List of wars involving France

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This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792 until the current Fifth Republic.

  French victory
  French defeat
  Another result *
  Ongoing conflict

*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive

First French Republic (1792–1804)

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Conflict Allies Opponents Outcome
French Revolution
(1789–1799)

Location: France

  Kingdom of France Revolutionaries French Republican victory
War of the First Coalition
(1792–1797)

Location: Western, Central, and Southern Europe, West Indies

  French Republic

French satellites:[1]

French naval allies:

  Armée des Émigrés First Coalition:
  Dutch Republic
(1792–1795)[5]
  Great Britain
  Holy Roman Empire (1792–1797)[6]

  Papal States (1792–1797)[9]
  Parma (1792–1796)
  Portugal
  Prussia (1792–1795)[7]
  Sardinia (1792–1796)[10]
  Spain (1792–1795)[7]
  Naples (1792–1796)
Other Italian states[11]

French victory
War in the Vendée
(1793–1796)

Location: Western France (former provinces of Anjou, Poitou, and Brittany)

  French First Republic:   French Royalists:

Supported by:   Great Britain

French Republican victory
War of the Pyrenees
(1793–1795)

Location: Pyrenees

  France   Kingdom of Spain
  Kingdom of Portugal
French victory
Haitian Revolution
(1791–1804)

Location: Saint-Domingue

 
Collage of the Haitian Revolution
  Slave owners
  Kingdom of France
  French Republic
  Ex-slaves
  French royalists
  Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (1793–1795)
  Great Britain
  Ex-slaves (1802–1803)
Haitian victory
French invasion of Switzerland
(1798)

Location: Switzerland

  France   Switzerland French victory
War of the Second Coalition
(1798–1802)

Location: Europe, Middle East, Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas

  France


  Spain
  Polish Legions
French client republics:

  Holy Roman Empire (until 1801)[c]

  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
Peasants' War
(1798)

Location: Southern Netherlands

  French Republic   Brigands French victory
Quasi-War

(1798–1800)

Location: Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean Seas
 
USS Constellation vs. L'Insurgente
  French Republic   United States

Co-belligerent:

  Great Britain

Convention of 1800
  • Peaceful cessation of Franco-American alliance
  • End of French privateer attacks on American shipping
  • American neutrality and renunciation of claims by France
War of the Oranges
(1801)

Location: Portugal

  France


  Kingdom of Spain

  Kingdom of Portugal French victory
  • Portugal closes its ports to British ships

First French Empire (1804–1814, 1815)

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Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome
War of the Third Coalition
(1803–06)

Location: Central Europe, Italy and the Atlantic Ocean

  France
  Batavian Republic
  Bavaria
  Etruria
  Italy
  Spain
  Württemberg
  Holy Roman Empire
  Naples
  Russia
  Sicily
  Sweden
  United Kingdom
French victory
Franco-Swedish War
(1805–10)

Location: Swedish Pomerania

  France   Sweden French victory
Siege of Santo Domingo
(1805)

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

  France   Haiti French victory
War of the Fourth Coalition
(1806)

Location: Central Europe, Wallachia and Moldavia

  France

  Spain
Switzerland

  Prussia
  Russia
  Saxony
(until 11 December 1806)
  Sicily
  Sweden
  United Kingdom
French victory
Gunboat War
(1807–1814)

Location: Danish–Norwegian waters

  Denmark–Norway

Co-belligerent:
  Russian Empire (1808–09)
Supported by:
  French Empire[12]

  United Kingdom

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

British victory
Finnish War
(1808–1809)

Location: Finland and Sweden

  Russian Empire

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

  Sweden

Supported by:
  United Kingdom

Russian victory
Dano-Swedish War of 1808–1809
(1808–1809)

Location: Scandinavia

  Denmark–Norway

Co-belligerent:
  Russian Empire
Supported by:
  French Empire

  Sweden

Co-belligerent:
  United Kingdom

Inconclusive
Peninsular War
(1808–1814)

Location: Iberian Peninsula and Southern France

  France   Spain
  Portugal
  United Kingdom
Coalition victory
War of the Fifth Coalition
(1809)

Location: Central Europe, Italy and Netherlands

  France   Austria

  Portugal
  Sardinia
  Sicily
  Spain
  Tyrol
  United Kingdom

French victory
Tyrolean Rebellion
(1809)

