This timeline depicts all of the major wars that France has been through since it began colonial expansion, until its final boundarys set in WWII. The wars that I focused on occured on the european front rather than the americas with the exception of the haitian slave revolt. There are several wars that occured throughout this period that were important to the development of france inside its boundries and without as well. The timeline ends with the proceedings of decolinization after WWII