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List of military encounters

Prehistoric and Classical period

• Celtic conquest of Britain
• Roman conquest of Britain
  Roman conquest of Britain
  
  By AD 43, the time of the main Roman invasion of Britain, Great Britain had already frequently been the target of invasions, planned and actual, by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire....
   (43)
• Boudica's uprising
  Boudica
  
  Boudica was a queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia in England, who led an uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire....
   (61)
• Battle of Watling Street
  Battle of Watling Street
  
  The Battle of Watling Street took place in Roman Britain in AD 60 or 61 between an alliance of Indigenous peoples of Europe Brythonic tribes, led by Boudica, and the Ancient Romes led by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus....
  

Medieval period

• Battle of Aylesford
  Battle of Aylesford
  
  The Battle of Aylesford or Epsford or Aegelesthrep was, according to The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, fought in 455 AD between Saxon invaders and the native Romano-Britons near Aylesford in the England county of Kent....
   (455) Anglo-Saxons, Romano-Britons
• Battle of Ellandun
• Viking invasions (793–1066)
• Raid on Lindisfarne
  Lindisfarne
  
  Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England also known as Holy Island, the name of the civil parish. It has a population of 162 ...
   (793)
• Campaign of Alfred the Great
  Alfred the Great
  
  Alfred the Great , also spelled ?lfred, was king of the southern Anglo-Saxons kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is noted for his defence of the kingdom against the Danish people Vikings, becoming the only English people king to be awarded the epithet "the Great"....
   (871–899)
• Battle of Ethandun (878)
• Battle of Cynwit (878)
• Battle of Ashingdon
  Battle of Ashingdon
  
  The Battle of Ashingdon was fought on October 18, 1016, at Assandun. There is dispute over whether Assandun may actually be today's Ashdon, as well as the long supposed Ashingdon, in southeast Essex, England....
   (1016)
• Battle of Fulford
  Battle of Fulford
  
  The Battle of Fulford took place at the village of Fulford, near York in England on September 20 1066, when King Harald III of Norway Hardrada and Tostig, his England ally, fought and defeated the Northern Earls Edwin, Earl of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria....
   (1066)
• Battle of Stamford Bridge
  Battle of Stamford Bridge
  
  The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066. This was shortly after an invading Norway army under King Harald III of Norway defeated the army of the northern earls Edwin, Earl of Mercia and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria at the Battle of Fulford two miles s...
   (1066)
• Norman Conquest of England
  Norman conquest of England
  
  The Norman conquest of England began in 1066 AD with the invasion of the Kingdom of England by the troops of William I of England, Duke of Normandy , and his victory at the Battle of Hastings....
   (1066)
• The Battle of Hastings 1066
• Rebellion of 1088
  Rebellion of 1088
  
  The Rebellion of 1088 occurred after the death of William the Conqueror and concerned the division of lands in the Kingdom of England and the Duchy of Normandy between his two sons William Rufus and Robert Curthose....
   - civil war
• The Anarchy
  The Anarchy
  
  The Anarchy or The Nineteen Year Winter refers to a period of history of England during the reign of the Normans King, Stephen of England, which was characterised by civil war and unsettled government....
   (1135–1154) - civil war
• Battle of Renfrew
  Battle of Renfrew
  
  The Battle of Renfrew in 1164 was a significant engagement between the Scottish crown and Somerled, the Gaelic king of the Hebrides, which saw the death and defeat of the latter....
   (1164)
• Revolt of 1173-1174
  Revolt of 1173-1174
  
  The Revolt of 1173–1174 was a rebellion against Henry II of England by three of his sons, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine and rebel supporters....
   - civil war
• Third Crusade
  Third Crusade
  
  The Third Crusade , also known as the Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin .After the failure of the Second Crusade, the Zengid dynasty controlled a unified Syria and engaged in a conflict with the Fatimid dynasty rulers of Egypt, which ultimately resulted in the unification of Egy...
   (1189-1192)
• Richard I's war in France
• Welsh uprising of 1211
  Welsh uprising of 1211
  
  The Welsh uprising of 1211 was a rebellion by the people residing in Wales against King John of England. Although technically defeated, this uprising resulted in increased independence from England for the Welsh....
  
