Invasion of France

The term Invasion of France may refer to:

• the 1746 War of the Austrian Succession, Austria-Italian forces supported by the British navy attempted to invade southern France
• the French Revolutionary Wars invasion attempts to defeat the French Revolution
  • the 1794 Flanders Campaign, led by Britain and Austria
  • the 1795 Battle of Quiberon, led by a British-backed force of French Emigres
• the 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition, a British-led coalition invaded Napoleon's France to the south while a multi-national coalition attacked from the north
• the 1815 Hundred Days, the Seventh Coalition invaded France following the Battle of Waterloo
• the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, Prussian forces invaded France due to tensions regarding Prussia's growing influence in central Europe
• the 1905 Schlieffen Plan, the German Empire's strategic plan for victory in a two-front war against France and Russia
• the 1914 Battle of the Marne, the actual implementation of the previous plan at the outset of World War I
• the World War II invasions
  • the May 1940 Battle of France, started by Nazi Germany's invasion of the Ardennes and the Low countries
  • the June 1944 Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy
  • the August 1944 Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of the south of France