Conflict
Combatant 1
Combatant 2
Outcome
Reconquista (722–1492)
Location:
Iberia
Islamic states and factions of Iberia
Christian victory
First Norman Rebellion against William (1047)
Location:
Normandy
French-Norman victory, rebels defeated
Second Norman Rebellion against William (1052–1054)
Location:
Normandy
Norman victory, French and rebels defeated
War of the Flemish succession (1070–1071) (1070–1071)
Location:
County of Flanders
Pro-
Arnulf
Flanders
Kingdom of France
County of Hainaut
County of Boulogne
Duchy of Normandy
Pro-
Robert
Flanders West Frisia (later
County of Holland )
West Frisian victory
First Crusade (1096–1099)
Location: Mostly
Levant and
Anatolia
Crusader Victory
Crusade of 1101
Location:
Anatolia
Rum victory
Anglo-French War 1109–13
Location:
Normandy
Kingdom of France
Truce
Anglo-French War 1116–19
Location:
Normandy
Anglo-Norman Victory
Anglo-French War 1123–1135
Location:
France
Rebellion in Maine suppressed by Anglo-Normans, French remain in a strong position,
Henry I dies. The
White Ship incident opens succession question and
the Anarchy begins before conclusive result
Second Crusade (1147–1150)
Location:
Iberia ,
Levant and
Anatolia
Mixed results
Iberia - Crusader Victory
Levant - Status Quo Ante Bellum
Anatolia - Crusader Defeat
Anglo-French War 1158–1189
Location:
France
Kingdom of England
Revolt of 1173-74 defeated, Richards revolt successful in 1189 with the help of
Philip II and French forces, Treaty of Azay-le-Rideau,
Prince Richard becomes king of England at expense of
Henry II following the battle of
Ballans
Anglo-French War 1193–1199
Location:
France
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of England
Truce at Vernon
Third Crusade (1189–1192)
Location:
Levant and
Anatolia
Crusader Victory
Fourth Crusade (1202–04)
Location:
Holy Land and
Byzantine Empire
In Europe:
Holy Land:
Division of
Byzantine Empire
French invasion of Normandy (1202–1204)
Location:
Normandy
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of England
French Victory,
Normandy ,
Anjou and Maine annexed by France
Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229)
Location:
Languedoc ,
France
Crusade
County of Aurenja
Crusader Victory
Anglo-French War (1213-14)
Location:
France ,
Flanders
Kingdom of France
Angevin Empire
Holy Roman Empire
County of Flanders
County of Boulogne
French Victory, Collapse of
Angevin Empire
First Barons War (1215–17)
Location:
England
Army of God and Holy Church
Kingdom of France
Pro-
Angevin forces
French Invasion Defeat
Fifth Crusade (1217–1221)
Location:
Egypt and
Levant
Ayyubids
Crusader Defeat
Poitou War (1224)
Location: Poitou
France
England
French Victory
English invasion of France (1230) (1230)
Location: Brittany and Western France
France
England
English Withdrawal
Barons' Crusade (1239–1241)
Location:
Levant
Ayyubids
Crusader Diplomatic Victory
Saintonge War (1242–1243)
Location:
Saintonge
France
England
French Victory
Seventh Crusade (1248–1254)
Location:
Egypt
Kingdom of France
Principality of Morea
Knights Templar
Ayyubids
Crusader Defeat
Eighth Crusade (1270)
Location:
Tunisia
Hafsid dynasty
Inconclusive, Death of
King Louis IX
War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282–1302)
Location:
Sicily and
Catalonia
Angevin
Kingdom of Naples
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Majorca
Crown of Aragon
Kingdom of Trinacria
Byzantine Empire
