The precise motives for the French intervention have never been clear.
Still, thousands of civilian lives were saved by the French intervention.
The French intervention has been described as one of the first humanitarian interventions.
The effort was eventually stopped by French military intervention.
Even without French intervention, the situation in Scotland was serious enough.
This led to the French intervention in Mexico, which turned out to be a failure.
His death provoked the French intervention the same year.
This French intervention in Mexico lasted from 1861 to 1867.
This meant that any French intervention was in effect subject to a British veto.
With the French intervention, the British fleet was forced to withdraw.