List of wars involving France

Location: Gaul

Paul Jamin, Brennus and His Share of the Spoils, 1893

• Sack of Rome by Brennus the Gaul

Location: Sentinum, Italy

Location: Arretium, Italy

Location: Lake Vadimo, Italy

Location: Faesulae, Italy

Location: Telamon, Italy

• Roman influence extended over northern Italy

Location: Clastidium, Italy

Location: Cremona, Italy

Location: Placentia, Italy

(Part of the Third Samnite War) Location: Sentinum, Italy

Location: Gaul, Germania, and Britannia

Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar, 1899, by Lionel Royer

Roman silver denarius with a captured Gaul's head following the campaigns of Caesar, 48 BC

• Battle of Magetobriga
• Battle of the Arar
• Battle of Bibracte
• Battle of Vosges
• Battle of the Axona
• Battle of the Sabis
• Battle of Octodurus
• Siege of Avaricum
• Battle of Gergovia
• Siege of Alesia

• Roman Republic annexes Gaul as a province

Location: apud Catalaunos (Châlons-en-Champagne, France)

Map of the Roman Empire with the breakaway states of Palmyra and Gaul, 271 AD

• Territories of the breakaway Gallic Empire re-annexed by Rome

Location: Senegal

Kingdom of Cayor
Jolof Empire
Baol
Kingdom of Sine
Saloum

• France conquers territory of present-day Senegal

Location: Siam

 

• French East India Company

Dutch East India Company

• Establishment of Ban Phlu Luang dynasty
• Expulsion of French troops in Bangkok

Location: North America

• Acadia and New England Theatre
  • Raid on Dover
  • Siege of Pemaquid (1689)
  • Raid on Salmon Falls
  • Battle of Port Royal
  • Battle of Fort Loyal
  • Battle of Chedabucto
  • Raid on York
  • Raid on Wells
  • Raid on Oyster River
  • Battle of Fundy Bay
  • Siege of Pemaquid (1696)
  • Raid on Chignecto
  • Siege of Fort Nashwaak
• Quebec, New York, and Newfoundland Theatre
  • Lachine massacre
  • Schenectady massacre
  • Battle of Quebec
  • Battle of La Prairie
  • Mohawk Valley Raid
  • Avalon Peninsula Campaign
  • Siege of Ferryland
  • Raid on Cape Broyle
  • Raid on Bay Bulls
  • Raid on Petty Harbour
  • Siege of St. John's
  • Raid on Conception Bay
  • Battle of Carbonear
• Hudson Bay Theatre
  • Hudson Bay Expedition
  • Battle of Fort Albany
  • Battle of Fort Albany (1693)
  • Capture of York Factory
  • Battle of Hudson's Bay

• Treaty of Ryswick

Location: Great Lakes region

• 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

Location: North America

 

•  New France

Spain

• New Spain

Wabanaki Confederacy
Caughnawaga Mohawk
Choctaw
Timucua
Apalachee
Natchez

 

• English America

 Great Britain (after 1707)

• British America

Muscogee (Creek)
Chickasaw
Yamasee

• Treaty of Utrecht
• Treaty of Portsmouth

Location: Mississippi River

• Treaty of Paris

Location: Carnatic region, South India

• Third Carnatic War
  • Battle of Chandannagar
  • Battle of Plassey
  • Battle of Cuddalore (1758)
  • Battle of Negapatam (1758)
  • Battle of Condore
  • Battle of Pondicherry
  • Siege of Masulipatam
  • Siege of Madras
  • Battle of Wandiwash
  • Siege of Pondicherry (1760)

• French East India Company

• British East India Company

Location: North America

• Raid on Canso
• Siege of Annapolis Royal (1744)
• Siege of Annapolis Royal (1745)
• Siege of Port Toulouse
• Siege of Louisbourg (1745)
• Action of 15 June 1745
• Battle at Port-la-Joye
• Northeast Coast Campaign (1745)
• Raid on Saratoga
• Duc d'Anville Expedition
• Siege of Fort Massachusetts
• Battle of Grand Pré
• Siege of Fort at Number 4

 

•  New France

Wabanaki Confederacy

 

• British America

Iroquois Confederacy

• Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

Location: Acadia and Nova Scotia

 

•  New France

Wabanaki Confederacy

• Mi'kmaq militia
• Maliseet militia

 