• Battle of Bouvines
  Battle of Bouvines
  
  The Battle of Bouvines, July 27, 1214, was a conclusive medieval battle ending the twelve year old War of Bouvines that was important to the early development of both the France in the Middle Ages by confirming the French crown's sovereignty over the duchy of Normandy of Brittany and Normandy and also in forcing the English king...
   (1214) - loss of Normandy
• First Barons' War
  First Barons' War
  
  The First Barons' War was a combination of :* a civil war in the Kingdom of England, between :**the forces of a number of rebellious barons, led by Robert Fitzwalter, and...
   (1215–1217) - civil war
• Henry III's war in France
• Battle of Largs
  Battle of Largs
  
  The Battle of Largs was an meeting engagement fought between the armies of Norway and Scotland near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland on 2 October 1263....
  
• Second Barons' War
  Second Barons' War
  
  The Second Barons' War was a civil war in England between the forces of a number of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, against the Royalist forces led by Prince Edward ....
   (1264–1267) - civil war
• Welsh Uprising (1282) - civil war
• Edward I's war in France
• The First War of Scottish Independence
  First War of Scottish Independence
  
  The First War of Scottish Independence lasted from the outbreak of the war with the invasion by England in 1296 until the de jure restoration of Scottish independence with the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328....
   (1296–1328)
• Battle of Dunbar
  Battle of Dunbar
  
  There were two Battles of Dunbar:*Battle of Dunbar , in the Wars of Scottish Independence.*Battle of Dunbar , in the Third English Civil War....
   (1296)
• Battle of Stirling Bridge
  Battle of Stirling Bridge
  
  The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined England forces of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth....
   (1297)
• Battle of Roslin
  Battle of Roslin
  
  The Battle of Roslin was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence, taking place on 24 February 1303 at Roslin, Scotland. A Scotland army led by John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch and Simon Fraser defeated the England....
   (1303)
• Battle of Methven
  Battle of Methven
  
  The Battle of Methven took place at Methven, Perth and Kinross in Scotland in 1306, during the Wars of Scottish Independence....
   (1306)
• Battle of Bannockburn
  Battle of Bannockburn
  
  The Battle of Bannockburn was a significant Scotland victory in the Wars of Scottish Independence. It was the decisive battle in the First War of Scottish Independence....
   (1314)
• Edward II's war in France
• The Second War of Scottish Independence
  Second War of Scottish Independence
  
  The Second War of Scottish Independence began properly in 1333 when Edward III of England overturned the 1328 Treaty of Northampton, under which England recognised the legitimacy of the dynasty established by Robert I of Scotland....
   (1332–1357)
• Hundred Years' War
  Hundred Years' War
  
  The Hundred Years' War was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne, which was vacant with the extinction of the senior House of Capet line of French kings....
   (1337 to 1453) against France
• War of Edward III (1337 to 1360) - victory
• War of Charles the Wise (1369 to 1396) - defeat
• War of Henry V (1415 to 1422) - victory
• War of Charles the Victorious (1428 to 1453) - defeat
• Wars of the Roses
  Wars of the Roses
  
  The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars fought in England between supporters of the Houses of House of Lancaster and House of York....
   (1455–1485) - Richard III
  Richard III of England
  
  Richard III was List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England of Kingdom of England from 1483 until his death. He was the last king from the House of York, and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the culmination of the Wars of the Roses and the end of the Plantagenet dynasty....
   was the last English king to die in combat - civil war

Early Modern period

• Italian Wars
  Italian Wars
  
  The Italian Wars, often referred to as the Great Italian Wars or the Great Wars of Italy in historical works, were a series of conflicts from 1494 to 1559 that involved, at various times, most of the Italian city-states, the Papal States, all the major states of western Europe as well as the Ottoman Empire....
   (1494 – 1559)
• War of the League of Cambrai
  War of the League of Cambrai
  
  The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and by several other names, was a major conflict in the Italian Wars....
   (1511-1513)
• Italian War of 1521
  Italian War of 1521
  
  The Italian War of 1521?26, sometimes known as the Four Years' War, was a part of the Italian Wars. The war pitted Francis I of France and the Republic of Venice against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry VIII of England, and the Papal States....
   (1521-1525)
• Italian War of 1542
  Italian War of 1542
  
  The Italian War of 1542?46 was a conflict late in the Italian Wars, pitting Francis I of France and Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Henry VIII of England of Kingdom of England....
   (1542-1546)
• Italian War of 1551
  Italian War of 1551
  
