Operation Brochet
• Operation Mouette
• Operation Castor
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu
• Operation Condor
• Battle of Mang Yang Pass

•  French Indochina (1945–1954)

Cambodia
(1953–1954)
 Laos
(1953–1954)
State of Vietnam (1949–1954)

Supported by:
 United States (1950–1954)

Lao Issara (1945–1949)

• Pathet Lao (1949–1954)

Khmer Issarak

• United Issarak Front (1950–1954)

Japanese volunteers

Supported by:
 Soviet Union
 China (1949–1954)
 East Germany
Poland[13]

• Vietnam is partitioned between North (controlled by the Viet Minh) and South (controlled by the State of Vietnam)
• Geneva Conference
• Departure of the French from Indochina
• State of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia achieve independence

Location: Madagascar

• Uprising Crushed by French, various participants tried and executed
• Scars on Malagasy society

Location: Korea

• Ceasefire armistice
• North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled
• UN invasion of North Korea repelled
• Chinese invasion of South Korea repelled
• Korean Demilitarized Zone established
• Little territorial change at the 38th parallel border

Location: Algeria

• Toussaint Rouge
• Battle of Philippeville
• Battle of Algiers
• Battle of Agounennda
• Operation Jumelles
• Algiers putsch of 1961
• Battle of Bab El Oued

• FLN political victory
• Évian Accords
• Algerian independence

Location: French Cameroon

• French Equatorial Africa[14]

After 1960
Cameroon[15]
France

Location: Gaza Strip and Egypt (Sinai and Suez Canal zone)

Location: Spanish Sahara, Ifni, Morocco

French wars since 1958

Location: Basque country

 

 France

• Spanish Basque Battalion (1975–1981)
• Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups (1983–1987)[lower-alpha 17]
• Anti-Communist Apostolic Alliance (1976–1983)
• Spanish Armed Groups (1979–1980)
• Warriors of Christ the King (1968–1980)
• Spanish National Action (unknown)
• ETA Anti-Terrorism (1970s)
• Anti-Marxist Commandos

Basque National Liberation Movement:

• Euskadi Ta Askatasuna
• Iparretarrak (1972–2000)
• Iraultza (1982–1996)
• Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commandos (late 1970s–1980s)
• Irrintzi (2005–2009)
• Kale borroka
• Hordago (1980s)
• Euskal Zuzentasuna (1977–1979)

Location: Bizerte, Tunisia

Location: Western Sahara

• Polisario Front

 Algeria
Supported by:
Libya (until 1984)
North Korea (from 1978)

• Spanish withdrawal under the Madrid Accords (1976)
• Mauritanian retreat and withdrawal of territorial claims

Location: Corsica

• National Liberation Front of Corsica
• A Cuncolta Naziunalista

Location: Shaba Province, Zaire

Location: Chad

• FAT (1978–79)
• FAN (1978–83)
• FANT (1983–87)
• GUNT (1986–87)

 France
 Zaire
 Nigeria
 Senegal
Supported by:
 Sudan
 Egypt
 Israel
 Iraq
 United States

• Islamic Legion

Pro-Libyan Chadian factions

• FROLINAT
• GUNT (1979–86)
• Codos (1983–86)

 PLO (1987)
Supported by:
 East Germany
 Soviet Union

• Chad gains control of the Aouzou Strip

Location: Shaba, Zaire

Location: Rwanda

Location: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and
the Persian Gulf

 

 

 United Kingdom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

other allies

• Iraqi forces expelled from Kuwait
• Kuwaiti independence restored
• Destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure

Location: Northern Djibouti

• FRUD peace accord

Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Location: Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (then part of Serbia

• Kumanovo Treaty

Location: Afghanistan

• Mission Héraclès
• French forces in Afghanistan
  • Operation Anaconda
  • Operation Mountain Viper
  • Operation Eagle's Summit
  • Uzbin Valley ambush
  • Battle of Alasay
  • Operation Septentrion
  • Operation Moshtarak

• Invasion and occupation of Afghanistan
• Destruction of al-Qaeda and Taliban militant training camps
• Fall of the Taliban government
• Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan under the Karzai administration
• Start of Taliban insurgency
• Drone Strikes in the tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Death of Osama bin Laden
• Death of Mohammed Omar in July 2013
• Over two-thirds of al-Qaeda's operatives killed or captured
• International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) disbanded in December 2014
• Commencement of Resolute Support Mission in December 2014
• United States led withdrawal in August 2021

Location: Maghreb, Sahara desert, Sahel

• Operation Barkhane

Location: Ivory Coast

A Forces nouvelles's member caught by the French Foreign Legion in 2004 after a plundering.