• British America

Location: North America

• St. Lawrence and Mohawk theater
  • Battle of Lake George
  • Battle of Fort Bull
  • Battle of Fort Oswego (1756)
  • Battle on Snowshoes (1757)
  • Battle of Sabbath Day Point
  • Siege of Fort William Henry
  • Attack on German Flatts (1757)
  • Battle on Snowshoes
  • Battle of Carillon
  • Battle of Fort Frontenac
  • Battle of La Belle-Famille
  • Battle of Fort Niagara
  • Battle of Ticonderoga
  • Battle of Beauport
  • Battle of the Plains of Abraham
  • St. Francis Raid
  • Battle of Sainte-Foy
  • Battle of the Thousand Islands
• Ohio Valley Theater
  • Battle of Jumonville Glen
  • Battle of the Great Meadows
  • Braddock Expedition
  • Battle of the Monongahela
  • Forbes Expedition
  • Battle of Fort Duquesne
  • Battle of Fort Ligonier
• Atlantic theater
  • Action of 8 June 1755
  • Battle of Fort Beauséjour
  • Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755)
  • Battle of Petitcodiac
  • Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1756)
  • Louisbourg Expedition (1757)
  • Battle of Bloody Creek (1757)
  • Siege of Louisbourg (1758)
  • Petitcodiac River Campaign
  • Ile Saint-Jean Campaign
  • Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign (1758)
  • St. John River Campaign
  • Battle of Restigouche
  • Battle of Signal Hill

 

•  New France

Wabanaki Confederacy

• Abenaki
• Mi'kmaq militia

Algonquin
Lenape
Ojibwa
Ottawa
Shawnee
Wyandot

 

• British America

Iroquois Confederacy
Catawba
Cherokee (before 1758)

• Treaty of Paris

Location: West Indies

• Battle of Cap-Français
• Invasion of Martinique (1759)
• Invasion of Guadeloupe (1759)
• Invasion of Dominica (1761)
• Invasion of Martinique (1762)

Location: West Africa

• Capture of Senegal
• Capture of Gorée

Location: Larache, Morocco

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: Santo Domingo, Saint-Domingue
present day Dominican Republic

• Haitian withdrawal from Santo Domingo.

Location: Waalo, West Africa

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: Mexico

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

Location: Morocco

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

Location: Tahiti

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

Location: China

• 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.^[1]
• France had desired a revolt against the governor of Salé to force repayment and avoid destruction of the city, but this did not occur.^[2]

Location: Médine, Mali

Location: Vietnam

• Cochinchina (southern Vietnam) becomes a French colony

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

• Establishment, then fall, of the Second Mexican Empire
• French withdrawal

Location: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

Location: Korea

• French withdrawal, Korea reaffirms its isolationism

Location: Tunisia

• Tunisia becomes a French protectorate

Location: West Africa

Location: Madagascar

Location: Southeast mainland China, Taiwan, northern Vietnam

• Battle of Foochow
• 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 strategic victory for Qing forces on land
• 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

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: Madagascar

Location: Ouaddai Empire

• Annexation of Ouaddai Empire

Location: North Africa

• Morocco

Location: French protectorate of Morocco

• Battle of El Herri

• Morocco

Location: Burkino Faso, Mali

• French West Africa

Location: Northern Niger

• French West Africa

Location: Northern Vietnam

• Uprising suppressed.

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: 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

• 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^[3]

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 Lea
• 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)

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

• 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: Algeria

French forces killed Algerian rebels, December 1954

• 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: Spanish Sahara, Ifni, Morocco

Location: Bizerte, Tunisia

Location: Afghanistan

• Mission Héraclès
• French forces in Afghanistan
  • Operation Anaconda
  • Operation Mountain Viper
  • Operation Eagle's Summit
  • Battle of Afghanya
  • 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

Location: Ivory Coast

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

 

 

 

 

 France
UNOIC

Location: Maghreb, Sahara desert, Sahel

• Operation Barkhane

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 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 Gaddafi government
• Continuation of Libyan Crisis
• Escalation of interfactional violence
• Which led to beginning of Second Libyan Civil War
• Rise of ISIS in Libya

Location: Northern Mali

• Opération Serval

• Military of Mali

 France
ECOWAS

• Islamic Movement of Azawad

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