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Wars involving France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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
Conflict | France & allies | France's opposition | Outcome |
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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
|
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
|
Conflict | France & allies | France's opposition | Outcome |
---|---|---|---|
Liberal Wars (1828–34) Location: Portugal |
Liberals Supported by:
|
Miguelites
Supported by:
|
Liberal victory |
French conquest of Algeria (1827–1830–1857) Location: Regency of Algiers |
France | Ottoman Empire
Emirate of Abdelkader |
French victory |
Belgian Revolution (1830–31) Location: The Low Countries |
Belgian rebels France |
United Netherlands | Franco-Belgian victory
|
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
|
Uruguyan Civil War (1839–1851) Location: Uruguay |
Colorados
|
|
Colorado victory |
Second Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841) Location: The Levant |
Ottoman victory
| ||
First Franco-Moroccan War (1844) Location: Morocco |
France | French victory | |
Franco-Tahitian War (1844–1847) Location: Tahiti |
France | 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) |
July Monarchy Supported by: United Kingdom |
Republican victory
|
Conflict | France & allies | France's opposition | Outcome |
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First Italian War of Independence (1848–1849) |
Austrian Empire Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia France (1849) |
Kingdom of Sardinia
Supported by: |
French-Austrian Victory
|
June Days uprising (June 1848) Location: France |
French Second Republic | Socialist rebels | Second Republic victory
|
French invasion of Honolulu (1849) |
France | Hawaiian Kingdom | Victory |
Conflict | France & allies | France's opposition | Outcome |
---|---|---|---|
Franco-Thai War (1940–1941) Location: French Indochina |
Vichy France | Thailand | Inconclusive
|
Conflict | France & allies | France's opposition | Outcome |
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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 Supported by: |
Viet Minh Lao Issara (1945–1949)
Japanese volunteers Supported by: |
French defeat
|
Malagasy Uprising (1947–1948) Location: Madagascar |
France | MDRM | French victory
|
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
|
Algerian War (1954–1962) Location: Algeria |
France | FLN | French defeat
|
Bamileke War (1955–1964) Location: French Cameroon |
Before 1960 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 |
Spain France |
Moroccan Army of Liberation | Franco-Spanish victory |
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