WThe French expedition to Korea was an 1866 punitive expedition undertaken by the Second French Empire in retaliation for the earlier Korean execution of seven French Catholic missionaries. The encounter over Ganghwa Island lasted nearly six weeks. The result was an eventual French retreat, and a check on French influence in the region. The encounter also confirmed Korea in its isolationism for another decade, until Japan forced it to open up to trade in 1876 through the Treaty of Ganghwa.
WThe 1872–1880 French military mission to Japan was the second French military mission to that country. It followed the first French military mission to Japan (1867–68), which had ended with the Boshin War and the establishment of the rule of Emperor Meiji.
WThe occupation of Moscow by the Grande Armée under French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte lasted a little more than a month, from September 14 to October 19, 1812, and became a turning point in the French invasion of Russia. During the occupation, the city was looted and devastated by fire, the causes of which are controversial among historians. The last time before this, Moscow was occupied by foreign troops exactly 200 years before.
WThe French Conquest of Tunisia occurred in two phases in 1881: the first consisting of the invasion and securing of the country before the signing of a treaty of protection, and the second consisting of the suppression of a rebellion. The French protectorate of Tunisia that was established lasted until the independence of Tunisia on 20 March 1956.
WThe Pastry War, also known as the First French intervention in Mexico or the First Franco-Mexican War (1838–1839), began in November 1838 with the naval blockade of some Mexican ports and the capture of the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in Veracruz by French forces sent by King Louis-Philippe. It ended several months later in March 1839 with a British-brokered peace. The intervention followed many claims by French nationals of losses due to unrest in Mexico. This incident, the first and lesser of Mexico's two 19th-century wars with France, preceded the French invasion of 1861–67 which supported the short reign of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico whom the Mexicans executed by firing squad at the end of that later conflict.
WThe Siege of Fort Medina took place in 1857 at Médine on the left bank of the Senegal River, in modern-day Mali, when the Toucouleur forces of Omar Saidou Tall unsuccessfully besieged native and French colonial troops under General Louis Faidherbe, governor of Senegal.
WThe Battle of Veracruz, also known as the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa, was a naval engagement that pitted a French frigate squadron under Rear Admiral Charles Baudin against the Mexican citadel of San Juan de Ulúa, which defended the city of Veracruz, from 27 November to 5 December 1838.