Division of the kingdom of Sicily into Aragonese Trinacria and Angevin Naples, Aragonese Crusade defeated
Anglo-French War (1294–1303)
Location: South-Western France
France
England
French Victory
Franco-Flemish War (1297–1305)
Location:
Flanders
France
County of Flanders
French Victory
War of Saint-Sardos (1324)
Location:
Aquitaine
France
England
French Victory
Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–1328 (1323–1328)
Location:
Flanders
Kingdom of France
Flemish count and loyalists
Flemish rebels
French Victory
Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)
Location:
France ,
England ,
Spain ,
Scotland and
Low Countries
France
Burgundian State (1337–1419 and 1435–53)
Kingdom of Scotland
Crown of Castile
Republic of Genoa
Kingdom of Bohemia
Crown of Aragon
Avignon Papacy
[a]
Kingdom of England
Burgundian State (1419–35)
Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of Navarre
Ghent Rebels
[b]
Papal States
[c]
French Victory
Wars of the Roses (1455–1487)
Location:
England
House of Lancaster
House of Tudor
France
Kingdom of Scotland
House of York
Burgundian State
Victory and beginning of the
Tudor dynasty
Castilian Civil War (1351–1369)
Location:
Spain
Forces of
Henry of Trastámara
Kingdom of France
Crown of Aragon
Forces of
Peter of Castile
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Navarre
Kingdom of Majorca
Kingdom of Granada
Victory for
Henry of Trastámara
Barbary Crusade (1390)
Location:
Tunisia
Kingdom of France
Republic of Genoa
Hafsids
Zianids
Bejaia
Truce negotiated, Both sides claim victory
Nicopolis Crusade (1396)
Location:
Nicopolis
Crusade :
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of France
[1] [
full citation needed ]
Kingdom of Hungary
[1] [
full citation needed ]
Principality of Wallachia
[2]
Knights Hospitaller
[1] [
full citation needed ]
Republic of Venice
[1] [
full citation needed ]
Republic of Genoa
Bulgarian Empire
[3]
Polish Crown
Crown of Castile
Crown of Aragon
Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of Navarre
Teutonic Order
Byzantine Empire
Ottoman Empire
Defeat
Old Zurich War (1440–1446)
Location:
Swiss plateau
Imperial City of Zurich
Habsburg
Further Austria
France
Old Swiss Confederacy :
Vogteien of Appenzell
Peace of Einsiedeln
Milanese War of Succession (1447–54)
Location:
Italy
House of Sforza
Duchy of Milan (1450–4)
Republic of Florence (1452–4)
Kingdom of France (1452–4)
Republic of Venice
Margravate of Mantua
Ambrosian Republic (1447–50)
Duchy of Savoy
Francesco Sforza recognised as Duke of Milan
War of the Burgundian Succession (1477–1482)
Location:
France ,
Low Countries
Valois-Orléans :
Kingdom of France
Burgundy-Habsburg :
Burgundian State
France annexes several Burgundian territories, Maximilian I retains the Netherlands, the County of Burgundy, Artois and Charolais.
Catalan Civil War (1462–1472)
Location:
Catalonia
John II of Aragon
France
Principality of Catalonia rebels
John reestablished as King
War of the Castilian Succession (1475–1479)
Location:
Spain
Isabella is recognised as Queen of Castile in exchange for Ferdinand breaking alliance with
Maximilian I , Duke of Burgundy
Mad War (1485–1488)
Location:
France
Kingdom of France
Duchy of Lorraine
Duchy of Brittany
Lordship of Albret
Principality of Orange
County of Angoulême Supported by:
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Castile-León
