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List of naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars

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French expedition to Sardinia
1792-12-21
1793-05-25 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Truguet , Victory:
KD Sardinia:
Domenico Millelire
KD Spain:
Lángara , -style="vertical-align: top;" , France:
Siege of Toulon The siege of Toulon (29 August – 19 December 1793) was a military engagement that took place during the Federalist revolts of the French Revolutionary Wars. It was undertaken by Republican forces against Royalist rebels supported by Anglo-S ...

1793-08-29
1793-12-19 , Victory:
French Republic:
Carteaux
Dugommier
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Poype
Charlot , Defeat:
French Royalists:
d'Imbert
French Federalists
KD Great Britain:
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Mulgrave
KD Spain:
Lángara
Gravina
KD Naples
KD Sicily
KD Sardinia , -style="vertical-align: top;" , Guernsey:
Action of 23 April 1794 The action of 23 April 1794 took place between a British squadron of five frigates under the command of Sir John Borlase Warren and three frigates and a corvette under the command of Chef d'escadre F. Desgarceaux during the French Revolutionary ...

1794-04-23 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Desgareaux , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
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Atlantic campaign of May 1794 The Atlantic campaign of May 1794 was a series of operations conducted by the British Royal Navy's Channel Fleet against the French Navy's Atlantic Fleet, with the aim of preventing the passage of a strategically important French grain convoy t ...

1794-05-02
1794-06-01 , Inconclusive:
French Republic:
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Nielly , Inconclusive:
KD Great Britain:
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France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
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Glorious First of June The Glorious First of June (1 June 1794), also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant, (known in France as the or ) was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic ...

1794-06-01 , Inconclusive:
French Republic:
Joyeuse , Inconclusive:
KD Great Britain:
Howe , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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Croisière du Grand Hiver The ''Croisière du Grand Hiver'' (French "Campaign of the Great Winter") was a French attempt to organise a winter naval campaign in the wake of the Glorious First of June. Context The Glorious First of June had ended on a strategic success f ...

1794-12-24
1795-02-03 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Joyeuse
Bouvet , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
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Battle of the Gulf of Roses
1795-02-14 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Guet , Victory:
KD Spain:
Lángara , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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Battle of Genoa (1795)
1795-03-13
1795-03-14 , Defeat:
French Republic:
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KD Great Britain:
Hotham
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Cornwallis's Retreat Cornwallis's Retreat was a naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a British Royal Navy squadron of five ships of the line and two frigates was attacked by a much larger French Navy fleet of 12 ships of the line and 11 fr ...

1795-06-16
1795-06-17 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Joyeuse , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
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Battle of Groix The Battle of Groix was a large naval engagement which took place near the island of Groix off the Biscay coast of Brittany on 23 June 1795 ( 5 messidor an III) during the French Revolutionary Wars. The battle was fought between elements of the ...

1795-06-23 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Joyeuse , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
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Battle of the Hyères Islands The Battle of the Hyères Islands was a naval engagement fought between a combined British and Neapolitan fleet and the French Mediterranean Fleet on 13 July 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Since the start of the war in 1793 the Fren ...

1795-07-13 , Defeat:
French Republic:
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KD Great Britain:
William Hotham
Horatio Nelson
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Battle of the Levant Convoy The Battle of the Levant Convoy was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 7 October 1795. During the battle, a powerful French squadron surprised a valuable British convoy from the Levant off Cape St Vincent on the coas ...

1795-10-07 , Victory:
French Republic:
Richery , Defeat:
KD Great Britain:
Taylor , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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Capitulation of Saldanha Bay The Capitulation of Saldanha Bay was the surrender in 1796 to the British Royal Navy of a Dutch expeditionary force sent to recapture the Dutch Cape Colony. In 1794, early in the French Revolutionary Wars, the army of the French Republic overr ...

1796-08-17 , Defeat:
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Lucas , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Elphinstone , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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Newfoundland expedition
1796-08-28
1796-09-05 , Victory:
French Republic:
Richery
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Solano , Defeat:
KD Great Britain:
Newfoundland: Wallace , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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French expedition to Ireland (1796) The French expedition to Ireland, known in French as the ''Expédition d'Irlande'' ("Expedition to Ireland"), was an unsuccessful attempt by the French Republic to assist the outlawed Society of United Irishmen, a popular rebel Irish republic ...

December 1796 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Hoche
Galles , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Kingsmill
Pellew , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (14 February 1797) was one of the opening battles of the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808), as part of the French Revolutionary Wars, where a British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated a greatly superior ...

1797-02-14 , Defeat:
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Morales
Winthuysen
Moreno
Amblimont , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Jervis
Waldegrave
Thompson
Parker
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Battle of Camperdown
1797-10-11 , Defeat:
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KD Great Britain:
Duncan , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
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Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf The Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf was an engagement fought off the Îles Saint-Marcouf near the Cotentin peninsula on the Normandy coast of France in May 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Dislodging a British garrison on the islands ...

1798-05-07 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Muskein , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Price , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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Battle of the Nile
1798-08-01
1798-08-03 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Aigalliers , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
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1798-09-02
1800-09-04 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Vaubois
Perrée
Villeneuve , Victory:
Maltese irregulars:
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Caruana
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KD Great Britain:
Nelson
Ball , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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Battle of Tory Island
1798-10-12 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Bompart , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
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Raid on Dunkirk (1800) The Raid on Dunkirk of 7 July 1800 was an attack by a British Royal Navy force on the well-defended French anchorage of Dunkirk in the English Channel during the French Revolutionary Wars. French naval forces had been blockaded in their harbou ...

1800-07-07 , Defeat:
French Republic:
Castagnier , Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Inman , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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Battle of Copenhagen (1801) The Battle of Copenhagen of 1801 (Danish: ''Slaget på Reden''), also known as the First Battle of Copenhagen to distinguish it from the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, was a naval battle in which a British fleet fought and defeated a sma ...

1801-04-02 , Defeat:
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Bille , Victory:
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Parker
Nelson , -style="vertical-align: top;" ,
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Algeciras campaign
1801-06-13
1801-07-14 , Inconclusive:
French Republic:
Linois
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Mondragón , Inconclusive:
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James Saumarez Admiral of the Red James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez (or Sausmarez), GCB (11 March 1757 – 9 October 1836) was an admiral of the British Royal Navy, known for his victory at the Second Battle of Algeciras. Early life Saumarez was b ...
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Raids on Boulogne The raid on Boulogne in 1801 was a failed attempt by elements of the Royal Navy led by Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson to destroy a flotilla of French vessels anchored in the port of Boulogne, a fleet which was thought to be used for the inv ...

1801-08-04
1801-08-16 , Victory:
French Republic:
Tréville , Defeat:
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