List of French naval battles

Template:Short description 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		File:Royal Arms of England (1399-1603).svg Kingdom of England	Defeat	Hundred Years' War
Battle of Saint-Mathieu	1512-08-10	1512-08-10		File:Royal Arms of England (1399-1603).svg Kingdom of England	Defeat	War of the League of Cambrai
Battle of the Solent	1545-07-18	1545-07-19		File:Royal Arms of England (1399-1603).svg Kingdom of England	Inconclusive	Italian War of 1542–1546
Battle of Bantry Bay	1689-05-11	1689-05-11		Template:Flagcountry	Victory	Nine Years' War
Battle of Beachy Head	1690-07-10	1690-07-10		Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Victory	Nine Years' War
Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue	1692-05-29	1692-06-04		Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Defeat	Nine Years' War
Action at Barfleur	1692-05-29	1692-05-29		Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Inconclusive	Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue (Nine Years' War)
Action at Cherbourg	1692-06-01	1692-06-02		Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Defeat	Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue (Nine Years' War)
Action at La Hogue	1692-06-01	1692-06-04		Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Defeat	Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue (Nine Years' War)
Battle of Lagos (1693)	1693-06-27	1693-06-27		Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Victory	Nine Years' War
Battle of Texel	1694-06-29	1694-06-29		Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Victory	Nine Years' War
Battle of Dogger Bank	1696-06-17	1696-06-17		Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Victory	Nine Years' War
Battle of Sainte Marthe	1702-08-19	1702-08-25		Template:Flagcountry	Inconclusive	War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Vigo Bay	1702-10-23	1702-10-23	Template:Flagdeco Kingdom of Spain	Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Defeat	War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Málaga	1704-08-24	1704-08-24	Template:Flagdeco Kingdom of Spain	Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Dutch Republic	Inconclusive	War of the Spanish Succession
Action of 2 May 1707	1707-02-05	1707-03-06		Template:Flagcountry	Victory	War of the Spanish Succession
Battle at The Lizard	1707-21-10	1707-21-10		Template:Flagcountry	Victory	War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Rio de Janeiro	1711-12-09	1711-22-09		Template:Plainlist Template:Flagicon State of Brazil	Victory	War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Toulon	1744-21-02	1744-22-02	Template:Flagdeco Spain	Template:Flagcountry	Indecisive	War of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Minorca	1756-20-05	1756-20-05		Template:Flagcountry	Victory	Seven Years' War
Battle of Cuddalore (1758)	1758-29-04	1758-29-04		File:Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg British East India Company	Indecisive	Seven Years' War
Battle of Pondicherry	1759-10-09	1759-10-09		Template:Flagcountry	Indecisive	Seven Years' War
Battle of Lagos (1759)	1759-08-18	1759-08-19		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	Seven Years' War (1759 Invasion Campaign)
Battle of Quiberon Bay	1759-11-20	1759-11-20		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	Seven Years' War (1759 Invasion Campaign)
Battle of Ushant	1778-27-07	1778-27-07		Template:Flagcountry	Indecisive	American Revolutionary War
Battle of Grenada	1779-07-06	1779-07-06		Template:Flagcountry	Victory	American Revolutionary War (West Indies)
Battle of the Chesapeake	1781-09-05	1781-09-05		Template:Flagcountry	Victory	American Revolutionary War (Yorktown campaign)
Battle of Sadras	1782-17-02	1782-17-02		Template:Flagcountry	Indecisive	American Revolutionary War
Battle of the Saintes	1782-04-09	1782-04-12		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	American Revolutionary War
Glorious First of June	1794-06-01	1794-06-01		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	War of the First Coalition
Battle of Genoa	1795-03-13	1795-03-14		Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Kingdom of Naples	Defeat	War of the First Coalition
Battle of Groix	1795-06-23	1795-06-23		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	War of the First Coalition
Battle of the Hyères Islands	1795-07-13	1795-07-13		Template:Flagcountry Template:Country data Kingdom of Naples	Defeat	War of the First Coalition
Battle of the Nile	1798-08-01	1798-08-03		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	Mediterranean campaign of 1798 of the French Revolutionary Wars
Second Battle of Algeciras	1801-07-12	1801-07-13	Template:Flagdeco Kingdom of Spain	Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagdeco Kingdom of Portugal	Defeat	Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) & War of the Second Coalition of French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Cape Finisterre	1805-07-22	1805-07-22	Template:Flagdeco Kingdom of Spain	Template:Flagcountry	Indecisive	Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) & Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition
Action of 10 August 1805	1805-08-10	1805-08-10		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition
Battle of Trafalgar	1805-10-21	1805-10-21	Template:Flagdeco Kingdom of Spain	Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) & Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition
Battle of Cape Ortegal	1805-11-04	1805-11-04		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition
Battle of San Domingo	1806-02-06	1806-02-06		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	War of the Third Coalition & West Indies Campaign of Napoleonic Wars
Capture of the Rosily Squadron	1808-06-09	1808-06-14		Template:Flagdeco Kingdom of Spain	Defeat	Peninsular War
Battle of the Basque Roads	1809-04-11	1809-04-24		Template:Flagcountry	Defeat	War of the Fifth Coalition
Battle of Grand Port	1810-08-20	1810-08-27		Template:Flagcountry	Victory	Mauritius campaign of Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Fuzhou	1884-08-23	1884-08-26		Template:Flagicon China	Victory	Sino-French War