List of French naval battles

The following is an incomplete list of famous French naval battles from the Middle Ages to modern France.

Name Start Date End Date Allies Enemies Result Part of
Battle of Sluys 1340-06-24 1340-06-24 Kingdom of England Defeat Hundred Years' War
Battle of La Rochelle 1372-06-22 1372-06-23 Crown of Castile Kingdom of England Victory Hundred Years' War
Battle of the Solent 1545-07-18 1545-07-19 Kingdom of England Inconclusive Italian War of 1542–1546
Battle of Bantry Bay 1689-05-11 1689-05-11  England Victory Nine Years' War
Battle of Beachy Head 1690-07-10 1690-07-10  England
 Dutch Republic
Victory Nine Years' War
Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue 1692-05-29 1692-06-04  England
 Dutch Republic
Defeat Nine Years' War
Action at Barfleur 1692-05-29 1692-05-29  England
 Dutch Republic
Inconclusive Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue (Nine Years' War)
Action at Cherbourg 1692-06-01 1692-06-02  England
 Dutch Republic
Defeat Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue (Nine Years' War)
Action at La Hogue 1692-06-01 1692-06-04  England
 Dutch Republic
Defeat Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue (Nine Years' War)
Battle of Lagos 1693-06-27 1693-06-27  England
 Dutch Republic
Victory Nine Years' War
Battle of Camaret 1694-06-18 1694-06-18  England
 Dutch Republic
Victory Nine Years' War
Battle of Texel 1694-06-29 1694-06-29  Dutch Republic Victory Nine Years' War
Battle of Dogger Bank 1696-06-17 1696-06-17  Dutch Republic Victory Nine Years' War
Battle of Sainte Marthe 1702-08-19 1702-08-25  England Inconclusive War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Vigo Bay 1702-10-23 1702-10-23 Kingdom of Spain  England
 Dutch Republic
Defeat War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Málaga 1704-08-24 1704-08-24 Kingdom of Spain  England
 Dutch Republic
Inconclusive War of the Spanish Succession
Action of 2 May 1707 1707-02-05 1707-03-06  Great Britain Victory War of the Spanish Succession
Battle at The Lizard 1707-21-10 1707-21-10  Great Britain Victory War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Rio de Janeiro 1711-12-09 1711-22-09 Victory War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Toulon 1744-21-02 1744-22-02 Spain  Great Britain Victory War of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Minorca 1756-20-05 1756-20-05  Great Britain Victory Seven Years' War
Battle of Cuddalore (1758) 1758-29-04 1758-29-04 British East India Company Victory Seven Years' War
Battle of Pondicherry 1759-10-09 1759-10-09  Great Britain Victory Seven Years' War
Battle of Quiberon Bay 1759-11-20 1759-11-20  Great Britain Defeat Seven Years' War (1759 Invasion Campaign)
Battle of Ushant 1778-27-07 1778-27-07  Great Britain Victory American Revolutionary War
Battle of Grenada 1779-07-06 1779-07-06  Great Britain Victory American Revolutionary War (West Indies)
Battle of the Chesapeake 1781-09-05 1781-09-05  Great Britain Victory American Revolutionary War (Yorktown campaign)
Battle of Sadras 1782-17-02 1782-17-02  Great Britain Victory American Revolutionary War
Battle of the Saintes 1782-04-09 1782-04-12  Great Britain Defeat American Revolutionary War
Glorious First of June 1794-06-01 1794-06-01  Great Britain Defeat War of the First Coalition
Second Battle of Algeciras 1801-07-12 1801-07-13 Kingdom of Spain  United Kingdom
Kingdom of Portugal
Defeat Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) & War of the Second Coalition of French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Diamond Rock 1805-05-31 1805-06-02 Kingdom of Spain  United Kingdom Victory Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) & Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition & West Indies Campaign of Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Cape Finisterre 1805-07-22 1805-07-22 Kingdom of Spain  United Kingdom Defeat Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) & Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition
Action of 10 August 1805 1805-08-10 1805-08-10  United Kingdom Defeat Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition
Battle of Trafalgar 1805-10-21 1805-10-21 Kingdom of Spain  United Kingdom Defeat Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) & Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition
Battle of Cape Ortegal 1805-11-04 1805-11-04  United Kingdom Defeat Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition
Battle of San Domingo 1806-02-06 1806-02-06  United Kingdom Defeat War of the Third Coalition & West Indies Campaign of Napoleonic Wars
Capture of the Rosily Squadron 1808-06-09 1808-06-14 Kingdom of Spain Defeat Peninsular War
Battle of the Basque Roads 1809-04-11 1809-04-24  United Kingdom Defeat War of the Fifth Coalition
Battle of Grand Port 1810-08-20 1810-08-27  United Kingdom Victory Mauritius campaign of Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Fuzhou 1884-08-23 1884-08-26 Qing dynasty China Victory Sino-French War