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220 France/230 Spain
MID#366
Dispute Number: 366
Date(s): August 27, 1821 to February 27, 1822
Participants: 220 France/230 Spain
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: This dispute occurred during a time of civil unrest in Spain. Spanish
Royalists would flee across the border into French territory and actively use the
territory as bases set up against the Spanish constitutional forces. This resulted in
numerous provocations and border violations. Without breaking diplomatic rela-
tions with the Spanish government, on August 27, 1821, France established a corps
d’observation so that it might bar the royalist forces from crossing the Spanish-French
border. The Spanish regime was dissolved and replaced on February 28, 1822.
MID#3718
Dispute Number: 3718
Date(s): June 25, 1940 to July 1, 1940
Participants: 230 Spain/220 France
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: This case takes place a few days after the signing of the France-Italian
armistice, when France was being overrun by the Axis powers. Spanish forces crossed
the Bidasoa River and occupied a French outpost that had been previously abandoned
by French forces. France was unable to respond to the occupation.
Coding changes: Outcome changed from Unclear. Settlement changed from Unclear.
MID#2541
Dispute Number: 2541
Date(s): March 7, 1984 to March 8, 1984
Participants: 220 France/230 Spain
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: A French patrol boat attacked a Spanish trawler fishing 140 miles off the
southwestern French coast in the Bay of Biscay in French waters. Nine people on the
Spanish trawler were injured. The Spanish government sent the French government a
note of protest in response.
Coding changes: End Date changed from March 7, 1984.
220 France/235 Portugal
MID#3138
Dispute Number: 3138
Date(s): February 19, 1830 to July 14, 1831