 

 

 

 

 France
UNOIC

Location: Haiti

MINUSTAH
 United States
 Chile
 Canada
 France

Location: Chad

Location: Somalia

• Operation Atalanta
• Operation Linda Nchi
• Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt

Location: Northeast Nigeria

Location: Ivory Coast

Location: Libya

Part of a group of six, Italian-built, Palmaria self-propelled howitzers of the Gaddafi regime's forces, destroyed by French Rafale airplanes at the west-southern outskirts of Benghazi, Libya, in Opération Harmattan on March 19, 2011.

• Opération Harmattan
• Operation Unified Protector

 

•  Belgium
•  Bulgaria
•  Canada
•  Denmark
•  France
•  Greece
•  Italy
•  Netherlands
•  Norway
•  Romania
•  Spain
•  United Kingdom
•  United States

 

• Armed Forces
• Pro-Gaddafi militia
• Foreign mercenaries

• Overthrow of the Gaddafi regime
• Continuation of Libyan Crisis
• Escalation of interfactional violence
• Which led to beginning of Second Libyan Civil War
• Rise of ISIL in Libya

Location: Northern Mali

• Opération Serval

• Military of Mali

 France
 Turkey
ECOWAS

• Islamic Movement of Azawad

• Operation Serval Success
• France withdrew from Mali in 2022[16]

Location: Central African Republic

French soldiers as part of Operation Sangaris, authorized in late 2013.

• Opération Sangaris

 

 France (2013–16)
 South Africa (2012–13)
EUFOR RCA (2014–15)

Location: Iraq

• Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014)
  • Siege of Amirli
• Northern Iraq offensive (August 2014)
  • Battle of Zumar
• Battle of Suq al Ghazi
• Battle of Ramadi (2014–15)
• Battle of Baiji (2014–15)
• Second Battle of Tikrit (March–April 2015)
• Al-Karmah offensive (2015)

 

CJTF–OIR

•  United States
•  France
•  United Kingdom
•  Netherlands
•  Australia
•  Jordan
•  Denmark

Location: Iraq, Syria, Libya

French Dassault Rafale of Squadron 11F prepares to land on USS Carl Vinson. Carl Vinson is deployed as part of maritime security operations and strike operations in Iraq and Syria.

• French airstrikes on ISIL in Iraq and Syria
• ISIL ground attacks on French special forces repelled

Location: Danish–Norwegian waters

Co-belligerent:
Russian Empire (1808–09)
Supported by:
French Empire[18]

Co-belligerent:
Sweden
(1809, 1813–1814)

• Treaty of Kiel
• Dissolution of Denmark–Norway
• Norway adopts a new Constitution
• Norwegian War of Independence

Location: Scandinavia

Co-belligerent:
Russian Empire
Supported by:
French Empire

Co-belligerent:
United Kingdom

• Treaty of Jönköping

Location: Finland and Sweden

Co-belligerent:
Denmark–Norway Supported by:
French Empire

Supported by:
United Kingdom

• Treaty of Fredrikshamn

Location: The Levant

• Egypt renounces claim on Syria, Britain recognizes Muhammad Ali and his descendants as the legitimate rulers of Egypt

Location: Sicily and Southern Italy

Location: German Empire

 

• Reichswehr
• Freikorps
• Der Stahlhelm
• Social Democratic Party of Germany

Supported by:
 France

Location: Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia, Hungary

• Hungarian retreat after diplomatic negotiations with the Entente
• Formation and then dissolution of the Slovak Soviet Republic

Location: Central and Eastern Europe

Location: Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara, North Sea and Guinea

• Ejército Popular
• Popular Front
• UGT
• CNT-FAI
• Generalitat de Catalunya
• Euzko Gudarostea[lower-alpha 21]
• International Brigades

Supported by:
 Soviet Union
 Mexico
France (1936)

• Foreign volunteers

• FET y de las JONS[lower-alpha 22]
• FE de las JONS[lower-alpha 23]
• Requetés/CT[lower-alpha 23]
• CEDA[lower-alpha 23]
• Renovación Española[lower-alpha 23]
• Army of Africa

Italy
Germany
Supported by:
Portugal
Holy See (Diplomatic)
Foreign volunteers

Location: Around the oasis towns of Tindouf and Figuig

• The closing of the border south of Figuig, Morocco/Béni Ounif, Algeria.
• Morocco abandoned its intentions to control Béchar and Tindouf after OAU mediation.
• No territorial changes were made.
• Demilitarized zone established

Location: Nigeria

• Biafra rejoins Nigeria

Location: Argentina

• Argentine Army
• Argentine Navy
• Argentine Air Force
• Argentine Federal Police
• Argentine National Gendarmerie
• Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
• Justicialist Party