A major Franco-Spanish fleet was annihilated at the decisive Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, prompting the vacillating king of Spain to reconsider his alliance with France.

However, a Franco-Spanish fleet was defeated at Trafalgar ( 21 October 1805 ) and all plans to invade Britain were then made impossible.

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.

* February 22 – February 23 – Battle of Toulon: The British fleet is defeated by a Franco-Spanish fleet.

The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel being lost.

A complex plan to distract the British by threatening their possessions in the West Indies failed when a Franco-Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve turned back after an indecisive action off Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805.

This formality had been preceded by French preparations for the invasion of England, and by the Battle of Toulon between the British and a Franco-Spanish fleet.

The combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 38 ships of the line heavily outnumbered the British Mediterranean Fleet of 15 ships of the line, forcing the British to evacuate their positions in first Corsica and then Elba.

Although the spectacular victory was soured by the defeat of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar the following day, French success on land continued as Vienna fell in November, replete with 100, 000 muskets, 500 cannon, and the intact bridges across the Danube.

The Royal Navy, however, secured mastery of the seas and decisively destroyed a Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805.

Nelson led his line into a feint toward the van of the Franco-Spanish fleet and then turned toward the actual point of attack.

The British took 22 vessels of the Franco-Spanish fleet and lost none.

His requests for more ships were rejected as the Admiralty wanted to keep much of the fleet at home to protect against a Franco-Spanish invasion of the British Isles, should they enter the war.

He had to protect inbound trade convoys from the Americas, keep track of the Franco-Spanish fleet, while also keeping an eye on the Dutch fleet at port in the Texel but reportedly ready to sail.

This allowed him to get between the inbound convoy and the Franco-Spanish fleet as well as allowing him to gain the weather gauge which would be a major advantage in any battle.

The next morning the Franco-Spanish fleet had disappeared.

The Franco-Spanish fleet had been blown southwards by a strong gale, and then received orders in early August to return home.

On 21 October 1805, Nelson's fleet defeated a joint Franco-Spanish naval force at the Battle of Trafalgar.

During 1779 a combined Franco-Spanish fleet was able to sail into the English Channel to threaten the coast of Cornwall in the initial stage of a Franco-Spanish invasion of Britain.

While not a defeat for the British, they had failed to take an opportunity to comprehensively defeat the Franco-Spanish fleet when a number of British ships had not engaged the enemy, leading to a mass court martial.

In 1706 it was Rhett who commanded a flotilla that fought off a Franco-Spanish attack on Charles Town.

France was hit by civil unrest known as the Fronde which in turn evolved into the Franco-Spanish War in 1653.

Franco-Spanish bilateral cooperation is enhanced by joint action against Basque ETA terrorism.

The Franco-Spanish army led by the James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick | Duke of Berwick defeated decisively the allied forces of Kingdom of Portugal | Portugal, Great Britain, and the Dutch Republic at the Battle of Almansa.

In a major engagement that ended Franco-Spanish plans for the capture of Jamaica in 1782, he was defeated and taken prisoner by Rodney in the Battle of the Saintes.

* June 14 – Anglo-Spanish War ( 1654 – 1660 ) and Franco-Spanish War ( 1635 – 1659 ): Battle of the Dunes: A Spanish force attempting to lift a siege of Dunkirk is defeated by the French and English.

He also distinguished himself in the Franco-Spanish war by holding out for 48 days with 2, 000 men against a French army of 35, 000.

The refusal of the Portuguese government to join the Continental Blockade against Britain culminated in the 1807 Franco-Spanish invasion led by General Junot.

However he was later criticised for moving his ships to protect Jamaica from attack by a large Franco-Spanish force that had gathered in the area, rather than waiting to support the expedition as he had been ordered.

Efforts to make it into a powerful force under Napoleon I were dashed by the death of Latouche Tréville in 1804, and the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, where the British all but annihilated a combined Franco-Spanish fleet.

During the Franco-Spanish War, the town was briefly occupied by the Spanish, in September 1636.

In 1782, a long Franco-Spanish attempt to seize Gibraltar by water borne forces was abandoned.

In 1723 he was made a general field marshal in the army and in the Spring of that year he and the Irish-born Major General Baron Francis Patrick O ' Neillan assembled 50, 000 men at Mantua in an effort to reclaim all that had been lost the previous year when the Austrians had been driven from Italy by the Franco-Spanish forces.

The tower, defended by approximately 300 Franco-Spanish troops, held out a little longer, but this also fell to the Allied grenadiers.

Many years of routine service with his regiment were broken only by his participation as a volunteer in the Duke de Crillon's Franco-Spanish expedition to Minorca in 1781.

They formed part of the contingent raised by the exiled King Charles II as his contribution to the army of King Philip IV of Spain who were fighting the French and their allies the English Commonwealth under the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell in the Franco-Spanish War and the concurrent Anglo-Spanish War.

Trafalgar 200 was a series of events in 2005 held mostly in the United Kingdom to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, where a British fleet led by Admiral Nelson ( who died in the battle ) defeated a joint Franco-Spanish fleet during the Napoleonic Wars.

It is formed by the towns of Irun and Hondarribia on the Spanish side of the Franco-Spanish frontier and the neighbouring town of Hendaia on the French side.

While in the Antilles, the Franco-Spanish fleet ran into a British convoy worth 5 million Francs escorted by the frigate Barbadoes, 28 guns and sloop Netley.

A combined Franco-Spanish fleet fought off Britain's Mediterranean fleet.

She arranged the marriage of her daughter, Claude, to Charles of Luxembourg in 1501, to reinforce the Franco-Spanish alliance and ensure French success in the Italian Wars ; however, Louis broke off the marriage when it became likely that Anne would not produce a male heir.

In the Battle of Cape Finisterre ( 22 July 1805 ) off Galicia, Spain, the British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder fought an indecisive naval battle against the Combined Franco-Spanish fleet which was returning from the West Indies.