Location: Tyrol

  French Empire   Tyrolean partisans French victory
  • Uprising crushed
French invasion of Russia
(1812)

Location: Eastern Europe

  France   Russia Russian victory
War of the Sixth Coalition
(1813–1814)

Location: Central and Eastern Europe

  France

Until January 1814

Original coalition

After the Armistice of Pläswitz

After the Battle of Leipzig

After January 1814

Coalition victory
Hundred Days
(1815)

Location: France and Netherlands

  France
  Naples
  Austria
  Prussia
  Russia
  United Kingdom
  Baden
  Bavaria
  Brunswick
  Denmark
  Kingdom of France
  Hanover
  Liechtenstein
  Nassau
  Netherlands
  Portugal
  Sardinia
  Saxony
  Sicily
  Spain
  Sweden
  Switzerland
  Tuscany
  Württemberg
Coalition-Bourbon victory

Bourbon Restoration (1814–15, 1815–1830)

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Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome
Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
(1823)

Location: Spain

  Kingdom of France
  Armée de la Foi
  Partisans of the Cortes French and Spanish Royalist victory
Greek War of Independence
(1821–1829)

Location: Greece

1821:
  Filiki Eteria
  Greek revolutionaries
After 1822:
  Hellenic Republic
Supported by:
  Romanian Revolutionaries (1821)
  Philhellenes
  United Kingdom (after 1826)
  Russian Empire (after 1826)
  Kingdom of France (after 1826)
  Serb and Montenegrin volunteers
  Ottoman Empire Greek victory
  • First Hellenic Republic established and recognized
Franco-Trarzan War of 1825
(1825)

Location: Waalo, West Africa

  France Trarza French victory
Irish and German Mercenary Soldiers' Revolt
(1825)

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Empire of Brazil
  France
  United Kingdom
Irish mercenaries
German mercenaries
Revolt Suppressed
July Revolution
(July 1830)

Location: France

  Bourbon Restoration (Legitimists) Orléanists Orléanist victory

July Monarchy (1830–1848)

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Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome
Liberal Wars
(1828–34)

Location: Portugal

  Liberals

Supported by:
  United Kingdom (1828–1834)
  France (1830–1834)
  Belgian volunteers (1832–1834)[13]
  Spain (1833–1834)

  Miguelites

Supported by:
  Spain (1828–1833)

Liberal victory
French conquest of Algeria
(1827–1830–1857)

Location: Regency of Algiers

  France   Ottoman Empire

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

French victory
Belgian Revolution
(1830–31)

Location: The Low Countries

  Belgian rebels
  France
  United Netherlands Franco-Belgian victory
  • Most European powers' recognition of Belgium's independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
June Rebellion
(1832)

Location: Paris, France

  July Monarchy   Republicans Orléanist victory, rebellion crushed
First Carlist War
(1833–1840)

Location: Spain

  Liberals
Supported by:
  France
  United Kingdom
  Portugal (from 1834)
  Carlists
Supported by:
  Portugal (until 1834)
French and Liberal victory
First Franco-Mexican War
(1838–1839)

Location: Mexico

  France   Mexico French victory
  • Mexican government agrees to pay damages of 600,000 pesos
Uruguyan Civil War
(1839-1851)

Location: Uruguay

  Colorados
Colorado victory
Second Egyptian-Ottoman War
(1839–1841)

Location: The Levant

  Eyalet of Egypt
  Kingdom of France
  Kingdom of Spain
  Ottoman Empire
  British Empire
  Austrian Empire
  Russian Empire
  Kingdom of Prussia
Ottoman victory
  • Egypt renounces claim on Syria, Britain recognizes Muhammad Ali and his descendants as the legitimate rulers of Egypt
First Franco-Moroccan War
(1844)

Location: Morocco

  France   Morocco
  Algerian volunteers
French victory
Franco-Tahitian War
(1844–1847)

Location: Tahiti

  France   Tahiti
  Huahine
  Raiatea
  Bora Bora and Tahaa
French victory
Bombardment of Tourane
(1847)

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

  France Nguyễn dynasty French victory
French Revolution of 1848
(February 1848)