  The Italian War of 1551 , sometimes known as the Habsburg-Valois War, began when Henry II of France, who had succeeded Francis I of France to the throne, declared war against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor with the intent of recapturing Italy and ensuring French, rather than Habsburg, domination of European affairs....
   (1557-1559)
• Cornish Rebellion
  Cornish Rebellion of 1497
  
  The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 was a Popular revolt in late medieval Europe by the people of Cornwall in the far south west of Great Britain. Its primary cause was the raising of war taxes by King Henry VII of England on the impoverished Cornish people for a campaign against Scotland, motivated by brief border skirmishes that were inspired...
   (1497)
• Revolt of Silken Thomas (1534)
• Anglo-Scottish Wars
  Anglo-Scottish Wars
  
  The Anglo-Scottish Wars were a series of wars fought between England and Scotland during the sixteenth century.After the Wars of Scottish Independence, England and Scotland had fought several times during the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....
   (1513; 1544-1551)
• Third Cornish Uprising
  Prayer Book Rebellion
  
  The Prayer Book Rebellion, Prayer Book Revolt, Prayer Book Rising, Western Rising or Western Rebellion was a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon, in 1549....
   (1549)
• Loss of Calais
  Calais
  
  Calais is a town in northern France in the Departments of France of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's capital is its third-largest city of Arras....
   (1558) - then England's last continental possession
• Desmond Wars (1569-1583)
• Anglo-Spanish War
  Anglo-Spanish War (1585)
  
  The Anglo?Spanish War was an intermittent conflict between the kingdoms of Spain and Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. The war was punctuated by widely separated battles, and began with England's unsuccessful military expedition in 1585 to the Netherlands under the command of the Earl of Leicester in support of the resista...
   (1585-1604)
• Nine Years War (1594–1603)
• Eighty Years' War (1568–1648)
• First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1613) - North America
• Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1622) - North America
• Anglo-Spanish War (1625-1630) (As a small part of the Thirty Years' War)
• Anglo-French War (1626-1629)
• Wars of the Three Kingdoms
  Wars of the Three Kingdoms
  
  The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 after these three countries had come under the "Personal Rule" of the same monarch....
   (1639–1651) - civil war
• First Bishops' War (1639)
• Second Bishops' War (1640)
• Irish Rebellion
  Irish Rebellion of 1641
  
  The Irish Rebellion of 1641 began as an attempted coup d'?tat by Irish Roman Catholic Church gentry, but developed into inter communal violence between native Irish people and England and Scotland Protestant settlers, starting a conflict known as the Irish Confederate Wars....
   (1641)
• The Confederate’s War
  Irish Confederate Wars
  
  This article is concerned with the military history of Ireland from 1641-53. For the political context of this conflict, see Confederate Ireland....
   (1642-1648)
• English Civil War
  English Civil War
  
  The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Roundhead and Cavalier. The First English Civil War and Second English Civil War civil wars pitted the supporters of Charles I of England against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the Third English Civil War saw fighting between supporters...
   (1642–1651)
• First English Civil War
  First English Civil War
  
  The First English Civil War commenced the series of three wars known as the English Civil War . "The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Roundhead and Cavaliers from 1642 until 1651, and includes the Second English Civil War and the Third English Civil War ....
   (1642–1646)
• civil war in Scotland (1644–1647)
• Second English Civil War
  Second English Civil War
  
  The Second English Civil War was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliament of England and Cavaliers from 1642 until 1652 and include the First English Civil War and the Third English Civil War ....
   (1648)
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
  Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
  
  The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland refers to the re-conquest of Ireland by the forces of the English Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....
   (1649-1653)
• Third English Civil War
  Third English Civil War
  
  The Third English Civil War was the last of the English Civil War , a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Roundheads and Cavaliers....
   (1650–1651)
• Third Anglo-Powhatan War (1644) - North America
• First Anglo-Dutch War
  First Anglo-Dutch War
  
  The First Anglo?Dutch War was the first of the four Anglo-Dutch Wars. It was fought entirely at sea between the navies of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces of the Netherlands....
   (1652–1654)
• Anglo-Spanish War
  Anglo-Spanish War (1654)
  
