List of wars involving France explained

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.

*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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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 ÉmigrésFirst Coalition:
      Dutch Republic
      (1792–1795)[5]

      (1792–1797)[6]

      Papal States (1792–1797)[10]
      (1792–1796)

      (1792–1795)
      Sardinia (1792–1796)[11]
      Spain (1792–1795)
      (1792–1796)
      Other Italian states[12]

      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:

      French Republican victory
      War of the Pyrenees
      (1793–1795)Location: Pyrenees
      Kingdom of Spain
      French victory
      Haitian Revolution
      (1791–1804)Location: Saint-Domingue
      Slave owners
      Kingdom of France
      French Republic
      Ex-slaves
      French royalists
      Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (1793–1795)

      Ex-slaves (1802–1803)
      Haitian victory
      French invasion of Switzerland
      (1798)Location: Switzerland
      French victory
      War of the Second Coalition
      (1798–1802)

      Location: Europe, Middle East, Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas


      Spain
      Polish Legions
      French client republics:
      (until 1801)

      (pre-1801)
      (post-1801)
      (until 1799)


      (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 BrigandsFrench victory
      Quasi-War(1798–1800)Location: Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean Seas French Republic United StatesCo-belligerent: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

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

      First French Empire (1804–1814, 1815)

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      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 SwedenFrench victory
      Siege of Santo Domingo
      (1805)Location: Santo Domingo, Saint-Domingue
      present day Dominican Republic
      France HaitiFrench 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–NorwayCo-belligerent:
      Russian Empire (1808–09)
      Supported by:
      French Empire[13]
      United KingdomCo-belligerent:
      Sweden
      (1809, 1813–1814)
      British victory
      Finnish War
      (1808–1809)Location: Finland and Sweden
      Russian EmpireCo-belligerent:
      Denmark–NorwaySupported by:
      French Empire
      SwedenSupported by:
      United Kingdom
      Russian victory
      Dano-Swedish War of 1808–09
      (1808–1809)Location: Scandinavia
      Denmark–NorwayCo-belligerent:
      Russian Empire
      Supported by:
      French Empire
      SwedenCo-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

      Portugal

      Sicily
      Spain
      Tyrol

      French victory
      Tyrolean Rebellion
      (1809)Location: Tyrol
      French Empire Tyrolean partisansFrench victory
      • Uprising crushed
      French invasion of Russia
      (1812)Location: Eastern Europe
      Russian victory
      War of the Sixth Coalition
      (1813–1814)Location: Central and Eastern Europe

      Until January 1814

      Original coalition

      After the Armistice of Pläswitz

      After the Battle of Leipzig

      After January 1814

      • Denmark
      Coalition victory
      Hundred Days
      (1815)Location: France and Netherlands
      France
      Naples
      Austria
      Prussia
      Russia
      United Kingdom

      Bavaria
      Brunswick
      Denmark
      Kingdom of France
      Hanover
      Liechtenstein

      Netherlands
      Portugal

      Saxony

      Spain
      Sweden
      Switzerland
      Tuscany
      Württemberg
      Coalition-Bourbon victory

      Bourbon Restoration (1814–15, 1815–1830)

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      Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
      (1823)Location: Spain
      Kingdom of France
      Armée de la Foi
      Partisans of the CortesFrench 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
      (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
      FranceTrarzaFrench 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
      (Legitimists)OrléanistsOrléanist victory

      July Monarchy (1830–1848)

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      Liberal Wars
      (1828–34)

      Location: Portugal

      Liberals
      Supported by:
      United Kingdom (1828–1834)
      France (1830–1834)
      Belgian volunteers (1832–1834)[14]
      Spain (1833–1834)
      MiguelitesSupported by:
      Spain (1828–1833)
      Liberal victory
      French conquest of Algeria
      (1827–1830–1857)Location: Regency of Algiers

      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
      Franco-Belgian victory
      • Most European powers' recognition of Belgium's independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
      June Rebellion
      (1832)Location: Paris, France
      RepublicansOrléanist victory, rebellion crushed
      First Carlist War
      (1833–1840)Location: Spain
      French and Liberal victory
      First Franco-Mexican War
      (1838–1839)Location: Mexico
      MexicoFrench victory
      • Mexican government agrees to pay damages of 600,000 pesos
      Uruguayan Civil War
      (1839–1851)

      Location: Uruguay

      Colorados
      Unitarian Party

      France

      Riograndense Republic
      Italian redshirts
      Blancos
      Federalist Party (Argentina)
      Colorado victory, Arana-Southern Treaty for Anglo-French blockade of the Rio de la Plata
      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
      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
      Nguyễn dynastyFrench victory
      French Revolution of 1848
      (February 1848)Location: Paris, France