Royal Victory
French-Breton War (1487–1491)
Location:
Duchy of Brittany
Kingdom of France
Duchy of Brittany
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Castile and León
French Victory,
Anne of Brittany marries
Charles VIII of France
First Italian War (1494–1498)
Location:
Italy
Kingdom of France
Duchy of Milan (before 1495)
1494:
Kingdom of Naples 1495:
League of Venice
Papal States
Republic of Venice
Kingdom of Naples
Kingdoms of Spain
Duchy of Milan
Holy Roman Empire
Republic of Florence
England (1496–98)
Duchy of Mantua
Republic of Genoa
Victory for the League of Venice
Second Italian War (1499–1501)
Location: Italy
France
Papal States
Venice (1499)
Spain (1500)
Marquisate of Saluzzo
Duchy of Milan
Naples
France conquers the
Duchy of Milan
Third Italian War (1502–1504)
Location:
Italy
France
Spain
Spanish victory, France cedes
Naples
War of the League of Cambrai (1508–1516)
Location:
Italy ,
France ,
England and
Spain
1508–1510: League of Cambrai :
1510–1511:
1511–1513:
1513–1516:
1508–1510:
1510–1511:
1511–1513: Holy League :
1513–1516:
French and Venetian Victory
Italian War of 1521–1526
Location:
France ,
Italy and
Spain
France
Republic of Venice
Papal States (1524–1525)
Marquisate of Saluzzo
Holy Roman Empire
Spain
England
Papal States (1521–1523 and 1525–1526)
Habsburg Victory, Capture of
Francois I
War of the League of Cognac (1526–30)
Location:
Italy
Kingdom of France
Papal States
Republic of Venice
Republic of Florence
Kingdom of England
Republic of Genoa (1526–1528)
Kingdom of Navarre
Duchy of Milan
Holy Roman Empire
Spain
Duchy of Ferrara
Republic of Genoa (1528–1530)
Duchy of Mantua (1528–1530)
Habsburg Victory
Italian War of 1536–1538
Location:
Provence ,
Piedmont and
Lombardy
Truce of Nice,
Savoy and
Piedmont acquired by France
Italian War of 1542–1546
Location:
England ,
France ,
Italy ,
Spain , and the
Low Countries
Treaty of Crépy and
Treaty of Ardres
Rough Wooing (1542–1551)
Location:
Northern England and
Scotland
Scottish and French Victory
Italian War of 1551–1559
Location:
France ,
Flanders ,
Italy and the
Mediterranean
Spanish-Imperial Victory
Anglo-French War (1557–1559)
Location:
Pale of Calais
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of England
French Victory
French Wars of Religion (1562–1628)
Location:
France
Edict of Nantes 1598,
Edict of Fontainebleau 1685 revokes treaty of Nantes
English expedition to France (1562-1563)
Location:
Le Havre ,
Dieppe
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of England ,
Huguenots (Before
Edict of Amboise )
Elizabeth I accepts French rule over
Pale of Calais
War of the Portuguese Succession (1580–1583)
Location:
Portugal ,
Atlantic Ocean , and the
Azores Islands
Pro-Crato Portugal Supported by:
France
England
Dutch Republic
Spain
Pro-Philip Portugal
Spanish Victory,
Philip II of Spain crowned king of Portugal,
Iberian Union
Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598) (simultaneously supporting the
Dutch Republic in the
Eighty Years' War during 1596–98)
Location:
Western Europe
Kingdom of France
England
Spain
French Victory
Franco-Savoyard War (1600–1601)
Location: Savoy
Kingdom of France
Duchy of Savoy
Treaty of Lyon (1601)
War of the Jülich Succession (1609–10)
Location:
United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Margraviate of Brandenburg
Palatinate-Neuburg
United Provinces
Kingdom of France
