List of wars involving France

The following is an incomplete list of French wars and battles from the Gauls to modern France.

Gauls (Transalpine and Cisalpine)

Roman–Gallic Wars
- Battle of the Allia
- Battle of Arretium
- Battle of Lake Vadimo
- Battle of Faesulae
- Battle of Telamon
- Battle of Clastidium
- Battle of Cremona
- Battle of Mutina
Third Samnite War
- Battle of Sentinum

Gallic Wars
- 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
Battle of Châlons (274)

Franks and the Carolingian Empire

Conquest of Lombardy
- Siege of Pavia
Saxon Wars
Spanish campaign
- Battle of Roncevaux Pass
Campaigns Against Avars and Slavs
- Siege of Trsat
Reconquista
- Battle of Pancorbo
- Battle of Albelda
Battle of Fontenoy
Franco-Breton wars
Frankish–Vikings battles
Battle of Soissons

Middle Ages

Battle of Pontlevoy
Norman rule in Southern Italy
Duchy of Normandy
Byzantine–Norman wars
Reconquista
- Siege of Barbastro
- Battle of Cutanda
Breton–Norman War
- Battle of Dinan
- Battle of Pouancé
- Battle of Segré
Norman conquest of England
Crusades
- First Crusade
- Seljuk–Crusader War
  - Siege of Nicaea
  - Battle of Dorylaeum
  - Siege of Antioch
  - Siege of Ma'arra
  - Battle of Melitene
  - Crusade of 1101
    - Battle of Mersivan
    - First Battle of Heraclea
    - Second Battle of Heraclea
  - Battle of Ramla (1101)
  - Battle of Ramla (1102)
  - Siege of Tripoli
  - Battle of Harran
  - Battle of Artah
  - Battle of Ramla (1105)
  - Norwegian Crusade
  - Siege of Sidon
  - Battle of Shaizar
  - Battle of Al-Sannabra
  - Battle of Sarmin
  - Battle of Ager Sanguinis
  - Battle of Hab
  - Battle of Azaz
  - Battle of Marj al-Saffar
- Fatimid–Crusader War
- 1113–15 Balearic Islands expedition
- Zengid–Crusader War
- Siege of Shaizar
- Second Crusade
- Siege of Bilbeis
- Capture of Bilbeis
- Siege of Damietta (1169)
- Ayyubid–Crusader War
- Third Crusade
  - Siege of Acre
  - Battle of Arsuf
- Fourth Crusade
  - Battle of the Olive Grove of Koundouros
  - Albigensian Crusade
    - Battle of Muret
- Fifth Crusade
- Seventh Crusade
- Eighth Crusade
- Ninth Crusade
Norman England vs France conflicts
Baussenque Wars