  The Anglo-Spanish War fought between the English Commonwealth The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell and Spain between 1654 and 1660. It was caused by commercial rivalry....
   (1654–1660)
• Second Anglo-Dutch War
  Second Anglo-Dutch War
  
  The Second Anglo-Dutch War was fought between England and the Dutch Republic from 4 March, 1665 until 31 July, 1667. England tried to end the Dutch domination of world trade....
   (1665–1667)
• War of Devolution
  War of Devolution
  
  The War of Devolution saw Louis XIV of France's France armies overrun the Habsburgcontrolled Southern Netherlands and the Franche-Comt?, but forced to give most of it back by a Triple Alliance of England, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ....
   (1667–1668)
• Third Anglo-Dutch War
  Third Anglo-Dutch War
  
  The Third Anglo-Dutch War or Third Dutch War was a military conflict between England and the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands lasting from 1672 to 1674....
   (1672–1674)
• King Philip's War
  King Philip's War
  
  King Philip's War, sometimes called Metacomet's War or Metacom's Rebellion, was an armed conflict between indigenous peoples of the Americas inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies from 1675–1676....
   (1675–1676) - North America
• Virginia Rebellion
  Bacon's Rebellion
  
  Bacon's Rebellion was an rebellion in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon , a wealthy colonist. It was the first rebellion in the Thirteen colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year....
   (1676)
• Monmouth Rebellion
  Monmouth Rebellion
  
  The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, was an attempt to overthrow James II of England, who had become King of England at the death of his elder brother Charles II of England on 6 February 1685....
   (1685) - civil war
• Nine Years War (1688–1697) - England, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Holland v France
• King William's War
  King William's War
  
  The first of the French and Indian Wars, King William's War was the name used in the English colonies in America to refer to the North American theater of the Nine Years' War ....
   (1688–1697) - North America
• Jacobite Rebellions
  Jacobitism
  
  Jacobitism was the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the House of Stuart kings to the thrones of Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland....
   (1689-91; 1715-16; 1719; 1745-46) - Civil War
• Williamite war in Ireland
  Williamite war in Ireland
  
  The Williamite War in Ireland, also known as the Jacobite War in Ireland and in Ireland as Cogadh an D? R? or The War of the Two Kings, was the opening conflict following the deposition of King James II of England in 1688 when he attempted to regain the throne of his Three Kingdoms from his daughter Mary II of England who repl...
   (1688–1691)
• Battle of the Boyne
  Battle of the Boyne
  
  The Battle of the Boyne was fought in 1690 between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish and Irish thrones - the Catholic James II of England and the Protestant William III of England, who had Glorious revolution....
   (1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
• Clifton Moor Skirmish
  Clifton Moor Skirmish
  
  The Clifton Moor Skirmish took place between forces of the British Hanoverian government and Jacobite rebels on the 19 December 1745. Since the commander of the British forces, the Duke of Cumberland, was aware of the Jacobite presence in Derby the Jacobite leader Prince Charles Edward Stuart decided to retreat north back towards Scotland....
  , near Penrith (1745) - last battle on English
  England
  
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   soil
• Battle of Culloden
  Battle of Culloden
  
  The Battle of Culloden was the final clash between the French-supported Jacobitism and the House of Hanover British Government in the 1745 Jacobite Rising#The 'Forty-Five'....
   (1746) - last battle in Great Britain
  Great Britain
  
  Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
  
• War of the Spanish Succession
  War of the Spanish Succession
  
  War of the Spanish Succession was a war fought in 1701-1714, in which several European powers combined to stop a possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under a single Bourbon monarch, upsetting the European Balance of power in international relations....
   (1702–1713) - England and Scotland/Great Britain, Germany, Portugal and Holland v France and Spain
• Queen Anne's War
  Queen Anne's War
  
  Queen Anne's War was the second in a series of four French and Indian Wars fought between France and England . in North America for control of the continent and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe....
   (1702–1713)
• War of the Quadruple Alliance
  War of the Quadruple Alliance
  
  The War of the Quadruple Alliance was a result of the ambitions of King Philip V of Spain, his wife, Isabella Farnese, and his chief minister Giulio Alberoni to retake territories in Italy and to claim the French throne....
   (1718–1720) - Great Britain, France, Austria and Holland v Italy and Spain
• War of Jenkins' Ear
  War of Jenkins' Ear
  
