French Army

Sub-units 41

• Army 8th Army (France)
• Corps 2nd Army Corps (France)
• Corps 1st Army Corps (France)
• Division 1st Colonial Infantry Division
• Regiment 1st Spahi Regiment
• Battalion Chasseurs Alpins
• Corps 12th Army Corps (France)
• Division 12th Infantry Division (France)
• Division 15th Infantry Division (France)
• Division 16th Infantry Division (France)
• Division 183rd Infantry Division of Africa
• Division 21st Infantry Division (France)
• Division 2nd Colonial Infantry Division (France)
• Division 2nd Infantry Division (France)
• Division 2nd Moroccan Division
• Corps 35th Army Corps (France)
• Corps 36th Army Corps (France)
• Division 37th Infantry Division (France)
• Division 38th Infantry Division (France)
• Division 4th Colonial Infantry Division (France)
• Division 55th Infantry Division (France)
• Division 7th Infantry Division (France)
• Division 7th North African Infantry Division
• Division 84th African Infantry Division
• Division 8th Infantry Division (France)
• Division 9th Motorized Division
• Division Moroccan Division (France)
• Regiment 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment
• Regiment French Foreign Legion
• Army French Army of the East (1854–1856)
• Army French Third Army (1914–1918)
• Army 4th Army (France)
• Army 5th Army (France)
• Army French Sixth Army (1914–1918)
• Army French Tenth Army (1914–1918)
• Regiment 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment
• Division 3rd Armored Division (France)
• Division 1st Armored Division (France)
• Division 5th Armored Division (France)
• Division 9th Colonial Infantry Division
• Division French 6th Light Armoured Division

People who served 98

Charles de Gaulle Général de brigade · 1912–1944 Jacques Chirac Second lieutenant · 1954–1957 Prince Henrik of Denmark Admiral · 1959–1962 Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud Marshal of France Fernand de Langle de Cary General Aimable Pélissier Marshal of France Pierre Bosquet Divisional General Henri Navarre Frederick Townsend Ward Brigadier General Louis-Nicolas Davout General Maxime Weygand General Joseph Gallieni General Marquis de Lafayette Paul Aussaresses Brigadier General Ferdinand Foch Marshal of Poland Lansana Conté General Joseph Joffre General Toussaint Louverture Maurice Gamelin Generalissimo Bernard Janvier Army General Chadli Bendjedid Colonel Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Lieutenant General Jean-Marie Degoutte General Jean Baptiste Kléber General Michel Roquejeoffre Army General Paul Maistre Divisional General Yves Godard Colonel Gabriel Ramanantsoa Divisional General Joseph Vinoy Divisional General Robert Nivelle General Kléber Dadjo François Certain de Canrobert Marshal of France Saye Zerbo Jacques Massu General Marcel Maurice Bigeard Émile Fayolle General François Achille Bazaine General Raoul Salan Army General Charles Denis Bourbaki Divisional General Antoine Chanzy General Jean-Jacques Uhrich General Marcel Carpentier Army General Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald Marshal of France Abel Douay Divisional General Charles François Dumouriez General Officer Appointed In Emigration Jean-Joseph Farre Divisional General Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau Colonel Louis Faidherbe Divisional General Pierre Louis Charles de Failly Divisional General Anne of Romania Lieutenant Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines General Jean François Carteaux Divisional General Charles Auguste Frossard General Christian de Castries Brigadier General Joseph Souham Divisional General Charles II d'Amboise Admiral Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu Donatien de Rochambeau General James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick Maurice Sarrail General Henri Gouraud General Charles Mast Divisional General François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery Colonel Georges Blanchard Army General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque Marshal of France Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme General Jean-Étienne Valluy General Henri Giraud General Louis-Gabriel Suchet Marshal of the Empire Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau Major General Louis-François de Boufflers Marshal of France Jean Boudet Divisional General Louis Brière de l'Isle General Jules Gaucher Lieutenant Colonel Noël Jourda de Vaux Marshal of France Oscar de Négrier Divisional General Paul Ély Army General René Prioux General François Christophe de Kellermann General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey Marshal of France Adolphe Guillaumat General of the Army Charles-Théodore Millot General Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles Marshal of France Marie-Pierre Kœnig Marshal of France Louis-Joseph de Montcalm Lieutenant General Louis Charles Armand Fouquet, Chevalier de Belle-Isle Lieutenant General Ulrich Friedrich Woldemar von Löwendal General Charles Leclerc Major General Henri Dentz General Georges Catroux Army General François Gaston de Lévis Marshal of France Louis Charles César Le Tellier, Duke of Estrées Marshal of France Burkhard Christoph von Münnich General Field Marshal Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot Divisional General Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser Field Marshal Michel-Joseph Maunoury Marshal Élie Frédéric Forey Marshal of France