Location: Paris, France

  July Monarchy
Supported by:
  United Kingdom
  Republicans
  Socialists
Republican victory

Second French Republic (1848–1852)

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Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome
First Italian War of Independence
(1848–1849)

Location: Lombardy; Rome

  Austrian Empire
  Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
  France (1849)
  Kingdom of Sardinia

Supported by:

French-Austrian Victory
  • Austria keeps Lombardy–Venetia
  • French Victory over Roman Republic
    • Papal rule restored over Rome[14]
June Days uprising
(June 1848)

Location: France

  French Second Republic   Socialist rebels Second Republic victory
  • New constitution adopted from the provisional government
French invasion of Honolulu
(1849)

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

  France   Hawaiian Kingdom Victory

Second French Empire (1852–1870)

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Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome
Taiping Rebellion
(1850–1871)

Location: China

Qing victory
Bombardment of Salé
(1851)

Location: Morocco

  France   Sherifian Empire French military victory
French political failure
  • Morocco agreed to pay 100,000 francs to the French on 29 November 1851 to avoid further conflict.[15]
  • France had desired a revolt against the governor of Salé to force repayment and avoid destruction of the city, but this did not occur.[16]
Crimean War
(1853–1856)

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

  France
  Ottoman Empire   Britain[e]
  Sardinia[f]
Supported by:
  Austrian Empire
  Caucasus Imamate[g]
  Circassia
Abkhazia[f]
  Russian Empire Kurdish rebels
  Greece[h]
Allied victory
Second Opium War
(1857)

Location: China

  France
  United Kingdom
  India
  United States
  Qing dynasty Allied victory
Siege of Medina Fort
(1857)

Location: Médine, Mali

  France Toucouleur Empire French victory
Cochinchina Campaign
(1858–1862)

Location: Vietnam

  Second French Empire
  Spain
Nguyễn dynasty Franco-Spanish victory
Second Italian War of Independence
(1859)

Location: Lombardy–Venetia, Piedmont and the Austrian Littoral

  French Empire
  Kingdom of Sardinia
Supported By:
  United Principalities
  Austrian Empire
  Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Franco-Sardinian victory
Expedition of the Thousand
(1860–61)

Location: Sicily and Southern Italy

  Two Sicilies
Supported by
  Papal States
  France
  Spain
  Sardinia
Supported by
  United Kingdom
Unification Victory
Second Franco-Mexican War
(1862–1867)

Location: Mexico

  France
  Mexican Empire
  United Mexican States
  United States (from 1865)[17]
French Defeat
  • Establishment, then fall, of the Second Mexican Empire
  • French withdrawal following the continued loss of territory by Mexican Republic forces and American threats.
Shimonoseki Campaign
(1863–1864)

Location: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

  Britain
  French Empire
  Netherlands
  United States
  Chōshū Domain Allied victory
French campaign against Korea
(1866)

Location: Korea

  France   Korea French defeat
  • French withdrawal, Korea reaffirms its isolationism
Garibaldis Expedition to Rome 1867

Location: Rome

  France
  Papal States
  Italian volunteers Franco-Papal Victory
Franco-Prussian War
(1870–71)

Location: France

  France   North German Confederation

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

French Defeat
  • Dissolution of the Second French Empire, Third Republic Established

French Third Republic (1870–1940)

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Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome
Paris Commune
(1871)

Location: Paris

  French Third Republic   Communards
  National Guards
Third Republic victory
Annexation of the Leeward Islands
(1880–1897)

Location: Society Islands

  France
  Tahiti (French protectorate)
  Raiatea-Tahaa
  Huahine
  Bora Bora
French Victory
French conquest of Tunisia
(1881)

Location: Tunisia

  France   Beylik of Tunis French victory
  • Tunisia becomes a French protectorate
Mandingo Wars
(1883–1898)

Location: West Africa

  France   Wassoulou Empire French victory
First Madagascar expedition
(1883–1885)

Location: Madagascar

  France   Merina Kingdom French victory
Sino-French War
(1884–1885)

Location: Southeast mainland China, Taiwan, northern Vietnam

  France   China
Black Flag Army
Nguyễn dynasty
Both sides declared victory
  • 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
Tonkin Campaign
(1883–1886)