  The War of Jenkins' Ear was a conflict between Kingdom of Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1742. Its unusual name relates to Robert Jenkins , captain of a British merchant ship, who exhibited his severed ear in Parliament of the United Kingdom following the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731....
   (1739–1742) - Great Britain v Spain
• War of the Austrian Succession
  War of the Austrian Succession
  
  The War of the Austrian Succession involved nearly all the Power in international relations of Europe. The war began under the pretext that Maria Theresa of Austria was ineligible to succeed to the House of Habsburg throne, because Salic law precluded royal inheritance by a woman, though in reality this was a convenient excuse put forward by...
   (1742–1748) - Great Britain, Austria and Holland v France and Germany
• King George's War
  King George's War
  
  King George's War is the name given to the operations in North America that formed part of the 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession. The name "King George's War" is only used in the United States....
   (1744–1748)
• Seven Years' War
  Seven Years' War
  
  The Seven Years' War lasted between 1756?1763 and involved all of the major European powers of the period. The war pitted Kingdom of Prussia and Kingdom of Great Britain and a coalition of smaller German states against an alliance consisting of Archduchy of Austria, Early Modern France, Russian Empire, Kingdom of Sweden, and Electorate of Sa...
   (1756–1763) - the first "world war"
• French and Indian War
  French and Indian War
  
  The French and Indian War was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War, known in Canada as the War of the Conquest. The name refers to the two main enemies of the British: the royal French forces and the various Indigenous peoples of the Americas forces allied with them....
   (1754–1763) - Great Britain and Germany v Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, Spain and Portugal
• Anglo-Cherokee War
  Anglo-Cherokee War
  
  The Anglo-Cherokee War , also known as the Cherokee War, the Cherokee Uprising, the Cherokee Rebellion, was a conflict between Kingdom of Great Britain forces in North America and Cherokee Indians during the French and Indian War....
   (1759–1763) - North America
• Pontiac's Rebellion
  Pontiac's Rebellion
  
  Pontiac's Rebellion was a war launched in 1763 by North American First Nations who were dissatisfied with Kingdom of Great Britain policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War ....
   (1763–1766) - North America
• First Anglo-Mysore War
  First Anglo-Mysore War
  
  The First Anglo-Mysore War was a war in India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company.Hyder Ali, ruler of Mysore, had begun to occupy the serious attention of the British government in Calcutta....
   (1766–1769) - India
• American War of Independence
  American Revolutionary War
  
  The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
   (1775–1783) - North America, civil war
• First Anglo-Maratha War
  First Anglo-Maratha War
  
  The First Anglo-Maratha War was the first of three Anglo-Maratha wars fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire in India....
   (1775–1782) - India
• Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
  Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
  
  The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic. The war, motivated by imperial competition, was a disaster for the Netherlands....
   (1780–1784)
• Second Anglo-Mysore War
  Second Anglo-Mysore War
  
  The Second Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in India between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Mysore. At the time, Mysore was a key France ally in India, and the Franco-British conflict raging on account of the American Revolutionary War helped spark Anglo-Mysorean hostilities in India....
   (1780–1784) - India
• Third Anglo-Mysore War
  Third Anglo-Mysore War
  
  The Third Anglo-Mysore War was a war in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the English East India Company. It was the third of four Anglo-Mysore Wars....
   (1789–1792) - India

19th Century

• French Revolutionary Wars
  French Revolutionary Wars
  
  The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states....
   (1793–1802) - Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Russia, Germany v France
• War of the First Coalition
  French Revolutionary Wars
  
  The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states....
   (1793–1797)
• War of the Second Coalition
  French Revolutionary Wars
  
  The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states....
   (1798–1801)
• Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
  Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
  
  The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a war in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company under the Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley....
   (1798–1799) - India
• Irish Rebellion
  Irish Rebellion of 1798
  
  The Irish Rebellion of 1798 , or 1798 rebellion as it is known locally, was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against United Kingdom and its subject Kingdom of Ireland....
   (1798)
• Napoleonic Wars
  Napoleonic Wars
  
  The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon I of France First French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815....
   (1803–1815) - United Kingdom, Prussia, Austria, Sweden, Spain and Russia v France
• British invasions of the Río de la Plata
  British invasions of the Río de la Plata
  
