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)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Battle of the Allia (390 BC) Location: Gaul Paul Jamin, Brennus and His Share of the Spoils, 1893	Senone Gauls	Roman Republic	Decisive Gallic victory Sack of Rome by Brennus the Gaul
Battle of Sentinum (295 BC) (Part of the Third Samnite War) Location: Sentinum, Italy	Samnium Gauls	Roman Republic	Decisive Roman victory
Battle of Arretium (283 BC) Location: Arretium, Italy	Senone Gauls	Roman Republic	Decisive Gallic victory
Battle of Lake Vadimo (283 BC) Location: Lake Vadimo, Italy	Gauls Etruscans	Roman Republic	Roman victory
Battle of Faesulae (225 BC) Location: Faesulae, Italy	Gauls	Roman Republic	Gallic victory
Battle of Telamon (225 BC) Location: Telamon, Italy	Gauls	Roman Republic	Decisive Roman victory Roman influence extended over northern Italy
Battle of Clastidium (222 BC) Location: Clastidium, Italy	Gauls	Roman Republic	Roman victory
Battle of Cremona (200 BC) Location: Cremona, Italy	Gauls	Roman Republic	Roman victory
Battle of Placentia (194 BC) Location: Placentia, Italy	Boii	Roman Republic	Decisive Roman victory
Battle of Sentinum (295 BC) (Part of the Third Samnite War) Location: Sentinum, Italy	Samnium Gauls	Roman Republic	Decisive Roman victory
Gallic Wars (58-50 BC) 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	Gauls: Arverni Atrebates Bituriges Caletes Eburones Helvetii Menapii Morini Nervii Sotiates Suessiones Veliocasses Veneti Viromandui other Germanic: Aduatuci Sicambri Suebi Tencteri Ubii Usipetes Britons and Aquitanian tribes as well as portions of Iberian tribesmen	Roman Republic	Decisive Roman victory Roman Republic annexes Gaul as a province
Battle of Châlons (274) Location: apud Catalaunos (Châlons-en-Champagne, France) Map of the Roman Empire with the breakaway states of Palmyra and Gaul, 271 AD	Gallic Empire	Roman Empire	Decisive Roman victory Territories of the breakaway Gallic Empire re-annexed by Rome

Franks and the Carolingian Empire

Middle Ages

Normandy campaigns of 1200–1204
- Battle of Mirebeau
- Siege of Château Gaillard
Anglo-French War (1202–14)
War of the Succession of Champagne
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
- 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
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

Napoleonic France

French Colonial Empire

See French colonial wars

Modern period

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

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
French invasion of Spain (1823) Location: Spain Battle of Trocadero	Kingdom of France Armée de la Foi	Partisans of the Cortes	Royalist victory Restoration of Ferdinand VII End of the Trienio Liberal

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