Conflict |
Combatant 1 |
Combatant 2 |
Results |
French conquest of Senegal (1659–1895)
Location: Senegal |
France |
Waalo Kingdom
Kingdom of Cayor
Jolof Empire
Baol
Kingdom of Sine
Saloum |
French Victory
- France conquers territory of present-day Senegal
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Siamese revolution of 1688 (1688)
Location: Siam |
Prasat Thong dynasty Kingdom of France
|
Phetracha and various Siamese lords Supported by:
- Dutch East India Company
|
French Defeat
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King William's War (1688–1697)
Location: North America
|
France New France Wabanaki Confederacy |
England Massachusetts Bay Colony English America Haudenosaunee |
Status quo ante bellum
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French and Iroquois Wars (17th century)
Location: Great Lakes region |
Huron, Erie, Neutral, Odawa, Ojibwe, Mississaugas, Potawatomi, Algonquin, Shawnee, Wenro, Mahican, Innu, Abenaki, Miami, Illinois Confederation, other nations allied with France Supported by: France |
Iroquois Supported by: England, Dutch Republic |
Military Stalemate
- Great Peace of Montreal
- Growth of French token influence in the Great Lakes region
- Huron-Wendat Confederacy destroyed or assimilated
- Military refugee migration results in expansion of Iroquois hunting grounds down to Mississippi River
- Further Iroquois territorial expansion halted in military campaigns by the Council of Three Fires
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Queen Anne's War (1702–1713)
Location: North America |
France
Spain
Wabanaki Confederacy Caughnawaga Mohawk Choctaw Timucua Apalachee Natchez |
England (before 1707)
Great Britain (after 1707)
Muscogee (Creek) Chickasaw Yamasee |
French Defeat
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Chickasaw Wars (1721–1763)
Location: Mississippi River |
France Choctaw Illini |
Great Britain Chickasaw |
Chickasaw victory
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Carnatic Wars (1744–1763)
Location: Carnatic region, South India
|
Kingdom of France
|
Kingdom of Great Britain
|
French Defeat |
King George's War (1744–1748)
Location: North America
|
France
Wabanaki Confederacy |
Great Britain
Iroquois Confederacy |
Status quo ante bellum
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Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755)
Location: Acadia and Nova Scotia |
France
Wabanaki Confederacy
|
Great Britain
|
French Defeat |
French and Indian War (1754–1763)
Location: North America
- St. Lawrence and Mohawk theater
- Ohio Valley Theater
- Atlantic theater
|
France
Wabanaki Confederacy
Algonquin Lenape Ojibwa Ottawa Shawnee Wyandot |
Great Britain
Iroquois Confederacy
Catawba Cherokee (before 1758) |
French Defeat
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West Indies Campaign (Seven Years' War) (1757–1762)
Location: West Indies
|
France |
Great Britain |
French Defeat |
West African Campaign (Seven Years' War)) (1758)
Location: West Africa
|
France |
Great Britain |
French Defeat |
Larache expedition (1765)
Location: Larache, Morocco |
France |
Morocco |
French Defeat |
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
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Siege of Santo Domingo (1805)
Location: Santo Domingo, Saint-Domingue present day Dominican Republic |
French Republic |
Haiti |
French victory
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Franco-Trarzan War of 1825 (1825)
Location: Waalo, West Africa |
Kingdom of France |
Emirate of Trarza |
French victory |
French conquest of Algeria (1827–1830–1857)
Location: Regency of Algiers
|
Kingdom of France |
Ottoman Empire
Emirate of Abdelkader Kingdom of Ait Abbas Kel Ahaggar Sultanate of Morocco |
French victory
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First Franco-Mexican War (1838–1839)
Location: Mexico |
France |
Mexico |
French victory
- Mexican government agrees to pay damages of 600,000 pesos
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First Franco-Moroccan War (1844)
Location: Morocco
|
France |
Morocco |
French victory |
Franco-Tahitian War (1844–1847)
Location: Tahiti |
France |
Toucouleur Empire |
French victory |
Bombardment of Tourane (1847)
Location: Off Tourane (Da Nang), South Central Coast of Vietnam |
France |
Nguyễn dynasty |
French victory |
Taiping Rebellion (1850–1871)
Location: China |
|
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom |
Qing victory
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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.
- France had desired a revolt against the governor of Salé to force repayment and avoid destruction of the city, but this did not occur.
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Siege of Medina Fort (1857)
Location: Médine, Mali |
France |
Toucouleur Empire |
French victory |
Cochinchina Campaign (1858–1862)
Location: Vietnam |
French Empire Kingdom of Spain |
Nguyễn Dynasty |
Franco-Spanish victory
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Second Franco-Mexican War (1862–1867)
Location: Mexico
|
France Mexican Empire |
Mexican republicans |
Mexican republican victory
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Shimonoseki Campaign (1863–1864)
Location: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan |
British Empire French Empire Netherlands United States |
Chōshū Domain |
Allied victory |
French campaign against Korea (1866)
Location: Korea |
French Empire |
Kingdom of Joseon |
French Defeat
- French withdrawal, Korea reaffirms its isolationism
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Siege of Medina Fort (1881)
Location: Tunisia |
France |
Beylik of Tunis |
French victory
- Tunisia becomes a French protectorate
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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 |
Qing dynasty Black Flag Army Nguyễn dynasty |
Both sides declared victory
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Tonkin Campaign (1883–1886)
Location: Northern Vietnam |
France |
Qing dynasty Black Flag Army Nguyễn dynasty |
French victory
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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
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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
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Franco-Siamese War (1893)
Location: French Indochina, Siam |
French Republic
|
Kingdom of Siam |
French victory
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Second Madagascar expedition (1894–1895)
Location: Madagascar |
France |
Merina Kingdom |
French victory |
Ouaddai War (1909–1911)
Location: Ouaddai Empire |
France |
Ouaddai Empire |
French victory
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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 |
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
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Franco-Syrian War (1920)
Location: Syria
|
France
|
Arab Kingdom of Syria
|
French victory
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Rif War (1920–1927)
Location: Morocco |
Spain France (1925–1926) Jebala tribes |
Republic of the Rif Jebala tribes |
Franco-Spanish victory
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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[3]
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Franco-Thai War (1940–1941)
Location: French Indochina
|
Vichy France
|
Thailand |
Indecisive
- Japanese-mediated ceasefire
- On Japanese decision, disputed territories in French Indochina ceded by France to Thailand
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War in Vietnam (1945–46) (1945–1946)
Location: Vietnam |
France British Empire Japan |
Việt Minh |
Operational success
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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 |
French Defeat
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Malagasy Uprising (1947–1948)
Location: Madagascar |
France |
MDRM |
French victory
- Uprising Crushed by French, various participants tried and executed
- Scars on Malagasy society
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Algerian War (1954–1962)
Location: Algeria
French forces killed Algerian rebels, December 1954
|
France |
FLN |
Military stalemate
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Ifni War (1957–1958)
Location: Spanish Sahara, Ifni, Morocco |
Spain France |
Moroccan Army of Liberation |
Franco-Spanish victory |
Bizerte crisis (1961)
Location: Bizerte, Tunisia |
France |
Tunisia |
French victory |