Anglo-French Wars Explained

The Anglo-French Wars (1109–1815) were a series of conflicts between the territories of the Kingdom of England (and its successor state, the United Kingdom) and the Kingdom of France (succeeded by a republic). Their conflicts spanned throughout the Middle Ages to the modern age.

Middle Ages

High Middle Ages

See also: Capet–Plantagenet feud.

• Anglo-French War (1109–1113) – first conflict between the Capetian dynasty and the House of Normandy post-Norman conquest
• Anglo-French War (1116–1119) – conflict over English possession of Normandy
• Anglo-French War (1123–1135) – conflict that amalgamated into The Anarchy
• Anglo-French War (1158–1189) – first conflict between the Capetian dynasty and the House of Plantagenet
• Anglo-French War (1193–1199) – conflict between King Richard the Lionheart and King Philip Augustus
• Anglo-French War (1202–1204) – French invasion of Normandy
  • Anglo-French War (1213–1214) – conflict between King Philip Augustus and King John of England Anglo-French War (1215–1217) – the French intervention in the First Barons War
• Anglo-French War (1224) – known as the Poitou War
• Anglo-French War (1242–1243) – known as the Saintonge War

Late Middle Ages

• Anglo-French War (1294–1303) – known as the Gascon War in English and the Guyenne War in French
• Anglo-French War (1324) – known as the War of Saint-Sardos
• Anglo-French War (1337–1453) – the Hundred Years' War and its peripheral conflicts, often broken up into:
  • Edwardian War (1337–1360)
  • Caroline War (1369–1389)
  • Lancastrian War (1415–1453)
• Anglo-French War (1496–1498) – part of the Italian War of 1494–1498

Modern period

1500s and 1600s

See also: Second Hundred Years' War.

• Anglo-French War (1512–1514) – part of the War of the League of Cambrai
• Anglo-French War (1522–1526) – part of the Italian War of 1521–1526
• Anglo-French War (1542–1546) – part of the Italian War of 1542–1546
• Anglo-French War (1557–1559) – part of the Italian War of 1551–1559
• English expedition to France (1562–1563) - English intervention in the first of the French Wars of Religion.
• Anglo-French War (1627–1629) – the English intervention during the Huguenot rebellions
• Anglo-French War (1666–1667) – minor corollary of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
• Anglo-French War (1688–1697) – part of the Nine Years' War and its peripheral conflicts

1700s

• Anglo-French War (1702–1713) – part of the War of the Spanish Succession and its peripheral conflicts
• Anglo-French War (1744–1748) – part of the War of the Austrian Succession and its peripheral conflicts
• Anglo-French War (1746–1763) – also known as the Carnatic Wars
• Anglo-French War (1756–1763) – part of the Seven Years' War and its peripheral conflicts
• Anglo-French War (1778–1783) – part of the American Revolutionary War and its peripheral conflicts
• Anglo-French War (1793–1802) – part of the French Revolutionary Wars and their peripheral conflicts

After 1802

• Anglo-French War (1803–1815) – part of the Napoleonic Wars and their peripheral conflicts
• Anglo-Vichy French War (1940–42) – part of WWII; Britain fought alongside Free France against Vichy France

Crises

Events that nearly brought the two countries to war:

• Corsican Crisis
• Falklands Crisis of 1770
• Nootka Crisis
• Rio Nuñez incident
• Fashoda Incident
• Levant Crisis

See also

• 1993 Cherbourg incident
• Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
• Auld Alliance
• Entente Cordiale
• France–United Kingdom relations
• Second Hundred Years' War

Bibliography and external links

• Book: Kohn . George C . Dictionary of Wars. 2006 . Infobase Publishing . 9781438129167.
• Web site: Lee . Roger . Anglo-French Wars . The History Guy . 1 January 2020.