Normandy campaigns of 1200–1204
- Battle of Mirebeau
- Siege of Château Gaillard
Anglo-French War (1202–14)
Reconquista
- Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
First Barons' War
Saintonge War
- Battle of Taillebourg
- Siege of Saintes
Conquest of Sicily by Charles of Anjou
War of the Sicilian Vespers
Franco-Flemish War
Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–28
- Battle of Cassel
War of Saint-Sardos
Invasion of England (1326)
Hundred Years' War
- Edwardian phase
  - Battle of Arnemuiden
  - English Channel naval campaign
  - Battle of Sluys
  - Battle of Saint-Omer
  - Siege of Tournai
  - War of the Breton Succession
    - Battle of Champtoceaux
    - Battle of Morlaix
    - Battle of St Pol de Léon
    - Battle of La Roche-Derrien
    - Combat of the Thirty
    - Battle of Mauron
    - Battle of Auray
  - Battle of Bergerac
  - Battle of Auberoche
  - Battle of Caen
  - Battle of Blanchetaque
  - Battle of Crécy
  - Siege of Calais
  - Battle of Lunalonge
  - Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer
  - Battle of Ardres
  - Battle of Saintes
  - Capture of Saint-Jean-d'Angély
  - Capture of Lusignan
  - Battle of Comborn
  - Battle of Montmuran
  - Battle of Poitiers
  - Battle of Cocherel
  - Peasant Jacquerie
    - Battle of Mello
  - Battle of Launac
  - Castilian Civil War
  - War of the Two Peters
- Caroline phase
  - Battle of Nájera
  - Battle of Montiel
  - Siege of Limoges
  - Battle of Pontvallain
  - Battle of La Rochelle
  - Battle of Chiset
  - Battle of Roosebeke
  - Despenser's Crusade
  - Battle of Dunkirk (1383)
  - Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85
    - Battle of Aljubarrota
  - French invasion of Scotland (1385)
  - Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War
  - Battle of Blackpool Sands
- Lancastrian phase
  - Siege of Harfleur
  - Battle of Agincourt
  - Battle of Valmont
  - Siege of Rouen
  - Battle of Fresnay
  - Battle of Baugé
  - Battle of Mello
  - Battle of Cravant
  - Battle of La Brossinière
  - Battle of Verneuil
  - Battle of St. James
  - Loire Campaign (1429)
  - Siege of Compiègne
  - Siege of La Charité
  - Battle of Gerberoy
  - Battle of Rouen (1449)
  - Battle of Formigny
  - Battle of Castillon
Neapolitan Campaigns of Louis the Great
Ottoman wars in Europe
- Battle of Nicopolis
Old Zürich War
- Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs
Burgundian Wars
Battle of Guinegate
Mad War

Ancien Régime

Italian Wars
- Italian War of 1494–98
  - Battle of Rapallo
  - Battle of Mordano
  - Battle of Seminara
  - Battle of Fornovo
  - Siege of Novara
- Italian War of 1499–1504
- War of the League of Cambrai
  - Battle of Agnadello
  - Siege of Padua
  - Siege of Mirandola
  - Sack of Brescia
  - Battle of Ravenna
  - Spanish conquest of Navarre
  - Battle of Saint-Mathieu
  - Battle of Novara
  - Battle of Guinegate
  - Siege of Dijon
  - Battle of Marignano
- Italian War of 1521–26
  - Battle of Pampeluna
  - Battle of Noáin
  - Siege of Mézières
  - Siege of Tournai
  - Battle of Bicocca
  - Siege of Genoa
  - Battle of San Marcial
  - Battle of Fuenterrabía
  - Battle of the Sesia
  - Siege of Marseille
  - Italian Campaign of 1524–26
  - Battle of Pavia
- War of the League of Cognac
  - Siege of Naples
  - Neapolitan Campaign of 1528
  - Battle of Landriano
- Italian War of 1536–38
- Italian War of 1542–46
  - Siege of Perpignan
  - Battle of Muros Bay
  - Siege of Nice
  - Battle of Düren
  - Battle of Ceresole
  - Battle of Serravalle
  - Siege of St. Dizier
  - Battle of Lagny-sur-Marne
  - Battle of Montreuil
  - First Siege of Boulogne
  - Second Siege of Boulogne
  - Battle of the Solent
  - French invasion of the Isle of Wight
  - Battle of Bonchurch
  - Battle of Beachy Head
- Italian War of 1551–59
  - Siege of Tripoli
  - Siege of Mirandola
  - Siege of Metz
  - Battle of Ponza
  - Invasion of Corsica
  - Battle of Marciano
  - Battle of Renty
  - Battle of St. Quentin
  - Siege of Calais
  - Battle of Thionville
  - Battle of Gravelines
Scottish Reformation
- Siege of Leith
French Wars of Religion
- Massacre of Mérindol
- First war (1562–63)
  - Siege of Rouen
  - Battle of Dreux
  - Siege of Orléans
- Second war (1567–68)
  - Battle of Saint-Denis
  - Siege of Chartres
- Third war (1568–70)
- Fourth war (1572–73)
  - Siege of Sommières
  - Siege of Sancerre
  - Siege of La Rochelle
- Fifth war (1574–76)
- Sixth War (1576–77)
- Seventh war (1579–80)
- War of the Three Henrys
- Franco-Spanish War (1595–98)
  - Siege of Amiens
- Huguenot Rebellions
  - First Huguenot Rebellion (1620–22)
    - Capture of Saumur
    - Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély
    - Blockade of La Rochelle
    - Siege of Montauban
    - Siege of Royan
    - Siege of Saint-Foix
    - Siege of Nègrepelisse
    - Siege of Saint-Antonin
    - Siege of Montpellier
    - Naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-Ré
  - Second Huguenot Rebellion
    - Battle of Blavet
    - Recovery of Ré island
  - Third Huguenot Rebellion
Dutch Revolt
War of the Portuguese Succession
Thirty Years' War
Fronde
- Battle of Bléneau
Austro-Turkish War (1663–64)
- Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664)
War of Devolution
- Siege of Charleroi (1667)
- Siege of Tournai (1667)
- Siege of Douai (1667)
- Siege of Lille
Franco-Dutch War
War of the Reunions
- Siege of Strasbourg (1681)
- Siege of Courtrai
- Invasion of Dixmude
- Siege of Luxembourg
- Bombardment of Genoa

