Naval campaigns, operations and battles of the French Revolutionary Wars explained

List of naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars

Today's location of the battle, its name and dateFrench leaderCoalition leader
Italy:
French expedition to Sardinia
1792-12-21
1793-05-25
Defeat:
French Republic:
Truguet
Victory:
KD Sardinia:
Domenico Millelire
KD Spain:
Lángara
France:
Siege of Toulon
1793-08-29
1793-12-19
Victory:
French Republic:
Carteaux
Dugommier
Napoleon
Poype
Charlot
Defeat:
French Royalists:
d'Imbert
French Federalists
KD Great Britain:
Hood
O'Hara
Smith
Mulgrave
KD Spain:
Lángara
Gravina
KD Naples
KD Sicily
KD Sardinia
Guernsey:
Action of 23 April 1794
1794-04-23
Defeat:
French Republic:
Desgareaux
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Warren
Strachan
France:
Atlantic campaign of May 1794
1794-05-02
1794-06-01
Inconclusive:
French Republic:
Joyeuse
Nielly
Inconclusive:
KD Great Britain:
Howe
Montagu
France:
Glorious First of June
1794-06-01
Inconclusive:
French Republic:
Joyeuse
Inconclusive:
KD Great Britain:
Howe
France:
Croisière du Grand Hiver
1794-12-24
1795-02-03
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Smith
Spain:
Battle of the Gulf of Roses
1795-02-14
Defeat:
French Republic:
Guet
Victory:
KD Spain:
Lángara
Italy:
Battle of Genoa (1795)
1795-03-13
1795-03-14
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Hotham
KD Naples
France:
Cornwallis's Retreat
1795-06-16
1795-06-17
Defeat:
French Republic:
Joyeuse
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
William Cornwallis
France:
Battle of Groix
1795-06-23
Defeat:
French Republic:
Joyeuse
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Hood
France:
Battle of the Hyères Islands
1795-07-13
Defeat:
French Republic:
Martin
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
William Hotham
Horatio Nelson
KD Naples
Portugal:
Battle of the Levant Convoy
1795-10-07
Victory:
French Republic:
Richery
Defeat:
KD Great Britain:
Taylor
South Africa:
Capitulation of Saldanha Bay
1796-08-17
Defeat:
:
Lucas
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Elphinstone
Canada:
Newfoundland expedition
1796-08-28
1796-09-05
Victory:
French Republic:
Richery
Spain:
Solano
Defeat:
KD Great Britain:
Newfoundland: Wallace
Bantry Bay:
French expedition to Ireland (1796)
December 1796
Defeat:
French Republic:
Hoche
Galles
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Kingsmill
Pellew
Portugal:
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)
1797-02-14
Defeat:
Spain:
Ramos
Morales
Winthuysen
Moreno
Amblimont
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Jervis
Waldegrave
Thompson
Parker
Nelson
Netherlands:
Battle of Camperdown
1797-10-11
Defeat:
:
Winter
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Duncan
France:
Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf
1798-05-07
Defeat:
French Republic:
Muskein
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Price
Egypt:
Battle of the Nile
1798-08-01
1798-08-03
Defeat:
French Republic:
Aigalliers
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Nelson
Malta:
Siege of Malta (1798–1800)
1798-09-02
1800-09-04
Defeat:
French Republic:
Vaubois
Perrée
Villeneuve
Victory:
Maltese irregulars:
Vitale
Caruana
Borg
KD Great Britain:
Nelson
Ball
Ireland:
Battle of Tory Island
1798-10-12
Defeat:
French Republic:
Bompart
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Warren
France:
Raid on Dunkirk (1800)
1800-07-07
Defeat:
French Republic:
Castagnier
Victory:
KD Great Britain:
Inman
Denmark:
Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
1801-04-02
Defeat:
:
Fischer
Bille
Victory:
United Kingdom:
Parker
Nelson
Spain:
Algeciras campaign
1801-06-13
1801-07-14
Inconclusive:
French Republic:
Linois
Spain:
Mondragón
Inconclusive:
United Kingdom:
James Saumarez
France:
Raids on Boulogne
1801-08-04
1801-08-16
Victory:
French Republic:
Tréville
Defeat:
United Kingdom:
Nelson