The great conflicts of French history
60 major conflicts and 464 battles, from Viking invasions to world wars. Each conflict groups its battles chronologically, with commanders, forces engaged and consequences.
- 866 – 911
Viking invasions in West Francia
3 battlesEarly Middle Ages
- 1097 – 1099
First Crusade
5 battlesHigh Middle Ages
- 1298 – 1304
War of Flanders
4 battlesLate Middle Ages
- 1340 – 1453
Hundred Years' War
19 battlesLate Middle Ages
- 1341 – 1364
War of the British Succession
5 battlesLate Middle Ages
- 1562 – 1627
French Wars of Religion
11 battlesRenaissance · Classical Era
- 1631 – 1648
Thirty Years' War
11 battlesClassical Era
- 1690 – 1693
War of the League of Augsburg
7 battlesClassical Era
- 1701 – 1714
War of the Spanish Succession
30 battlesClassical Era
- 1719
War of the Quadruple Alliance
5 battlesClassical Era
- 1733 – 1735
War of the Polish Succession
7 battlesClassical Era
- 1743 – 1748
War of the Austrian Succession
6 battlesClassical Era
- 1756 – 1762
Seven Years' War
13 battlesClassical Era
- 1778 – 1782
American War of Independence (Caribbean theater)
7 battlesClassical Era
- 1779 – 1781
American War of Independence
3 battlesClassical Era
- 1792 – 1795
French Revolutionary Wars
15 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1796 – 1797
Italian Campaign (French Revolutionary Wars)
10 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1798 – 1800
Egyptian Campaign (French Revolutionary Wars)
4 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1799 – 1801
War of the Second Coalition
8 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1801
Egyptian Campaign (War of the Second Coalition)
3 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1802
Haitian War of Independence
3 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1805
German Campaign (War of the Third Coalition)
8 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1806 – 1807
Polish Campaign (Fourth Coalition)
8 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1806
War of the Fourth Coalition
7 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1808 – 1812
Peninsular War
27 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1808
Peninsular War (Portuguese front)
3 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1812
Russian Campaign
7 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1813
War of the Sixth Coalition
8 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1814
Campaign of France
14 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1815
Belgium Campaign (Hundred Days)
3 battlesRevolution & Empire
- 1830 – 1849
Conquest of Algeria
10 battlesModern Era
- 1842 – 1846
Conquest of Algeria / War against Abd el-Kader
8 battlesModern Era
- 1854 – 1855
Crimean War
5 battlesModern Era
- 1859
Second Italian War of Independence
4 battlesModern Era
- 1860
Second Opium War
3 battlesModern Era
- 1862 – 1866
French Intervention in Mexico
12 battlesModern Era
- 1870 – 1871
Franco-Prussian War
12 battlesModern Era
- 1884 – 1885
Franco-Chinese War
9 battlesModern Era
- 1892
Second Dahomey War
3 battlesModern Era
- 1914
First World War – Battle of the Frontiers
3 battlesContemporary Era
- 1914
First World War – Race to the Sea
5 battlesContemporary Era
- 1914 – 1916
First World War – Western Front
8 battlesContemporary Era
- 1916 – 1917
Cameroon campaign (First World War)
4 battlesContemporary Era
- 1916
First World War – Battle of the Somme
4 battlesContemporary Era
- 1916
First World War – Battle of Verdun
4 battlesContemporary Era
- 1916 – 1918
First World War – Western Front
14 battlesContemporary Era
- 1918
First World War
5 battlesContemporary Era
- 1918
First World War – Hundred Days Offensive
7 battlesContemporary Era
- 1919
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
5 battlesContemporary Era
- 1922 – 1926
Rif War
8 battlesContemporary Era
- 1925 – 1926
Great Syrian Revolt against the French mandate
11 battlesContemporary Era
- 1940
Battle of France (Second World War)
9 battlesContemporary Era
- 1943
Tunisian Campaign (Second World War)
4 battlesContemporary Era
- 1944
Italian Campaign (Second World War)
3 battlesContemporary Era
- 1944 – 1945
Liberation of France (Second World War)
9 battlesContemporary Era
- 1945
German Campaign (Second World War)
3 battlesContemporary Era
- 1945
Austrian Campaign (Second World War)
3 battlesContemporary Era
- 1946 – 1954
First Indochina War
12 battlesContemporary Era
- 1955 – 1962
Algerian War
9 battlesContemporary Era
- 1965 – 1980
Chadian civil war – French intervention
4 battlesContemporary Era