Location: Northern Vietnam

  France   Qing dynasty
  Black Flag Army
  Nguyễn dynasty
French victory
First Franco-Dahomean War
(1890)

Location: Ouémé Department of modern Benin

  France   Dahomey French victory
  • Dahomey recognizes Porto-Novo as a French protectorate and gives up customs rights to Cotonou in exchange for yearly payment
Second Franco-Dahomean War
(1892–1894)

Location: Ouémé Department and Zou Department of modern Benin

  France   Dahomey French victory
  • Dahomey conquered and incorporated as a French protectorate
Franco-Siamese conflict
(1893)

Location: French Indochina, Siam

  French Republic   Siam French victory
First Italo-Ethiopian War
(1894–1896)

Location: Eritrea and Ethiopia

  Ethiopia
Support:
  Russia[18][19][20]
  France[21][22]
Eritrean rebels[23]
  Italy Ethiopian victory
Second Madagascar expedition
(1894–1895)

Location: Madagascar

  France   Merina Kingdom French victory
Cretan Revolt (1897–1898)

Location: Crete

  Cretan revolutionaries
  Kingdom of Greece
  British Empire
  France
  Italy
  Russian Empire
  Austria-Hungary (until April 12, 1898)
  German Empire (until March 16, 1898)
  Ottoman Empire French victory
  • Establishment of the Cretan State.
  • Withdraw of Ottoman forces from Crete.
Boxer Rebellion
(1899)

Location: North China

  France
  British Empire   Russia
  Japan
  Germany
  United States
  Italy
  Austria-Hungary
  Netherlands
  Belgium
  Spain
  Mutual Protection of Southeast China
  Boxers
  Qing dynasty
Allied victory
Rabih War
(1899–1901)

Location: West Africa

  France   Kanem–Bornu Empire French victory
1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar
(1904–1905)

Location: Madagascar

  France Rebels French victory
  • Rebellion suppressed
Ouaddai War
(1909–1911)

Location: Ouaddai Empire

  France Ouaddai Empire French victory
French conquest of Morocco
(1911–1934)

Location: North Africa

  France Zaian Confederation
Varying other Berber tribes
French victory
Zaian War
(1914–1921)

Location: French protectorate of Morocco

  France Zaian Confederation
Varying other Berber tribes
Supported during the First World War by the Central Powers
French victory
First World War
(1914–1918)

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

Allied Powers

  France
  British Empire

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

Central Powers

  Germany
  Austria-Hungary
  Ottoman Empire
  Bulgaria

Allied victory
Volta-Bani War
(1915–1917)

Location: Burkino Faso, Mali

  France Marka, Bwa, Lela, Nuni, and Bobo people French victory
Kaocen revolt
(1916–1917)

Location: Northern Niger

  France Tuareg guerrillas French victory
Thái Nguyên uprising
(1917–1918)

Location: Northern Vietnam

  France   Vietnamese rebels French victory
  • Uprising suppressed.
Occupation of Constantinople
(1918–1923)

Location: Istanbul

  United Kingdom
  France
  Italy
  Greece
  United States[24]
  Japan[24]
  Ottoman Empire Temporary occupation
November 1918 insurgency in Alsace-Lorraine

Location: Alsace-Lorraine

  French Third Republic   Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic Third Republic victory
Hungarian-Romanian War
(1918–1919)

Location: Hungary, and Transylvania

  Romania
Supported by:
  France

  Czechoslovakia

  Hungarian Republic
(until 21 March 1919)
  Soviet Hungary
Supported by:
  Soviet Russia
Romanian victory
Franco-Turkish War
(1918–1921)

Location: Cilicia and Upper Mesopotamia

  France   Grand National Assembly French loss
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
(1918–1920)

Location: Russia, Mongolia, and Iran

  White Movement
  British Empire

  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
  • Allied withdrawal from Russia
  • Bolshevik victory over White Army
German Revolution of 1918–1919
(1918–1919)

Location: German Empire

1918–1919:
  Weimar Republic

Supported by:
  France

  FSR Germany
Supported by:
  Russian SFSR
Weimar victory
Hungarian–Czechoslovak War
(1918–1919)