  The British invasions of the R?o de la Plata were a series of unsuccessful United Kingdom attempts to seize control of the Spain colony located around the La Plata Basin in South America ....
   (1806–1807)
• Anglo-Turkish War (1807–1809)
• Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)
• Gunboat War
  Gunboat War
  
  The Gunboat War was the naval conflict between Denmark?Norway and the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The war's name is derived from the Danish tactic of employing small gunboats against the conventional Royal Navy....
   (1807–1814)
• Peninsular War
  Peninsular War
  
  The Peninsular War or Spanish War of Independence was a contest between First French Empire and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Kingdom of Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars....
   (1808–1814)
• Hundred Days
  Hundred Days
  
  The Hundred Days marked the period between Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII of France on 8 July 1815 ....
   (1815)
• First Kandian War
  Kandian Wars
  
  The term Kandian Wars refers generally to the period of warfare between British India colonial forces and the kingdom of Kandy in Ceylon, modern Sri Lanka, between 1796 and 1818....
   (1803–1804) - Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
• Second Anglo-Maratha War
  Second Anglo-Maratha War
  
  The Second Anglo-Maratha War was the second conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India....
   (1803–1805) - India
• Vellore Mutiny
  Vellore Mutiny
  
  The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. It predates even the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by half a century....
   (1806) - India
• Anglo-Dutch Java War
  Anglo-Dutch Java War
  
  The Anglo-Dutch Java War in 1810-1811 was a war between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands fought entirely on the Island of Java in colonial Indonesia....
   (1810–1811)
• War of 1812
  War of 1812
  
  The War of 1812, between the United States of America and the British Empire , was fought from 1812 to 1815.There were several immediate stated causes for the U.S....
   (1812–1815)
• Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816)
• Second Kandian War
  Kandian Wars
  
  The term Kandian Wars refers generally to the period of warfare between British India colonial forces and the kingdom of Kandy in Ceylon, modern Sri Lanka, between 1796 and 1818....
   (1815) - Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
• Third Anglo-Maratha War
  Third Anglo-Maratha War
  
  The Third Anglo-Maratha War was a final and decisive conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India, which left the Company in control of most of India....
   (1817–1818) - India
• First Anglo-Burmese War
  First Burmese War
  
  The First Anglo-Burmese War lasted from 1823 to 1826. In the United Kingdom it is called the First Burmese War whereas Burmese custom names both belligerents....
   (1823–1826)
• Upper Canada Rebellion
  Upper Canada Rebellion
  
  The Upper Canada Rebellion was, along with the Lower Canada Rebellion in Lower Canada, a rebellion against the British colonial government in 1837 and 1838....
   (1837)
• Lower Canada Rebellion
  Lower Canada Rebellion
  
  The Lower Canada Rebellion is the name given to the armed conflict between the rebels of Lower Canada and the United Kingdom colonial power of that province....
   (1837)
• First Anglo-Afghan War
  First Anglo-Afghan War
  
  The First Anglo?Afghan War lasted from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts during The Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Central Asia between Great Britain and Russia, and also marked one of the major losses of the British after the consolidation of India by the British East India Company....
   (1839–1842)
• Battle of Ghazni
  Battle of Ghazni
  
  The Battle of Ghazni took place in city of Ghazni in central Afghanistan on July 23, 1839 during the First Anglo-Afghan War....
  
• First Opium War
  First Opium War
  
  The First Opium War or the First Anglo-Chinese War was fought between the East India Company and the Qing Dynasty of China from 1839 to 1842 with the aim of forcing China to allow free trade, particularly in opium....
   (1839–1842) - United Kingdom v China
• First Anglo-Sikh War
  First Anglo-Sikh War
  
  The First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company between 1845 and 1846. It resulted in partial subjugation of the Sikh kingdom....
   (1845–1846) - India
• New Zealand Wars
  New Zealand land wars
  
  The New Zealand Wars, sometimes called the Land Wars and also once called the Maori Wars, were a series of armed conflicts that took place in New Zealand between 1845 and 1872....
   (1845–1872)
• Second Anglo-Sikh War
  Second Anglo-Sikh War
  
  The Second Anglo-Sikh War took place in 1848 and 1849, between the Sikh Empire and the British Empire. It resulted in the subjugation of the Sikh Empire, and the annexation of the Punjab region and what subsequently became the North-West Frontier Province by the East India Company....
   (1848–1849) - India
• Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852)
• Crimean War
  Crimean War
  
