From Brilliant Maps:
Every Country Invaded by France
The map above shows just about every country that has been invaded by France one way or another.
The various ways include:
As with any map of this type the terms and timelines are highly subjective. And misses several countries, for example:
- Invaded
- Colonised
- Former part of an invaded country
- Fought against but did not invade
- Fought on the territory but not against the country
- Airstrikes without land troops
- Temporary Settlement/occupation
- Ground troops in Libya during WW2 (see Battle of Bir Hakeim)
- Argentina (see French blockade of the Río de la Plata)
- Most of South America still technically belonged to Spain during the Napoleonic Wars
- Mauritius (See Mauritius campaign of 1809–11)...
