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List of Wars Involving France Information

According to BBC History: "There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them; UK 43. In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10. Giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe".

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

Contents

Gauls (Transalpine and Cisalpine)

Franks and the Carolingian Empire

Middle Ages

Ancien Régime

Revolutionary France

Napoleonic France

French Colonial Empire

Modern period

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

See also

Lists of wars involving European countries
Sovereign states
States with limited recognition
  • Abkhazia
  • Kosovo
  • Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Northern Cyprus
  • South Ossetia
  • Transnistria
Dependencies and other territories
  • Åland
  • Faroe Islands
  • Gibraltar
  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
  • Isle of Man
  • Svalbard
Other entities

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