Location: Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia, Hungary

  Czechoslovakia
Supported by:
  France
  Romania
  Hungarian Republic
(until 21 March 1919)
  Soviet Hungary
(from 21 March 1919)
Supported by:
  Soviet Russia
Czechoslovakian victory
1919 Luxembourgish rebellion
(January 1919)

Location: Luxembourg

  French Third Republic
  Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
  Comité de Salut Public (Luxembourg) [nl]
  Republic of Luxembourg
French and Luxembourgish monarchist victory
  • Luxembourgish republican and pro-Belgian rebellion suppressed (10 January 1919)
Polish-Soviet War
(1919–1921)

Location: Central and Eastern Europe

  Poland
  Belarusian PR
  Latvia[i]
  Ukrainian People's Republic[j]
Supported by:
  France
  Hungarian Republic
  Romania
  Russian Whites
  United Kingdom[k]
  United States[k]
  Russian SFSR
  Byelorussian SSR
  Polrewkom
  Ukrainian SSR
Polish victory
Bender Uprising
(1919)

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

  France
  Romania
  Red Guards
  Ukrainian SSR
Franco-Romanian victory
Franco-Syrian War
(1920)

Location: Syria

  France   Arab Kingdom of Syria
  • Arab militias
French victory
Rif War
(1920–1927)

Location: Morocco

  Spain
  France (1925–1926)
Jebala tribes
  Republic of the Rif
Jebala tribes
Franco-Spanish victory
Great Syrian Revolt
(1925–1927)

Location: French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon

 
Damascus in flames as the result of the French air raid on October 18, 1925.
  France Syrian rebels French victory
Kongo-Wara rebellion
(1928–1931)

Location: French Equatorial Africa, French Cameroon

  France

Fula people


Co-belligerents:
Gbaya chiefdoms

Gbaya people and clans

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

French victory
Yên Bái mutiny
(1930)

Location: Vietnam

  France   Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng French victory
  • Uprising crushed
    VNQDĐ severely damaged by deaths and arrests, jailings and executions by French authorities[25]
Second World War
(1939–1945)

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

Allied Powers

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

Axis Powers

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

Allied victory

Vichy France (1940–1944)

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Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome
Franco-Thai War
(1940–1941)

Location: French Indochina

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

French Fourth Republic (1946–1958)

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Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome
War in Vietnam
(1945–1946)

Location: Vietnam

  France
  British Empire
  Japan Allied captured soldiers.
  Việt Minh Operational success
First Indochina War
(1946–1954)

Location: French Indochina

  France

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


Supported by:
  United States (1950–1954)

  Viet Minh

  Lao Issara (1945–1949)

  Khmer Issarak

  Japanese volunteers


Supported by:
  Soviet Union
  China (1949–1954)
  East Germany
  Poland[26]

French defeat
Malagasy Uprising
(1947–1948)

Location: Madagascar

  France   MDRM French victory
  • Uprising Crushed by French, various participants tried and executed
  • Scars on Malagasy society
Korean War
(1950–1953)

Location: Korea

  South Korea
  United States
  United Kingdom
  Australia
  Belgium
  Canada
  France
  Philippines
  Colombia
  Ethiopia
  Greece
  Luxembourg
  Netherlands
  New Zealand
  South Africa
  Thailand
  Turkey
  North Korea
  China
  Soviet Union
UN Victory
  • 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
Algerian War
(1954–1962)

Location: Algeria

  France   FLN French defeat
Bamileke War
(1955–1964)

Location: French Cameroon

Before 1960
  France

After 1960
  Cameroon[28]
  France

  UPC French-Cameroonian victory
Suez Crisis
(1956)

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

  Israel
  United Kingdom
  France
  Egypt Coalition military victory
Egyptian political victory
Ifni War
(1957–1958)

Location: Spanish Sahara, Ifni, Morocco

 
French wars since 1958
  Spain
  France
  Moroccan Army of Liberation Franco-Spanish victory

French Fifth Republic (1958–present)

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Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome
Basque conflict
(1959–2011)

Location: Basque country

  Spain

  France

Neo-fascist paramilitaries:

Basque National Liberation Movement:

Victory
Bizerte crisis
(1961)

Location: Bizerte, Tunisia

  France   Tunisia French victory
Sand War
(1963–1964)

