French Foreign Legion

Movements

• October 2, 1833 – July 6, 1840 First Carlist War
• October 16, 1853 – March 30, 1856 Crimean War
• September 1, 1858 – June 9, 1885 French conquest of Vietnam
• April 27 – July 11, 1859 Second Italian War of Independence
• December 8, 1861 – June 21, 1867 Second French intervention in Mexico
• October 1866 – November 1866 French expedition to Korea
• July 19, 1870 – January 28, 1871 Franco-Prussian War
• 1882 – 1898 Mandingo Wars
• August 22, 1884 – April 4, 1885 Sino-French War
• July 4, 1892 – January 15, 1894 Second Franco-Dahomean War
• December 1894 – September 1895 Second Madagascar expedition
• June 8, 1911 – July 8, 1927 Rif War
• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
• February 19, 1915 – January 9, 1916 Gallipoli campaign
• September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
• October 1940 – May 9, 1941 Franco-Thai War
• June 8 – July 14, 1941 Syria–Lebanon campaign
• December 19, 1946 – August 1, 1954 First Indochina War
• November 1, 1954 – March 19, 1962 Algerian War of Independence
• April 13, 1975 – October 13, 1990 Lebanese Civil War
• 1978 – 1987 Chadian–Libyan War
• June 1978 Shaba II
• August 2, 1990 – January 17, 1991 Operation Desert Shield
• September 11, 2001 War on terror
• October 7, 2001 – December 28, 2014 Operation Enduring Freedom
• September 19, 2002 – March 4, 2007 First Ivorian Civil War
• November 28, 2010 – April 11, 2011 Second Ivorian Civil War
• January 16, 2012 Mali War
• December 10, 2012 Central African Republic Civil War
• December 5, 2013 – October 31, 2016 Operation Sangaris
• January 1, 2015 – August 30, 2021 War in Afghanistan (2015–2021)