      Supported by:
      Republicans
      Socialists
      Republican victory

      Second French Republic (1848–1852)

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      First Italian War of Independence
      (1848–1849)Location: Lombardy; Rome
      Austrian Empire
      Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
      (1849)
      Kingdom of Sardinia

      Supported by:

      French-Austrian Victory
      • Austria keeps Lombardy–Venetia
      • French Victory over Roman Republic
        • Papal rule restored over Rome[15]
      June Days uprising
      (June 1848)Location: France
      Socialist rebelsSecond Republic victory
      • New constitution adopted from the provisional government
      French invasion of Honolulu
      (1849)Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
      Hawaiian KingdomVictory

      Second French Empire (1852–1870)

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      Taiping Rebellion
      (1850–1871)Location: China

        Later stages:

          Qing victory
          Bombardment of Salé
          (1851)Location: Morocco
          Sherifian EmpireFrench 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.
          Crimean War
          (1853–1856)Location: Crimea, Caucasus, Balkans, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East
          France


          Sardinia
          Supported by:


          Caucasus Imamate
          Circassia
          Abkhazia

          Russian Empire

          Kurdish rebels


          Greece

          Allied victory
          Second Opium War
          (1857)Location: China
          France


          United States
          Qing dynastyAllied victory
          Siege of Medina Fort
          (1857)Location: Médine, Mali
          FranceToucouleur EmpireFrench victory
          Cochinchina Campaign
          (1858–1862)Location: Vietnam
          Second French Empire
          Spain
          Nguyễn dynastyFranco-Spanish victory
          • Cochinchina (southern Vietnam) becomes a French colony
          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

          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)[16]
          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

          French Empire

          United States
          Chōshū DomainAllied victory
          French campaign against Korea
          (1866)Location: Korea
          France KoreaFrench defeat
          • French withdrawal, Korea reaffirms its isolationism
          Garibaldis Expedition to Rome 1867Location: Rome France
          volunteersFranco-Papal Victory
          Franco-Prussian War
          (1870–71)Location: France
          France North German Confederation

          Grand Duchy of Baden

          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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          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 TunisFrench victory
          • Tunisia becomes a French protectorate
          Mandingo Wars
          (1883–1898)Location: West Africa
          France Wassoulou EmpireFrench victory
          First Madagascar expedition
          (1883–1885)Location: Madagascar
          France Merina KingdomFrench 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 DahomeyFrench 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 DahomeyFrench victory
          • Dahomey conquered and incorporated as a French protectorate
          Franco-Siamese conflict
          (1893)Location: French Indochina, Siam
          French Republic
          • French Indochina
          SiamFrench victory
          First Italo-Ethiopian War
          (1894–1896)Location: Eritrea and Ethiopia


          [17] [18]
          [19] [20]


          Eritrean rebels[21]

          Ethiopian victory
          Second Madagascar expedition
          (1894–1895)Location: Madagascar
          France Merina KingdomFrench victory
          Cretan Revolt (1897–1898)Location: Crete Cretan revolutionaries
          Kingdom of Greece


          Italy

          (until April 12, 1898)
          (until March 16, 1898)
          French victory
          • Establishment of the Cretan State.
          • Withdraw of Ottoman forces from Crete.
          Boxer Rebellion
          (1899)Location: North China









          Spain
          Mutual Protection of Southeast China

          Boxers
          Qing dynasty
          Allied victory
          Rabih War
          (1899–1901)

          Location: West Africa

          France Kanem–Bornu EmpireFrench victory
          1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar
          (1904–1905)Location: Madagascar
          FranceRebelsFrench victory
          • Rebellion suppressed
          Ouaddai War
          (1909–1911)Location: Ouaddai Empire
          FranceOuaddai EmpireFrench 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

          Russian Empire
          United States






          Belgium

          Portugal
          Brazil

          Central Powers



          Allied victory
          Volta-Bani War
          (1915–1917)Location: Burkino Faso, Mali
          France Marka, Bwa, Lela, Nuni, and Bobo peopleFrench victory
          Kaocen revolt
          (1916–1917)Location: Northern Niger
          France Tuareg guerrillasFrench victory
          Thái Nguyên uprising
          (1917–1918)Location: Northern Vietnam
          France Vietnamese rebelsFrench victory
          • Uprising suppressed.
          Occupation of Constantinople
          (1918–1923)Location: Istanbul




          [22]
          Temporary occupation
          November 1918 insurgency in Alsace-LorraineLocation: Alsace-Lorraine Alsace-Lorraine Soviet RepublicThird Republic victory
          Hungarian-Romanian War
          (1918–1919)Location: Hungary, and Transylvania

          Supported by:



          Supported by:
          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

          United States
          France



          Estonia


          Poland



          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:

          Supported by:

          FSR Germany
          Supported by:
          Weimar victory
          Hungarian–Czechoslovak War
          (1918–1919)Location: Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia, Hungary

          Supported by:





          Supported by:
          Czechoslovakian victory
          1919 Luxembourgish rebellion
          (January 1919)Location: Luxembourg


          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

          Belarusian PR
          Latvia
          Ukrainian People's Republic
          Supported by:



          Russian Whites

          United States


          Polrewkom
          Polish victory
          Bender Uprising
          (1919)Location: Tighina, Kingdom of Romania (present day Bender, Moldova)
          France
          Romania
          Red Guards
          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
          (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
          France Syrian rebelsFrench 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
          • French Indochina
          Việt Nam Quốc Dân ĐảngFrench victory
          • Uprising crushed
            VNQDĐ severely damaged by deaths and arrests, jailings and executions by French authorities[23]
          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

          United Kingdom

          Free France
          Poland
          Canada
          Australia
          New Zealand




          Denmark
          Norway
          Netherlands
          Belgium
          Luxembourg

          Brazil
          Mexico
          Axis Powers








          Finland
          Thailand

          Allied victory

          Vichy France (1940–1944)

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          Franco-Thai War
          (1940–1941)Location: French Indochina
          • French Indochina
          ThailandThai tactical victory
          • 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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          War in Vietnam
          (1945–1946)Location: Vietnam
          France

          Japan Allied captured soldiers.
          Việt MinhOperational success
          • Restoration of French rule in Indochina
          • First Indochina War begins
          First Indochina War
          (1946–1954)Location: French Indochina
          France
          • (1945–1954)

          Cambodia
          (1953–1954)

          (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:

          China (1949–1954)

          Poland[24]

          French defeat
          Malagasy Uprising
          (1947–1948)Location: Madagascar
          France MDRMFrench victory
          • Uprising Crushed by French, various participants tried and executed
          • Scars on Malagasy society
          Korean War
          (1950–1953)Location: Korea

          United States
          United Kingdom
          Australia
          Belgium
          Canada
          France
          Philippines
          Colombia


          Luxembourg
          Netherlands
          New Zealand

          Thailand
          Turkey

          China
          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 FLNFrench defeat
          Bamileke War
          (1955–1964)Location: French Cameroon
          Before 1960
          France

          ----After 1960
          Cameroon[25]
          France

          UPCFrench-Cameroonian victory
          Suez Crisis
          (1956)Location: Gaza Strip and Egypt (Sinai and Suez Canal zone)
          Israel
          United Kingdom
          France
          EgyptCoalition military victory
          Egyptian political victory
          Ifni War
          (1957–1958)Location: Spanish Sahara, Ifni, Morocco

          France
          Moroccan Army of LiberationFranco-Spanish victory

          French Fifth Republic (1958–present)

          width=30% Conflictwidth=20% France & allieswidth=20% France's oppositionwidth=30% Outcome
          Basque conflict
          (1959–2011)Location: Basque country
          Spain FranceNeo-fascist paramilitaries:

          ----Basque National Liberation Movement

          Victory
          Bizerte crisis
          (1961)Location: Bizerte, Tunisia
          France TunisiaFrench victory
          Sand War
          (1963–1964)Location: Around the oasis towns of Tindouf and Figuig
          Morocco
          Support:
          France[26]
          Algeria
          Support:
          Egypt
          Cuba[27]
          Military stalemate[28]
          • 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
          FAPSupported by:
          Cuba
          Argentine government victory
          Western Sahara War
          (1975–1991)Location: Western Sahara

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


          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)
          (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:
          (1975–1991)
          (1975–1991)
          (1980s)
          Brazil
          Mexico
          MPLA Victory
          Corsican conflict
          (1976–present)Location: Corsica
          FranceCorsican nationalist paramilitaries Victory
          Shaba I
          (1977)Location: Shaba Province, Zaire
          France

          Morocco
          Egypt
          Belgium
          Supported by:
          United States
          China
          Saudi Arabia
          Sudan
          Nigeria
          Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC)
          Supported by:
          Angola

          Zairian victory
          Chadian–Libyan Conflict
          (1978–1987)Location: Chad
          Anti-Libyan Chadian factions

          France

          Nigeria
          Senegal
          Supported by:
          Sudan
          Egypt
          Israel
          Iraq
          United States

          Libya

          Pro-Libyan Chadian factions

          (1987)
          Supported by:

          Chadian-French victory
          Shaba II
          (1978)Location: Shaba, Zaire
          France