Location: Around the oasis towns of Tindouf and Figuig

  Morocco
Support:
  France[29]
  Algeria
Support:
  Egypt[30]
  Cuba[31]
Military stalemate[32]
  • 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
Dirty War
(1974–1983)

Location: Argentina

  Argentina

Supported by:

  ERP

  Montoneros
  FAP Supported by:
  Cuba

Argentine government victory
Western Sahara War
(1975–1991)

Location: Western Sahara

  Morocco
  Mauritania (1975–1979)
  France (1977–78) Operation Lamantin, aid from 1978)
Supported by:
  Saudi Arabia
  United States
  Western Sahara

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

Inconclusive
  • Spanish withdrawal under the Madrid Accords (1976)
  • Mauritanian retreat and withdrawal of territorial claims
Angolan Civil War
(1975–2002)

Location: Angola

  UNITA
  FNLA (1975–1978)
  South Africa(1975–1991)
  Zaire(1975)
Supported By
  United States (1975–1991)
  Morocco (1970s)
  China (1975)
  FLEC
Material support:
  France
  MPLA
  Cuba(1975–1991)
  SWAPO (1975–1991)
  ANC(1975–1991)
Executive Outcomes (1993–1995)
  FLNC (1975–2001)
  Namibia (2001–2002)
Material support:
  Soviet Union (1975–1991)
  Yugoslavia (1975–1991)
  North Korea (1980s)
  Brazil
  Mexico
MPLA Victory
Corsican conflict
(1976–present)

Location: Corsica

  France Corsican nationalist paramilitaries Victory
Shaba I
(1977)

Location: Shaba Province, Zaire

  France
  Zaire
  Morocco
  Egypt
  Belgium
Supported by:
  United States
  China
  Saudi Arabia
  Sudan
  Nigeria
  Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC)
Supported by:
  Angola
  Soviet Union
  East Germany
Zairian victory
Chadian–Libyan Conflict
(1978–1987)

Location: Chad

  Anti-Libyan Chadian factions

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

  Libya

  Pro-Libyan Chadian factions

  PLO (1987)
Supported by:
  East Germany
  Soviet Union

Chadian-French victory
Shaba II
(1978)

Location: Shaba, Zaire

  France
  Zaire
  Belgium
  Morocco
  United States
Supported by
  China
  Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC)
Supported by
  Angola
  Cuba (alleged)
  Soviet Union (alleged)
Zairian victory
Rwandan Civil War
(1990−1994)

Location: Rwanda

  Rwanda
  Zaire (1990)
  France
  Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) victory
Gulf War
(1990–1991)

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

  Kuwait
  United States
  United Kingdom
  Saudi Arabia
  Egypt
  France
  Syria
  Morocco
  Oman
  Pakistan
  Canada
  United Arab Emirates
  Qatar
  Bangladesh
  Italy
  Australia
  Netherlands

other allies

  Iraq Coalition victory
  • Iraqi forces expelled from Kuwait
  • Kuwaiti independence restored
  • Destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure
Djiboutian Civil War
(1991–1994)

Location: Northern Djibouti

  Djibouti
Supported by :
  France
  FRUD Franco-Djiboutian victory
  • FRUD peace accord
Bosnian War
(1992–1995)

Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Herzeg-Bosnia
  Croatia
Support:
  NATO
  Republika Srpska
  Serbian Krajina
  Western Bosnia (from 1993)
Support:
  FR Yugoslavia
Croatian and Bosnian victory
Kosovo War
(1998–1999)

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

  KLA
  Belgium
  Canada
  Denmark
  France
  Germany
  Italy
  Luxembourg
  Netherlands
  Norway
  Portugal
  Spain
  Turkey
  United Kingdom
  United States
  FR Yugoslavia NATO Victory
War in Afghanistan
(2001–2014)

Location: Afghanistan

  ISAF   Taliban
  al-Qaeda
Taliban victory
Insurgency in the Maghreb
(2002–present)

Location: Maghreb, Sahara desert, Sahel

  Algeria
  Mauritania
  Tunisia
  Libya
  Mali
  Niger
  Chad
  France
  Turkey
  al-Qaeda Ongoing
First Ivorian Civil War
(2002–2007)

Location: Ivory Coast

 
A Forces nouvelles's member caught by the French Foreign Legion in 2004 after a plundering.
  Ivory Coast
  Young Patriots of Abidjan militia
  Liberian mercenaries
Supported by:
  Russia
  Bulgaria
  Belarus