Revolutionary France

French Revolutionary Wars
- War of the First Coalition
  - Campaigns of 1792
    - Battle of Valmy
    - Battle of Jemappes
  - Campaigns of 1793
    - Battle of Neerwinden
    - Battle of Hondshoote
    - Siege of Toulon
  - Campaigns of 1794
    - Battle of Boulou
    - Battle of Tourcoing
    - Battle of Fleurus
    - Battle of Platzberg
    - Battle of Aldenhoven
    - Battle of San-Lorenzo de la Muga
  - Campaigns of 1795
  - Campaigns of 1796
    - Battle of Mondovì
    - Battle of Lodi
    - Battle of Amberg
    - Battle of Arcole
  - Campaigns of 1797

- War of the Second Coalition
  - Campaigns of 1798
    - Battle of the Pyramids
    - Battle of the Nile
  - Campaigns of 1799
    - Siege of Jaffa
    - Battle of Cassano
    - Siege of Acre
    - Battle of Mount Tabor
    - First Battle of Zürich
    - Battle of Trebia
    - Battle of Abukir
    - Battle of Novi
    - Second Battle of Zürich
    - Battle of Bergen
  - Campaigns of 1800
    - Siege of Genoa
    - Battle of Engen
    - Battle of Möerskirch
    - Battle of Marengo
    - Battle of Hohenlinden
  - Campaigns of 1801
- War in the Vendée
- Siege of Lyon
- Chouannerie
- Peasants' War (1798)
- Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Quasi-War

Napoleonic France

French Colonial Empire

Siamese revolution of 1688
French and Iroquois Wars
Chickasaw Wars
First Carnatic War
Second Carnatic War
French and Indian Wars
- King William's War
  - 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
- Queen Anne's War
- King George's War
- Father Le Loutre's War
- French and Indian War
  - St. Lawrence and Mohawk theater
  - 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
Third Carnatic War
West Indies Campaign (Seven Years' War)
West African Campaign (Seven Years' War)
- Capture of Senegal
- Capture of Gorée

Modern period

Excluding colonial wars (the last being the Algerian War of 1954–1962), which are listed in the above section.