          Belgium
          Morocco
          United States
          Supported by
          China
          Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC)
          Supported by
          Angola
          Cuba (alleged)
          (alleged)
          Zairian victory
          Rwandan Civil War
          (1990−1994)Location: Rwanda
          Rwanda
          (1990)
          France
          Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) victory
          Gulf War
          (1990–1991)Location: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and
          the Persian Gulf

















          other allies
          IraqCoalition 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
          FRUDFranco-Djiboutian victory
          • FRUD peace accord
          Bosnian War
          (1992–1995)Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina


          Croatia
          Support:


          Western Bosnia (from 1993)
          Support:
          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
          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

          Turkey
          al-QaedaOngoing
          First Ivorian Civil War
          (2002–2007)Location: Ivory Coast

          Young Patriots of Abidjan militia
          Liberian mercenaries
          Supported by:


          ----
          UNOIC
          Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'IvoireVictory
          Haitian coup d'état
          (2004)Location: Haiti
          National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti---- MINUSTAH
          United States
          Chile
          Canada
          France
          HaitiVictory
          Chadian Civil War
          (2005–2010)Location: Chad
          Chad
          France
          NMRD
          JEM
          Victory
          Somali Civil War
          (2009–present)Location: Somalia
          Somalia
          United States
          Al-QaedaOngoing
          Boko Haram insurgency
          (2009–present)Location: Northeast Nigeria
          Nigeria
          Cameroon
          Chad
          Niger
          Turkey
          Supported by:
          Benin
          Canada
          China
          France

          Israel
          Italy
          Spain
          United Kingdom
          United States
          Boko HaramOngoing
          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
          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[32]
          Central African Republic Civil War
          (2012–2021)Location: Central African Republic
          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.[33]
          Iraqi Civil War
          (2014–2017)Location: Iraq

          Islamic State of Iraq and the LevantVictory
          Opération Chammal
          (2014–present)Location: Iraq, Syria, Libya
          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
          Yemen (SPC) Ongoing

          See also

          References

          Bibliography

          Notes and References

          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. Left the war after signing the Peace of Basel with France.
          8. Left the war after signing the Peace of Paris with France.
          9. Left the war after signing the Peace of Paris with France.
          10. Left the war after signing the Treaty of Tolentino with France.
          11. Left the war after signing the Treaty of Paris with France.
          12. 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.
          13. 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. .
          14. Web site: Belgian Corps 1832-35 in Portugal's Liberal Wars. 11 June 2006. 17 February 2013.
          15. Web site: Siege of Rome | Summary | Britannica.
          16. 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.
          17. Web site: The activities of the officer the Kuban Cossack army N. S. Leontjev in the Italian-Ethiopic war in 1895–1896.
          18. Web site: Ethiopia's Historic Quest for Medicine, 6 . The Pankhurst History Library . Pankhurst . Richard . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111003141829/http://www.linkethiopia.org/guide/pankhurst/medicine/medicine_6.html . 2011-10-03.
          19. Web site: Soviet Appeasement, Collective Security, and the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935 and 1936. libcom.org.
          20. Book: Thomas Wilson, Edward . 1974 . Russia and Black Africa Before World War II . New York . Cambridge University Press . 57–58.
          21. Book: Haggai. Erlich. Ras Alula and the scramble for Africa – a political biography: Ethiopia and Eritrea 1875–1897. 1997. African World Press.
          22. Web site: Occupation during and after the War (Ottoman Empire) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1). encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net.
          23. Rettig, pp. 316–317.
          24. 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.
          25. Web site: Cameroon - Moving toward independence history - geography. Encyclopædia Britannica. 30 April 2018.
          26. Book: Nicole Grimaud . La politique extérieure de l'Algérie (1962-1978) . 1 January 1984 . KARTHALA Editions . 978-2-86537-111-2 . 198 . 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.

            .
          27. Book: Brian Latell . Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy . 24 April 2012 . St. Martin's Press . 978-1-137-00001-9 . 164 . In this instance, unlike several others, the Cubans did no fighting; Algeria concluded an armistice with the Moroccan king..
          28. "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.
          29. Book: McSherry . J. Patrice . State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years (Critical Terrorism Studies) . . 2011 . 978-0415664578 . Esparza, Marcia . 107 . Chapter 5: "Industrial repression" and Operation Condor in Latin America . J. Patrice McSherry . Henry R. Huttenbach . Daniel Feierstein.
          30. [Greg Grandin]
          31. Walter L. Hixson (2009). The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy. Yale University Press. p. 223.
          32. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/world/africa/mali-france-military-operation.html French Soldiers Quit Mali After 9 Years, Billions Spent and Many Lives Lost
          33. https://www.africanews.com/2021/06/07/france-suspends-military-budgetary-support-to-central-african-republic// France suspends military, budgetary support to Central African Republic