Strength and losses

• Nominal Strength: 118,600

Movements

• April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 American Revolutionary War
• April 20, 1792 – March 25, 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
• May 18, 1803 – November 20, 1815 Napoleonic Wars
• August 8, 1809 Battle of Arzobispo
• October 16–19, 1813 Battle of Leipzig
• February 17, 1814 Battle of Mormant
• March 20 – July 8, 1815 Hundred Days
• June 18, 1815 Battle of Waterloo
• February 21, 1821 – September 12, 1829 Greek War of Independence
• October 2, 1833 – July 6, 1840 First Carlist War
• August 6 – September 10, 1844 Franco-Moroccan War
• October 16, 1853 – March 30, 1856 Crimean War
• September 20, 1854 Battle of the Alma
• October 17, 1854 – September 11, 1855 Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)
• November 5, 1854 Battle of Inkerman
• August 16, 1855 Battle of the Chernaya
• September 1, 1858 – June 9, 1885 French conquest of Vietnam
• September 1, 1858 – June 5, 1862 Cochinchina campaign
• 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
• April 24 – December 23, 1881 French conquest of Tunisia
• 1882 – 1898 Mandingo Wars
• August 22, 1884 – April 4, 1885 Sino-French War
• February 21 – October 4, 1890 First Franco-Dahomean War
• July 4, 1892 – January 15, 1894 Second Franco-Dahomean War
• December 1894 – September 1895 Second Madagascar expedition
• 1906 Wadai War
• June 8, 1911 – July 8, 1927 Rif War
• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
• August 1914 Battle of Dinant
• August 14 – September 7, 1914 Battle of Lorraine
• August 21–23, 1914 Battle of the Ardennes
• August 21–23, 1914 Battle of Charleroi
• August 29–30, 1914 Battle of Guise
• September 5–12, 1914 First Battle of the Marne
• September 13–28, 1914 First Battle of the Aisne
• September 19 – October 11, 1914 Battle of Flirey
• September 25–29, 1914 Battle of Albert (1914)
• September 26, 1914 First Battle of Picardy
• October 16–31, 1914 Battle of the Yser
• December 20, 1914 – March 17, 1915 First Battle of Champagne
• February 19, 1915 – January 9, 1916 Gallipoli campaign
• April 22 – May 25, 1915 Second Battle of Ypres
• May 9 – June 18, 1915 Second Battle of Artois
• September 25 – November 6, 1915 Second Battle of Champagne
• September 25 – November 4, 1915 Third Battle of Artois
• February 21 – December 18, 1916 Battle of Verdun
• July 1 – November 18, 1916 Battle of the Somme
• April 16 – May 9, 1917 Second Battle of the Aisne
• April 16 – May 9, 1917 Nivelle offensive
• April 17–20, 1917 Battle of the Hills
• July 31 – November 10, 1917 Battle of Passchendaele
• October 23–27, 1917 Battle of La Malmaison
• March 21 – April 5, 1918 Operation Michael
• April 9–29, 1918 Battle of the Lys (1918)
• May 27 – June 6, 1918 Third Battle of the Aisne
• July 15 – August 6, 1918 Second Battle of the Marne
• August 8–12, 1918 Battle of Amiens (1918)
• August 8 – November 11, 1918 Hundred Days Offensive
• August 17–23, 1918 Battle of the Ailette
• August 21 – September 2, 1918 Second Battle of the Somme
• September 26 – November 11, 1918 Meuse–Argonne offensive
• September 27 – October 1, 1918 Battle of the Canal du Nord
• September 29 – October 2, 1918 Battle of the St Quentin Canal
• November 4, 1918 Battle of the Sambre (1918)
• December 1918 – October 1921 Franco-Turkish War
• September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
• April 9 – June 8, 1940 Battles of Narvik
• May 10, 1940 German invasion of Luxembourg
• May 10–28, 1940 German invasion of Belgium (1940)
• May 10 – June 25, 1940 Battle of France
• May 26 – June 4, 1940 Battle of Dunkirk
• October 1940 – May 9, 1941 Franco-Thai War
• June 8 – July 14, 1941 Syria–Lebanon campaign
• June 17–19, 1944 Invasion of Elba
• August 21–28, 1944 Battle of Marseille
• August 25, 1944 – March 7, 1945 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
• November 1944 – February 1945 Colmar Pocket
• December 31, 1944 – January 25, 1945 Operation Northwind (1944)
• 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
• August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991 Gulf War
• February 24–28, 1991 Liberation of Kuwait campaign
• April 5, 1992 – February 29, 1996 Siege of Sarajevo
• February 28, 1998 – June 11, 1999 Kosovo War
• 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
• January 11, 2013 – July 15, 2014 Operation Serval
• December 5, 2013 – October 31, 2016 Operation Sangaris
• September 19, 2014 Opération Chammal
• January 1, 2015 – August 30, 2021 War in Afghanistan (2015–2021)
• March 24, 2016 Shirqat offensive (2016)
• October 4, 2017 Tongo Tongo ambush
• February 9 – March 23, 2019 Battle of Baghuz Fawqani
• February 28, 2026 2026 Iran war