The Battle of Cuddalore refers to one of several conflicts near the south Indian town of Cuddalore:
- Siege of Cuddalore (First Carnatic War), an decisive British victory during the War of the Austrian Succession from late 1746 to March 1747
- Battle of Cuddalore (1758), an indecisive naval battle during the Seven Years' War
- Siege of Cuddalore, a 1783 siege that was part of the American War of Independence and the Second Anglo-Mysore War
- Battle of Cuddalore (1783), a naval battle that occurred during the siege
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