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 | Kingdom of England | Victory | Nine Years' War | |
| Battle of Beachy Head | 1690-07-10 | 1690-07-10 | Kingdom of England | Victory | Nine Years' War | |
| Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue | 1692-05-29 | 1692-06-04 | Kingdom of England | Defeat | Nine Years' War | |
| Action at Barfleur | 1692-05-29 | 1692-05-29 | Kingdom of England | Inconclusive | Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue | |
| Action at Cherbourg | 1692-06-01 | 1692-06-02 | Kingdom of England | Defeat | Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue | |
| Action at La Hogue | 1692-06-01 | 1692-06-04 | Kingdom of England | Defeat | Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue | |
| Battle of Lagos | 1693-06-27 | 1693-06-27 | Kingdom of England | Victory | Nine Years' War | |
| Battle of Camaret | 1694-06-18 | 1694-06-18 | Kingdom of England | Victory | Nine Years' War | |
| Battle of Texel | 1694-06-29 | 1694-06-29 | Victory | Nine Years' War | ||
| Battle of Dogger Bank | 1696-06-17 | 1696-06-17 | Victory | Nine Years' War | ||
| Battle of Vigo Bay | 1702-10-23 | 1702-10-23 | Kingdom of Spain | Kingdom of England | Defeat | War of the Spanish Succession |
| Battle of the Chesapeake | 1781-09-05 | 1781-09-05 | Kingdom of Great Britain | Victory | Yorktown campaign of American Revolutionary War | |
| Battle of the Saintes | 1782-04-09 | 1782-04-12 | Kingdom of Great Britain | Defeat | American Revolutionary War | |
| Glorious First of June | 1794-06-01 | 1794-06-01 | Kingdom of Great Britain | Defeat | War of the First Coalition | |
| Battle of Diamond Rock | 1805-05-31 | 1805-06-02 | Kingdom of Spain | UKGBI | Victory | Anglo-Spanish War & 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 | UKGBI | Defeat | Anglo-Spanish War & Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition |
| Action of 10 August 1805 | 1805-08-10 | 1805-08-10 | UKGBI | Defeat | Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition | |
| Battle of Trafalgar | 1805-10-21 | 1805-10-21 | Kingdom of Spain | UKGBI | Defeat | Anglo-Spanish War & Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition |
| Battle of Cape Ortegal | 1805-11-04 | 1805-11-04 | UKGBI | Defeat | Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition | |
| Battle of San Domingo | 1806-02-06 | 1806-02-06 | UKGBI | 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 | UKGBI | Defeat | War of the Fifth Coalition | |
| Battle of Grand Port | 1810-08-20 | 1810-08-27 | UKGBI | Victory | Mauritius campaign of Napoleonic Wars | |
| Battle of Foochow | 1884-08-23 | 1884-08-26 |  China | Victory | Sino-French War |