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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
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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
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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 |
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Franco-Thai War (1940–1941) Location: French Indochina |
Vichy France | Thailand | Indecisive
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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
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First Indochina War (1946–1954) Location: French Indochina
|
France
Cambodia Supported by: |
Viet Minh Lao Issara (1945–1949)
Japanese volunteers Supported by: |
French defeat
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Malagasy Uprising (1947–1948) Location: Madagascar |
France | MDRM | French victory
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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
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Algerian War (1954–1962) Location: Algeria |
France | FLN | French defeat
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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 |
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.
In this instance, unlike several others, the Cubans did no fighting; Algeria concluded an armistice with the Moroccan king.