Conflict France & allies France's opposition Outcome Paris Commune (1871) Location: Paris
French Third Republic Communards National Guards Third Republic victory Annexation of the Leeward Islands (1880–1897) Location: Society Islands
France Tahiti (French protectorate) Raiatea -Tahaa Huahine Bora Bora French Victory French conquest of Tunisia (1881) Location: Tunisia
France Beylik of Tunis French victory Tunisia becomes a French protectorate Mandingo Wars (1883–1898) Location: West Africa
France Wassoulou Empire French victory First Madagascar expedition (1883–1885) Location: Madagascar
France Merina Kingdom French victory Sino-French War (1884–1885) Location: Southeast mainland China , Taiwan , northern Vietnam
France China Black Flag Army Nguyễn dynasty Both sides declared victory Limited "victory" for Qing forces on land (China won one battle at the end before suing for peace) Defeat of Qing forces on Taiwan and surrounding islands Collapse of Ferry's government in late March due to public opinion against the war Treaty of Tientsin China officially recognizes French domination over Vietnam Tonkin Campaign (1883–1886) Location: Northern Vietnam
France Qing dynasty Black Flag Army Nguyễn dynasty French victory First Franco-Dahomean War (1890) Location: Ouémé Department of modern Benin
France Dahomey French victory Dahomey recognizes Porto-Novo as a French protectorate and gives up customs rights to Cotonou in exchange for yearly payment Second Franco-Dahomean War (1892–1894) Location: Ouémé Department and Zou Department of modern Benin
France Dahomey French victory Dahomey conquered and incorporated as a French protectorate Franco-Siamese conflict (1893) Location: French Indochina , Siam
French Republic Siam French victory First Italo-Ethiopian War (1894–1896) Location: Eritrea and Ethiopia
Ethiopia Support : Russia [18] [19] [20] France [21] [22] Eritrean rebels[23] Italy Ethiopian victory Second Madagascar expedition (1894–1895) Location: Madagascar
France Merina Kingdom French victory Cretan Revolt (1897–1898) Location: Crete
Cretan revolutionaries Kingdom of Greece British Empire France Italy Russian Empire Austria-Hungary (until April 12, 1898) German Empire (until March 16, 1898) Ottoman Empire French victory Establishment of the Cretan State . Withdraw of Ottoman forces from Crete. Boxer Rebellion (1899) Location: North China
France British Empire Russia Japan Germany United States Italy Austria-Hungary Netherlands Belgium Spain Mutual Protection of Southeast China Boxers Qing dynasty Allied victory Rabih War (1899–1901) Location: West Africa
France Kanem–Bornu Empire French victory 1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar (1904–1905) Location: Madagascar
France Rebels French victory Ouaddai War (1909–1911) Location: Ouaddai Empire
France Ouaddai Empire French victory French conquest of Morocco (1911–1934) Location: North Africa
France Zaian Confederation Varying other Berber tribes French victory Zaian War (1914–1921) Location: French protectorate of Morocco
France Zaian Confederation Varying other Berber tribes Supported during the First World War by the Central Powers French victory First World War (1914–1918) Location: Europe , Africa , Asia , Middle East , the Pacific Islands , and coast of North and South America
Allied Powers France British Empire
Russian Empire United States Italy Japan China Serbia Montenegro Romania Belgium Greece Portugal Brazil
Central Powers Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria
Allied victory Volta-Bani War (1915–1917) Location: Burkino Faso, Mali
France Marka, Bwa, Lela, Nuni, and Bobo people French victory Kaocen revolt (1916–1917) Location: Northern Niger
France Tuareg guerrillas French victory Thái Nguyên uprising (1917–1918) Location: Northern Vietnam
France Vietnamese rebels French victory Occupation of Constantinople (1918–1923) Location: Istanbul
United Kingdom France Italy Greece United States [24] Japan [24] Ottoman Empire Temporary occupation November 1918 insurgency in Alsace-Lorraine Location: Alsace-Lorraine
French Third Republic Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic Third Republic victory Hungarian-Romanian War (1918–1919) Location: Hungary , and Transylvania
Romania Supported by: France Czechoslovakia
Hungarian Republic (until 21 March 1919) Soviet Hungary Supported by: Soviet Russia Romanian victory Franco-Turkish War (1918–1921) Location: Cilicia and Upper Mesopotamia
France Grand National Assembly French loss Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918–1920) Location: Russia , Mongolia , and Iran
White Movement British Empire
United States France Japan Czechoslovakia Greece Estonia Serbia Italy Poland Romania China
Russian SFSR Far Eastern Republic Latvian SSR Ukrainian SSR Commune of Estonia Mongolian Communists
Allied withdrawal Allied withdrawal from Russia Bolshevik victory over White Army German Revolution of 1918–1919 (1918–1919) Location: German Empire
1918–1919: Weimar Republic Supported by: France
FSR Germany Supported by: Russian SFSR Weimar victory Hungarian–Czechoslovak War (1918–1919) Location: Slovakia , Carpathian Ruthenia , Hungary
Czechoslovakia Supported by: France Romania Hungarian Republic (until 21 March 1919) Soviet Hungary (from 21 March 1919) Supported by: Soviet Russia Czechoslovakian victory 1919 Luxembourgish rebellion (January 1919) Location: Luxembourg
French Third Republic Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Comité de Salut Public (Luxembourg) [nl ] Republic of Luxembourg French and Luxembourgish monarchist victory Luxembourgish republican and pro-Belgian rebellion suppressed (10 January 1919) Polish-Soviet War (1919–1921) Location: Central and Eastern Europe
Poland Belarusian PR Latvia [i] Ukrainian People's Republic [j] Supported by: France Hungarian Republic Romania Russian Whites United Kingdom [k] United States [k] Russian SFSR Byelorussian SSR Polrewkom Ukrainian SSR Polish victory Bender Uprising (1919) Location: Tighina , Kingdom of Romania (present day Bender, Moldova )
France Romania Red Guards Ukrainian SSR Franco-Romanian victory Franco-Syrian War (1920) Location: Syria
France Arab Kingdom of Syria French victory Rif War (1920–1927) Location: Morocco
Spain France (1925–1926) Jebala tribes Republic of the Rif Jebala tribes Franco-Spanish victory Great Syrian Revolt (1925–1927) Location: French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Damascus in flames as the result of the French air raid on October 18, 1925. France Syrian rebels French victory Kongo-Wara rebellion (1928–1931) Location: French Equatorial Africa , French Cameroon
France Fula people
Co-belligerents:Gbaya chiefdoms
Gbaya people and clans Co-belligerents: Mbum people Mbai people Pana people Yangere people Mbimou people Goundi people
French victory Yên Bái mutiny (1930) Location: Vietnam
France Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng French victory Uprising crushed VNQDĐ severely damaged by deaths and arrests, jailings and executions by French authorities[25] Second World War (1939–1945) Location: Europe , Pacific Ocean , Atlantic Ocean , Southeast Asia , East Asia , Middle East , Mediterranean , North Africa , Oceania , North and South America
Allied Powers United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China Free France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico
Axis Powers Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang
Allied victory