  France
  UNOIC

Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire Victory
Haitian coup d'état
(2004)

Location: Haiti

  National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti

  MINUSTAH
  United States
  Chile
  Canada
  France

  Republic of Haiti Victory
Chadian Civil War
(2005–2010)

Location: Chad

  Chad
  France
  NMRD
  JEM
Rebels
  Janjaweed
Alleged support:
  Sudan (until 2010)
Victory
Somali Civil War
(2009–present)

Location: Somalia

  Somalia
  United States
  European Union
  Al-Qaeda Ongoing
Boko Haram insurgency
(2009–present)

Location: Northeast Nigeria

  Nigeria
  Cameroon
  Chad
  Niger
  Turkey
Supported by:
  Benin
  Canada
  China
  France
  Iran
  Israel
  Italy
  Spain
  United Kingdom
  United States
  Boko Haram Ongoing
Second Ivorian Civil War
(2010–2011)

Location: Ivory Coast

  New Forces
  Liberian mercenaries
  RDR
  UNOCI
  France
  Military of Ivory Coast
  Liberian mercenaries
  Young Patriots of Abidjan
  Ivorian Popular Front
Victory
First Libyan Civil War
(2011)

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.
  NATO   Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: Victory
Northern Mali Conflict
(2012–2022)

Location: Northern Mali

  Government of Mali

  France
  Turkey
ECOWAS

  National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
(MNLA)
  • Islamic Movement of Azawad
Mixed Results
  • Operation Serval Success
  • France withdrew from Mali in 2022[36]
Central African Republic Civil War
(2012–2021)

Location: Central African Republic

 
French soldiers as part of Operation Sangaris, authorized in late 2013.
  Central African Republic
  MINUSCA (since 2014)
MISCA (2013–2014)
MICOPAX (2013)

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

  FPRC
  UPC
  MPC
 
France ended support for Central African Republic in 2021.[37]
Iraqi Civil War
(2014–2017)

Location: Iraq

  Iraq
  CJTF–OIR
  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Victory
Opération Chammal
(2014–present)

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.
  France   Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Syria
Ongoing
  • French airstrikes on ISIL in Iraq and Syria
  • ISIL ground attacks on French special forces repelled
Operation Aspides
(19 February 2024 – present)

Location: Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Yemen

  European Union   Yemen (SPC) Ongoing

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Notes

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  1. ^ Abolished following the restoration of the neutral Papal States in 1799.
  2. ^ Short lived state that replaced the Kingdom of Naples in 1799.
  3. ^ Nominally the Holy Roman Empire, of which the Austrian Netherlands and the Duchy of Milan were under direct Austrian rule. Also encompassed many other Italian states, as well as other Habsburg states such as the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
  4. ^ Duchy of Warsaw as a state was in effect fully occupied by Russian and Prussian forces by May 1813, although most Poles remained loyal to Napoleon.
  5. ^ From 1854
  6. ^ a b From 1855
  7. ^ Until 1855
  8. ^ Until 1854
  9. ^ Battle of Daugavpils
  10. ^ After 1920
  11. ^ a b Volunteers
  12. ^ The Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups (GAL) was supported by some officials of the Spanish government, most notably José Barrionuevo.

