# 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 Saint-Mathieu | 1512-08-10 | 1512-08-10 | | Kingdom of England | Defeat | War of the League of Cambrai |
| 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) | 1693-06-27 | 1693-06-27 | | 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 | | Portuguese Empire State of Brazil | Victory | War of the Spanish Succession |
| Battle of Toulon | 1744-21-02 | 1744-22-02 | Spain | Great Britain | Indecisive | 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 | Indecisive | Seven Years' War |
| Battle of Pondicherry | 1759-10-09 | 1759-10-09 | | Great Britain | Indecisive | Seven Years' War |
| Battle of Lagos (1759) | 1759-08-18 | 1759-08-19 | | Great Britain | Defeat | Seven Years' War (1759 Invasion Campaign) |
| 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 | Indecisive | 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 | Indecisive | 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 |
| Battle of Genoa | 1795-03-13 | 1795-03-14 | | Great Britain Kingdom of Naples | Defeat | War of the First Coalition |
| Battle of Groix | 1795-06-23 | 1795-06-23 | | Great Britain | Defeat | War of the First Coalition |
| Battle of the Hyères Islands | 1795-07-13 | 1795-07-13 | | Great Britain Kingdom of Naples | Defeat | War of the First Coalition |
| Battle of the Nile | 1798-08-01 | 1798-08-03 | | Great Britain | Defeat | Mediterranean campaign of 1798 of the French Revolutionary Wars |
| 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 Cape Finisterre | 1805-07-22 | 1805-07-22 | Kingdom of Spain | United Kingdom | 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 | | 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 |