Protestant Union
Rudolph II
Principality of Strasbourg
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
Catholic League
France did not participate when war resumed in 1614
Franco-Algerian war (1609–1628)
Location: Algiers
Kingdom of France
Regency of Algiers
Defeat
Valtellina War (1620–26)
Location:
Valtellina
France
The
Three Leagues
Venice
Savoy
Papal States
Holy Roman Empire
Spain
Treaty of Monzon, France prevents complete
Habsburg control of Valtellina
First Savoyard-Genoese War (1625)
Location:
Genoa
Kingdom of France
Duchy of Savoy
Spain
Republic of Genoa
Defeat
Anglo-French War (1627–1629)
Location:
France ,
Quebec
France
England
Treaty of Susa , English withdraw support for
huguenots , Status Quo Ante Bellum in Canada
War of the Mantuan Succession (1628–31)
Location:
Northern Italy
Supporting the
Duke of Nevers :
France
Venice
Supporting the
Duke of Guastalla :
Holy Roman Empire
Duchy of Savoy
Spain
Duke of Nevers is recognised as ruler of Mantua
Thirty Years War (1618–1648)
Location:
Europe , primarily in
Germany
France (from 1635)
Bohemia (until 1620)
Sweden (from 1630)
Palatinate (until 1632)
Duchy of Savoy (1618–19)
Transylvania (until 1621)
[5]
Dutch Republic (from 1619)
Denmark–Norway (1625–29)
Heilbronn League (1631–1635)
Hesse-Kassel (from 1629)
Brandenburg-Prussia (1631–1635)
[d]
Brunswick-Lüneburg (1634–1642)
Saxony (1630–1635)
[d]
Supported by:
Habsburg Monarchy
Spanish Empire
Electorate of Bavaria
Catholic League (1618–1635)
Supported by:
France annexes
Décapole and
Upper Alsace
Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) (simultaneously supporting the
Dutch Republic in the
Eighty Years' War during 1635–48)
Location: Northern
France ,
Catalonia ,
Spanish Netherlands ,
Northern Italy , the
Rhineland
Kingdom of France
Dutch Republic (1635–48)
Commonwealth of England (1654–59)
Duchy of Savoy
Modena and Reggio (1647–49, 1655–59)
Duchy of Parma (1635–37)
Principality of Catalonia (1640–41)
Catalan Republic (1641)
Co-belligerent:
Kingdom of Portugal (1640–59)
[e]
Spanish Empire (incl.
Spanish Netherlands )
Holy Roman Empire (1635–48)
Modena and Reggio (1635–46)
English Royalists (1657–59)
[f]
Treaty of the Pyrenees ,
Artois ,
Roussillon and
Perpignan annexed by France
Portuguese Restoration War (1640–1668)
Location:
Portugal
Kingdom of Portugal
France
Kingdom of England
Spanish Empire
Portuguese and allied victory, end of the
Iberian Union
War of Candia (1645–1669)
Location:
Cretan
Venice
Knights of Malta
Papal States
France
Ottoman Empire
Crete conquered by the
Ottoman Empire Venetian gains in
Dalmatia
Savoyard–Waldensian wars (1655–1690)
Location:
Piedmont ,
Duchy of Savoy
Waldensian rebels
Status quo
Waldensians resettle their valleys
Savoyard-Waldensian alliance against France, Savoy joins
Augsburg League
Edict of Reintegration 1694
Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664)
Location:
Kingdom of Hungary
League of the Rhine :
Kingdom of France
Holy Roman Empire
Piedmont-Savoy
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Croatia
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Ottoman Empire
Peace of Vasvár
Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667)
Location:
Europe ,
Caribbean ,
North Sea and
English Channel
Treaty of Breda
War of Devolution (1667–1668)
Location:
Spanish Netherlands ,
Franche-Comté ,
Northern Catalonia
France
Spanish Empire (incl.
