Major conflicts and commitments[edit]
Companies free men took part in every conflict involving France of 1690-1761 in Europe, the Americas, and India. Their commitments were normally related to naval warfare, but they were very often used on land. Are listed here as their main commitments. Naval battles isolated and "helping hands" delivered during the guerrilla war in America are too many to be presented.
In Europe[edit]
War of the League of Augsburg (1688-1697)
- Battle of La Hogue (29 May 1692)
- Battle of Lagos (27 June 1693)
War of the Spanish Succession (1709-1714)
- Battle of Malplaquet (Sept. 11, 1709)
- Battle of Denain (24 July 1712)
War of the Polish Succession (1733-1738)
- Siege of Danzig (1734) (February 22 to July 9, 1734)
Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
- Battle of Minorca (1756)
- Battle of Lagos (19 August 1759)
- Battle of Quiberon Bay (20 November 1759)
- Battle of Belle-Isle (1761)
In America[edit]
King William's War[edit]
- Siege of Quebec (16 to 21 October 1690)
- Shipping Cartagena (2 May 1697)
Queen Anne's War[edit]
- Defense of Guadeloupe (1703)
- Shipments Rio (1710 and June 1711 to February 1712)
Inter War Period[edit]
- War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720)
- Naval battle of the Dauphine (Bay Island Mobile ) (19 August 1719)
- Seat Pensacola (2 September 1719)
- Wars Foxes (1712-1714 and 1729)
- Wars Natchez (1717-1719 and 1729-1731)
- Wars Chickasaws (1736 and 1739-1740)
King George's War[edit]
French and Indian War[edit]
- Battle of Fort Necessity (July 3, 1754)
- Battle of the Monongahela (9 July 1755)
- Battle of Fort Carillon (8 July 1758)
- Siege of Louisbourg (June–July 1758)
- Defense of Guadeloupe (April 1758)
- Plains of Abraham (September 13, 1759)
- Battle of Sainte-Foy (April 28, 1760)
- Defense of Martinique (1761)
In India[edit]
Third Intercolonial War
- Battle of Negapatam (6 July 1746)
- Seat Madras (August 21 September 1746)
- Siege of Pondicherry (Fall 1748)
Fourth Intercolonial War (1754-1760)
- Battle of Cuddalore (29 April 1758)
- Battle of Negapatam (3 August 1758)
- Seat Madras (December 1758-February 1759)
- Battle of Pondicherry (10 September 1759)
- Siege of Pondicherry (March 1760 to January 4, 1761)
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