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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. For wars involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792), see List of wars involving the Kingdom of France. For pre-987 wars, see List of wars involving ...
The Wars of Religion crippled France in the late 16th century, but a major victory over Spain in the Thirty Years' War made France the most powerful nation on the continent once more. In parallel, France developed its first colonial empire in Asia, Africa, and in the Americas.
List of battles involving France (disambiguation) List of wars involving Francia (France before 987) List of wars involving France (France after September 1792: First to Fifth Republic, First and Second Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, and Vichy France) List of wars in the Low Countries until 1560
The Battle of Malakoff (1855) during the Crimean War, by Horace Vernet (1858) List of battles involving France, Francia and the Franks may refer to: Entire pre-987 wars involving the Franks and Francia, see List of wars involving Francia. Specific pre-987 battles involving the Franks and Francia, see List of battles involving the Franks and ...
World War I was the first war to see major use of planes for offensive, defensive and reconnaissance operations, and both the Entente Powers and the Central Powers used planes extensively. Almost as soon as they were invented, planes were drafted for military service. Battles: Aviation in World War I (1914–1918) 1914 in aviation
This is a list of major battles in the Hundred Years' War, a conflict between France and England that lasted 116 years from 1337 to 1453. There are 62 of them.
Poilus posing with their war-torn flag in 1917, during World War I (1914–1918).. This is a chronological list of the battles involving France in modern history.. These lists do not include the battles of the French civil wars (as the Wars of Religion, the Fronde, the War in the Vendée) unless a foreign country is involved; this list includes neither the peacekeeping operations (such as ...
the Caroline War; John of Gaunt's chevauchée of 1373; the Lancastrian War; the 1536 Italian War of 1536–1538, Spanish invasion of France; the 1562 English expedition to France, led by England during the French Wars of Religion; the 1746 War of the Austrian Succession, Austria-Italian forces supported by the British navy attempted to invade ...