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Fox Wars
The Fox Wars were military confrontations between the Meskwaki people, called the Fox by the French, and New France and its Indigenous allies, fought mainly from 1712 to 1730.
France and the Rwandan genocide
France and the Rwandan genocide: France's military and political support for the Habyarimana regime (1975 Franco-Rwandan agreement, 1990-1994 arms transfers), Operations Amaryllis and Turquoise in 1994, and the Duclert Commission's finding of heavy responsibility.
France in the American Revolutionary War
France in the American Revolutionary War: the 1778 Treaty of Alliance, Vergennes, Rochambeau, de Grasse, Yorktown, and the 1.6 billion livres of debt that helped trigger the French Revolution.
Francis Pegahmagabow
Francis Pegahmagabow (Binaaswi), Ojibwe soldier of Wasauksing First Nation, was Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldier of the First World War, winning the Military Medal with two bars, and later chief and Indigenous rights advocate.
Franco-Moroccan War
The Franco-Moroccan War of 1844 was a brief conflict in which France attacked Morocco to end its support for Abd al-Qadir, winning the Battle of Isly.
Franco-Thai War (สงครามฝรั่งเศส-ไทย)
Franco-Thai War (สงครามฝรั่งเศส-ไทย), 1940-41 border conflict between Thailand and Vichy France over Indochina; ended by Japanese mediation and the Tokyo Convention of 9 May 1941 ceding about 70,000 km² to Thailand.
Frank Buckles
Frank Woodruff Buckles (1901-2011), last surviving American World War I veteran, enlisted at 16 after lying to recruiters, drove ambulances in England and France, and survived 39 months as a Japanese POW in World War II.
Fraser Canyon War
The Fraser Canyon War, also called the Canyon War, was an 1858 conflict between Nlaka'pamux people and American miners during the Fraser River gold rush.
Fred Korematsu
Fred Korematsu, Japanese American resister of the 1942 West Coast exclusion order; his conviction was upheld in Korematsu v. United States (1944), vacated by coram nobis in the 1980s, and the ruling was formally repudiated in 2018.
Free Aceh Movement
The Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, GAM) was an armed separatist group founded in 1976 by Hasan di Tiro to win independence for Aceh, Indonesia.
Free France
Free France (la France Libre): movement founded by Charles de Gaulle in London, June 1940, rejecting the Vichy armistice; rallied colonial territories, built the CFLN (1943) and became the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944).
Free Papua Movement
Free Papua Movement (Organisasi Papua Merdeka, OPM), umbrella Papuan independence organization with armed wing TPNPB, founded mid-1960s, proclaimed independence 1 July 1971, rejects the 1969 Act of Free Choice, escalating insurgency since 2018.
Free State of Jones (film)
Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war drama written and directed by Gary Ross, starring Matthew McConaughey, Mahershala Ali, and Keri Russell.
Free Thai Movement
The Free Thai Movement (Thai: เสรีไทย, Seri Thai) was a Thai underground resistance movement against Japan in World War II, led by Pridi Banomyong and credited with preserving Thailand's sovereignty.
Freedmen's Bureau
Freedmen's Bureau (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands), a War Department agency created March 3, 1865 under Commissioner Oliver O. Howard to aid freedpeople through relief, labor contracts, schools, and land supervision; discontinued June 1872.
French Army in World War I
The French Army in World War I (Armée française, 1914–1918): the conscript land force of France in the Great War, mobilizing over three million men under Joffre, fighting on the Marne and at Verdun, enduring the 1917 mutinies, mechanizing with the Renault FT, and winning under Foch in 1918.
French bombardment of Đà Nẵng
The French bombardment of Đà Nẵng began on 1 September 1858, when a Franco-Spanish expedition under Admiral Rigault de Genouilly attacked the Vietnamese port then called Tourane.
French conquest of Algeria
French conquest of Algeria (1830–1847 and beyond): invasion of Algiers July 1830, Abd el-Kader's resistance, Bugeaud's total conquest, razzias and enfumades, and the ongoing genocide debate among historians.
French conquest of Dahomey
The French conquest of Dahomey was the series of campaigns between 1890 and 1894 by which France destroyed the independence of the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, and deposed King Béhanzin.
French conquest of Morocco
The French conquest of Morocco was the military campaign by which France, between 1901 and 1934, subjugated the Moroccan Sultanate and established the French Protectorate.
French conquest of Senegal
The French conquest of Senegal was the military expansion, beginning in the 1850s under governor Louis Faidherbe, that turned France's coastal trading enclaves into the territorial colony of Senegal.
French conquest of the Touat
The French conquest of the Touat was the occupation of the Saharan oasis groups of the Touat, Gourara, and Tidikelt in what is now southwestern Algeria between 1899 and 1901.
French conquest of Tunisia
The French conquest of Tunisia was France's 1881 invasion of the Beylik of Tunis, made a French protectorate by the Treaty of Bardo of 12 May 1881.
French invasion of Malta
French invasion of Malta (June 1798): Napoleon's fleet under Admiral Brueys ended the Order of St John's 268-year rule; the capitulation was signed aboard the Orient on 12 June 1798, and the occupation lasted until Vaubois surrendered on 5 September 1800.
French military withdrawal from West Africa (2022–2025)
The French military withdrawal from West Africa (2022–2025) ended Operation Barkhane, the ~5,100-strong Sahel counterterrorism force: Mali left in August 2022, Burkina Faso in February 2023, Niger by December 2023, then Chad, Ivory Coast, and Senegal through 2025, replaced partly by Russia's Africa Corps.
French pacification of Morocco
The French pacification of Morocco was the series of military campaigns by which France, between 1907 and 1934, subdued armed resistance across the Moroccan territory under its protectorate, established in 1912.
French Resistance
The French Resistance was the clandestine movement opposing German occupation and Vichy from 1940 to 1944, unified under de Gaulle via Jean Moulin's CNR in May 1943, contributing intelligence and sabotage to the Allied liberation of France.
Friedrich Jeckeln
Friedrich August Jeckeln (1895–1946), SS-Obergruppenführer and Higher SS and Police Leader in Ukraine and Ostland, directed the Kamianets-Podilskyi, Babi Yar, and Rumbula massacres using the "Jeckeln System"; tried and hanged in Riga, 3 February 1946.
Frog Lake Massacre
The Frog Lake Massacre was the killing of nine non-Native men at Frog Lake in present-day Alberta on April 2, 1885, by Cree warriors from Chief Big Bear's band during the North-West Rebellion.
Front de libération du Québec
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), Quebec Liberation Front: clandestine separatist group founded 1963, disbanded 1971; 200+ bombings, October 1970 kidnappings of James Cross and Pierre Laporte, War Measures Act response.