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 |
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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 |
Battle of Quiberon Bay | 1759-11-20 | 1759-11-20 | Great Britain | Defeat | Seven Years' War (1759 Invasion Campaign) | |
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 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 | China | Victory | Sino-French War |