Spanish Netherlands )
Triple Alliance :
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668), France gains
Armentières ,
Bergues ,
Charleroi ,
Kortrijk ,
Douai ,
Veurne ,
Lille ,
Oudenaarde and
Tournai
Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678)
Location:
Low Countries ,
England ,
Alsace ,
Rhineland ,
Brandenburg ,
Sicily ,
France ,
North America ,
West Indies
Treaties of Nijmegen , France gains
Franche-Comté
War of the Reunions (1683–1684)
Location:
Spanish Netherlands ,
Catalonia ,
Genoa
France
*
Holy Roman Empire
Spain
Republic of Genoa
French Victory,
French conquest of Senegal (1659–1895)
Location:
Senegal
France
Waalo Kingdom Kingdom of
Cayor
Jolof Empire
Baol
Kingdom of Sine
Saloum
French victory
France conquers territory of present-day
Senegal
French-Tripolitania War (1681-1685)
Location:
Chios ,
Tripoli and
Tunis
France
French Victory
French-Algerian War 1681–88 (1681–88)
Location:
Algiers
France
Regency of Algiers
Peace treaty
Siamese revolution of 1688 (1688)
Location:
Siam
Prasat Thong dynasty
France
Phetracha and various Siamese lordsSupported by:
French defeat
Nine Years' War
Location:
Europe ,
Ireland ,
Asia ,
North America
France
New France
Wabanaki Confederacy
Jacobites
Grand Alliance :
Treaty of Ryswick
French and Iroquois Wars (17th century)
Location:
Great Lakes region
Huron ,
Erie ,
Neutral ,
Odawa ,
Ojibwe ,
Mississaugas ,
Potawatomi ,
Algonquin ,
Shawnee ,
Wenro ,
Mahican ,
Innu ,
Abenaki ,
Miami ,
Illinois Confederation , other nations allied with FranceSupported by:
France
Haudenosaunee Supported by:
England
Dutch Republic
Military stalemate
Great Peace of Montreal
Growth of French token influence in the Great Lakes region
Huron-Wendat Confederacy destroyed or assimilated
Military refugee migration results in expansion of Iroquois hunting grounds down to
Mississippi River
Further Iroquois territorial expansion halted in military campaigns by the
Council of Three Fires
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)
Location:
Europe ,
North America ,
Asia ,
Africa
*
France
Holy Roman Empire
Treaty of Utrecht ,
Treaty of Portsmouth
Chickasaw Wars (1721–1763)
Location:
Mississippi River
France
Choctaw
Illini
Great Britain
Chickasaw
Chickasaw victory
War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720)
Location:
Europe ,
North America
Great Britain
France
Austria
Dutch Republic
Savoy
Spain
Allied victory
Fox Wars (1712–1733)
Location: Detroit
Kingdom of France and Indigenous Allies
Fox Peoples
French victory
War of the Polish Succession (1733–1735)
Location:
Poland ,
Rhineland ,
Italy
*
Poland loyal to Stanislaus I
*
Poland loyal to Augustus III
Treaty of Vienna , Bourbon territorial gains, France guaranteed Lorraine following death of
Stanisław Leszczyński
War of Austrian Succession (1740–48)
Location:
Europe ,
North America
*
France
Wabanaki Confederacy
*
Great Britain
Iroquois Confederacy
Co-belligerents:
Status quo ante bellum
Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755)
Location:
Acadia and
Nova Scotia
France
Wabanaki Confederacy
Great Britain
French defeat
Seven Years' War (1756–1763)
France
Wabanaki Confederacy
Algonquin
Lenape
Ojibwa
Ottawa
Shawnee
Wyandot
Great Britain
Iroquois Confederacy
Catawba
Cherokee (before 1758)
French defeat
Larache expedition (1765)
Location:
Larache ,
Morocco
France
Morocco
French defeat
Anglo-French War (1778–1783) (1778–83)
Location: English Channel, Atlantic Ocean, West Indies, North America, Straits of Gibraltar, Balearic Islands, East Indies
France
Spain
United States
Co-belligerent:
Dutch Republic
(1780–1784)
Great Britain
French victory
United States gain independence from Britain
France weakens Britain, but incurs huge debts
Dutch economy ruined,
Patriots radicalise
French conquest of Corsica (1768–1770)
Location: Corsica
France
Corsican Republic
French victory
War of the First Coalition (1792–1797)
Location:
France ,
Central Europe ,
Italy ,
Belgium ,
Netherlands ,
Spain ,
West Indies
France
Spain (from 1796)
[i]
Army of Condé
Dutch Republic (until 1795)
Great Britain
Holy Roman Empire (until 1797)
[j]
Naples (until 1796)
Portugal
Sardinia (until 1796)
[m]
Spain (until 1795)
[n]
Other Italian states
French victory
Haitian Revolution (1791–1804)
Location:
Saint-Domingue
Collage of the Haitian Revolution
Slave owners
Kingdom of France
French Republic
Ex-slaves
French royalists
Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (1793–1795)
Great Britain
Ex-slaves (1802–1803)
Haitian victory