French intervention in Spain
- Battle of Trocadero
Greek War of Independence
- Battle of Navarino
- Morea expedition
Belgian Revolution
- Ten Days' Campaign
- Siege of Antwerp (1832)
Carlist Wars
- First Carlist War
Pastry War
- Battle of San Juan de Ulúa
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata
- Battle of Vuelta de Obligado
Crimean War
- Battle of Bomarsund
- Siege of Petropavlovsk
- Battle of Alma
- Battle of Balaclava
- Battle of Inkerman
- Battle of Eupatoria
- Siege of Taganrog
- Battle of Chernaya River
- Siege of Taganrog
- Siege of Sevastopol
- Battle of Malakoff
- Battle of Kinburn (1855)
Second Opium War
- Battle of Canton (1856)
- Battle of Canton (1857)
- Battle of Taku Forts (1858)
- Battle of Taku Forts (1859)
- Battle of Taku Forts (1860)
- Battle of Zhangjiawan
- Battle of Palikao
Franco-Austrian War
- Battle of Montebello
- Battle of Palestro
- Battle of Magenta
- Battle of Solferino
Battle of Aspromonte
Battle of Mentana
Franco-Prussian War
- Battle of Worth
- Battle of Mars-La-Tour
- Battle of Gravelotte
- Siege of Metz
- Battle of Sedan
- Battle of Havana (1870)
- Siege of Paris
- Siege of Belfort
Boxer Rebellion
World War I
- Western Front
- Macedonian front
  - Vardar Offensive
- Italian Front (World War I)
- Gallipoli Campaign
  - Battle of the Dardanelles
- Sinai and Palestine Campaign
- West African Campaign (World War I)
- Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
- Atlantic theater of World War I
  - Atlantic U-boat Campaign (World War I)
- Mediterranean theater of World War I
- North Sea 1914-1918
  - First Ostend Raid
Hungarian–Romanian War
Franco-Turkish War
Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
- North Russia Campaign
- Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
- Siberian Intervention
- Ukrainian War of Independence
Polish-Soviet War
- French Military Mission to Poland
Occupation of the Rhineland
Ruhr invasion

World War II
- Western Front
  - Saar Offensive
  - Allied campaign in Norway
    - Namsos Campaign
  - Battle of Luxembourg
  - Battle of the Netherlands
  - Battle of Belgium
  - Battle of France
    - Battle of Dunkirk
    - Weygand Plan
  - Battle of Britain
  - Italian Campaign
    - Battle of Monte Cassino
    - Operation Diadem
    - Liberation of Corsica
    - Battle of Elba
  - Liberation of France
    - Operation Neptune
    - Battle of Normandy
    - Liberation of Paris
    - Operation Dragoon
      - Struggle for Toulon and Marseilles
    - Colmar Pocket
  - Invasion of Germany
    - Black Forest
- Eastern Front (World War II)
  - Normandie-Niemen
- Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres of World War II
  - Battle of Dakar
  - Battle of Gabon
  - Battle of the Mediterranean
  - Gibraltar
  - Malta
  - North African Campaign
    - Battle of Kufra
    - Battle of Bir Hakeim
  - East African Campaign (World War II)
  - Syria–Lebanon Campaign
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Pacific War
  - Invasion of French Indochina
  - Indian Ocean in World War II
  - Second French Indochina Campaign
  - Operation Tiderace
- Strategic bombing during World War II
Korean War
- First and Second Battle of Wonju
- Battle of the Twin Tunnels
- Battle of Chipyong-ni
- Battle of Heartbreak Ridge
Suez Crisis
Shaba I
Shaba II
Western Sahara War
- Opération Lamantin
Chadian–Libyan conflict
Multinational Force in Lebanon
- 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
Gulf War
- Opération Daguet
Operation Restore Hope
Djiboutian Civil War
Rwandan Genocide
- Opération Turquoise
Bosnian War
- Battle of Vrbanja Bridge
- Operation Deliberate Force
- IFOR
- SFOR
Kosovo War
- Operation Allied Force
- KFOR
War in Afghanistan
- Mission Héraclès
- ISAF
  - French forces in Afghanistan
Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire
Haitian rebellion
Opération Baliste
War in Chad
War in Somalia (2009–present)
- Operation Atalanta
- Operation Linda Nchi
- Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt
Second civil war in Côte d'Ivoire
2011 military intervention in Libya
- Opération Harmattan
- Operation Unified Protector
Northern Mali conflict
- Opération Serval
Central African Republic conflict
- Opération Sangaris
Insurgency in the Maghreb
- Operation Barkhane
2014 Iraq Crisis
- Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014)
  - Siege of Amirli
- Northern Iraq offensive (August 2014)
  - Battle of Zumar
- Military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  - American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–present)
  - Opération Chammal

See also

List of battles involving France
List of wars involving England and France
Military history of France

Lists of wars involving European countries

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