Anglo-French Wars

Anglo-French Wars
Date1109–1815 (694 Years)
Location
Territories of England, France and their respective allies (Spain, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, the United States and others)
Result
  • France and Britain become informal allies in the late 19th century.
  • Entente Cordiale in 1904.
  • Momentary disruption of the Franco-British alliance when France is occupied by Germany during World War II. Free French Forces still fight as allies with the British.
  • France and Britain become permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in 1945 and join NATO in 1949.
Belligerents
  • Kingdom of England (1109–1707)
  • Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801)
  • United Kingdom (1801–1815)
  • Kingdom of France (1109–1792)
  • French Republic (1792–1804)
  • French Empire (1804–1815)

The Anglo-French Wars (1109–1815) were a series of conflicts between the territories of the Kingdom of England (and its successor state, the United Kingdom) and the Kingdom of France (succeeded by a republic). Their conflicts spanned from the High Middle Ages to the early modern period.

Middle Ages

High Middle Ages

Late Middle Ages

Modern period

1500s and 1600s

  • Anglo-French War (1512–1514) – part of the War of the League of Cambrai
  • Anglo-French War (1522–1526) – part of the Italian War of 1521–1526
  • Anglo-French War (1542–1546) – part of the Italian War of 1542–1546
  • Anglo-French War (1557–1559) – part of the Italian War of 1551–1559
  • English expedition to France (1562–1563) - English intervention in the first of the French Wars of Religion.
  • Anglo-French War (1627–1629) – the English intervention during the Huguenot rebellions
  • Anglo-French War (1666–1667) – minor corollary of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
  • Anglo-French War (1688–1697) – part of the Nine Years' War and its peripheral conflicts

1700s

  • Anglo-French War (1702–1713) – part of the War of the Spanish Succession and its peripheral conflicts
  • Anglo-French War (1744–1748) – part of the War of the Austrian Succession and its peripheral conflicts
  • Anglo-French War (1746–1763) – also known as the Carnatic Wars
  • Anglo-French War (1756–1763) – part of the Seven Years' War and its peripheral conflicts
  • Anglo-French War (1778–1783) – part of the American Revolutionary War and its peripheral conflicts
  • Anglo-French War (1793–1802) – part of the French Revolutionary Wars and their peripheral conflicts

After 1802

  • Anglo-French War (1803–1815) – part of the Napoleonic Wars and their peripheral conflicts
  • Anglo-Vichy French War (1940–42) – part of WWII; Britain fought alongside Free France against Vichy France

Crises

Events that nearly brought the two countries to war:

  • Corsican Crisis
  • Falklands Crisis of 1770
  • Nootka Crisis
  • Rio Nuñez incident
  • Fashoda Incident
  • Levant Crisis

See also

  • 1993 Cherbourg incident
  • Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
  • Auld Alliance
  • Entente Cordiale
  • France–United Kingdom relations
  • Second Hundred Years' War
  • Kohn, George C (2006). Dictionary of Wars. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438129167.
  • Lee, Roger. "Anglo-French Wars". The History Guy. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
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