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  1. ^ Including the Polish Legions formed in French-allied Italy in 1797, following the abolition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Third Partition in 1795.
  2. ^ The French Revolutionary Army and Dutch revolutionaries overthrew the Dutch Republic and established the Batavian Republic as a puppet state in its place.
  3. ^ Various conquered Italian states, including the Cisalpine Republic from 1797
  4. ^ Re-entered the war against Britain as an ally of France after signing the Second Treaty of San Ildefonso.
  5. ^ Left the war after signing the Treaty of The Hague (1795) with France.
  6. ^ Nominally the Holy Roman Empire, under Austrian rule, also encompassed many other Italian states, such as the   Duchy of Modena and the   Duchy of Massa. Left the war after signing the Treaty of Campo Formio with France.
  7. ^ a b c Left the war after signing the Peace of Basel with France.
  8. ^ a b Left the war after signing the Peace of Paris with France.
  9. ^ Left the war after signing the Treaty of Tolentino with France.
  10. ^ Left the war after signing the Treaty of Paris with France.
  11. ^ Virtually all of the Italian states, including the neutral   Republic of Genoa and the   Republic of Venice, as well the   Grand Duchy of Tuscany, were conquered following Napoleon's invasion in 1796 and became French satellite states. The   Principality of Monaco had been annexed in 1793. Even   Switzerland began to be involved into the conflict through its associated Three Leagues that lost the Val Telline.
  12. ^ Olesen, Jens E. (2008). "Schwedisch-Pommern in der schwedischen Politik nach 1806". In North, Michael; Riemer, Robert. Das Ende des Alten Reiches im Ostseeraum. Wahrnehmungen und Transformationen (in German). Böhlau. pp. 289. ISBN 3-412-20108-1.
  13. ^ "Belgian Corps 1832-35 in Portugal's Liberal Wars". 11 June 2006. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  14. ^ "Siege of Rome | Summary | Britannica".
  15. ^ Brown 1976, p. 239.
  16. ^ Brown 1976, p. 240.
  17. ^ Robert Ryal Miller (1961). "The American Legion of Honor in Mexico". Pacific Historical Review. Berkeley, California, United States: University of California Press. 30 (3). ISSN 0030-8684. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  18. ^ "The activities of the officer the Kuban Cossack army N. S. Leontjev in the Italian-Ethiopic war in 1895–1896".
  19. ^ Richard, Pankhurst. "Ethiopia's Historic Quest for Medicine, 6". The Pankhurst History Library. Archived from the original on 2011-10-03.
  20. ^ Patman 2009, pp. 27–30
  21. ^ "Soviet Appeasement, Collective Security, and the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935 and 1936". libcom.org.
  22. ^ Thomas Wilson, Edward (1974). Russia and Black Africa Before World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 57–58.
  23. ^ Haggai, Erlich (1997). Ras Alula and the scramble for Africa – a political biography: Ethiopia and Eritrea 1875–1897. African World Press.
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  25. ^ Rettig, pp. 316–317.
  26. ^ Radvanyi, Janos (1980). "Vietnam War Diplomacy: Reflections of a Former Iron Curtain Official" (PDF). Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College. Carlise Barracks, Pennsylvania. 10 (3): 8–15.
  27. ^ Teretta 2013, pp. 178–179.
  28. ^ "Cameroon - Moving toward independence | history - geography". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  29. ^ Nicole Grimaud (1 January 1984). La politique extérieure de l'Algérie (1962-1978). KARTHALA Editions. p. 198. ISBN 978-2-86537-111-2. L'armée française était en 1963 présente en Algérie et au Maroc. Le gouvernement français, officiellement neutre, comme le rappelle le Conseil des ministres du 25 octobre 1963, n'a pas pu empêcher que la coopération très étroite entre l'armée française et l'armée marocaine n'ait eu quelques répercussions sur le terrain. == The French Army was in 1963 present in Algeria and Morocco. The French government, officially neutral, as recalled by the Council of Ministers on October 25, 1963, could not prevent the very close cooperation between the French army and the Moroccan army from having some repercussions on the ground.
  30. ^ Ottaway 1970, p. 166.
  31. ^ Brian Latell (24 April 2012). Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. St. Martin's Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-137-00001-9. In this instance, unlike several others, the Cubans did no fighting; Algeria concluded an armistice with the Moroccan king.
  32. ^ "Within weeks the war ended in stalemate." Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1 edited by Alexander Mikaberidze Read here.
  33. ^ McSherry, J. Patrice (2011). "Chapter 5: "Industrial repression" and Operation Condor in Latin America". In Esparza, Marcia; Henry R. Huttenbach; Daniel Feierstein (eds.). State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years (Critical Terrorism Studies). Routledge. p. 107. ISBN 978-0415664578.
  34. ^ Greg Grandin (2011). The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. University of Chicago Press. p. 75. ISBN 9780226306902
  35. ^ Walter L. Hixson (2009). The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy. Yale University Press. p. 223. ISBN 0300151314
  36. ^ French Soldiers Quit Mali After 9 Years, Billions Spent and Many Lives Lost
  37. ^ France suspends military, budgetary support to Central African Republic, 8 June 2021

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