  The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Oriental War was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other....
   (1854–1856) - United Kingdom, France, Turkey, and Piedmont-Sardinia v Russia
• Second Opium War
  Second Opium War
  
  The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war of the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China from 1856-1860....
   (1856–1860) - United Kingdom and France v China
• Anglo-Persian War (1856–1857)
  Anglo-Persian War
  
  The Anglo-Persian War lasted between November 1, 1856 and April 4, 1857, and was fought between the United Kingdom and Persia . In the war, the British opposed an attempt by Persia to reacquire the city of Herat, which was nominally part of Afghanistan but which had been part of Persia under the Qajar dynasty....
   - United Kingdom and Persia
• Indian Rebellion
  Indian Rebellion of 1857
  
  The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British Honourable East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pr...
   (1857)
• Pig War
  Pig War
  
  The curved lines are as shown on maps of the time. The modern boundary is made of straight line segments and roughly follows the blue line.|partof=|place=Washington-British Columbia border...
   (1859) - United Kingdom v USA
• Anglo-Bhutanese War (1865)
• Second Anglo-Afghan War
  European influence in Afghanistan
  
  The European influence in Afghanistan refers to political, social, and sometimes imperialistic influence various European nations have had on this historical development of the territory today known as Afghanistan....
   (1878-1880)
• Anglo-Zulu War
  Anglo-Zulu War
  
  The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Empire. From complex beginnings, the war is notable for several particularly bloody battles, as well as for being a landmark in the timeline of colonialism in the region....
   (1879)
• First Boer War
  First Boer War
  
  The First Boer War also known as the First Anglo-Boer War or the Transvaal War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881....
   (1880–1881)
• Gun War
  Gun War
  
  The Gun War also known as the Basuto War was an 1880-1881 conflict in the United Kingdom territory of Basutoland in Southern Africa, fought between Cape Colony forces and rebellious Basotho Tribal chief over tribal rights....
   (1880–1881)
• Mahdist War
  Mahdist War
  
  The Mahdist War was a colonial war of the late 19th century. It was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese and the Egyptian and later United Kingdom forces....
   (1881–1899)
• Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885–1887)
• Anglo-Zanzibar War
  Anglo-Zanzibar War
  
  The Anglo-Zanzibar War was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted approximately 40 minutes and is the shortest war in history....
   (1896)
• Second Boer War
  Second Boer War
  
  The Second Boer War , commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War , the Anglo-Boer War and in Afrikaans as the Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog , was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902, between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics of the Orange Fre...
   (1899–1902)

20th Century

• Boxer Rebellion
  Boxer Rebellion
  
  The Boxer Rebellion, or more properly Boxer Uprising, was a violent anti-foreign, anti-Christian movement by the "Righteous Fists of Harmony,? Yihe tuan or Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists in China....
   (1900) - United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, USA v China
• Anglo-Aro war
  Anglo-Aro War
  
  Cause of the war The Aro Confederacy, whose powers extended across Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon, was crumbling in the late 19th century due to the European colonists....
   (1901-1902) - Nigeria
• World War I
  World War I
  
  World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
   (1914–1918) - United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Serbia, Italy, Russia, United States v Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey
• Easter Rising
  Easter Rising
  
  The Easter Rising was a rebellion staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicanism to win independence from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....
   (1916) - Ireland
• Russian Civil War
  Russian Civil War
  
  The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed and the Bolshevik party assumed power in Saint Petersburg....
   (1918–1922)
• Third Anglo-Afghan War
  European influence in Afghanistan
  
  The European influence in Afghanistan refers to political, social, and sometimes imperialistic influence various European nations have had on this historical development of the territory today known as Afghanistan....
   (1919)
• Irish War of Independence
  Irish War of Independence
  
  The Irish War of Independence from January 1919 to July 1921 was a guerrilla warfare mounted against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army ....
   (1919–1921)
• World War II
  World War II
  
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
   (1939–1945)
• The Pacific War
  Pacific War
  
  The Pacific War was the part of World War II?and preceding conflicts?that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, between July 7, 1937 and August 14, 1945....
   (1937–1945) United Kingdom, USA and China v Japan
• Anglo-Iraqi War
  Anglo-Iraqi War
  
  The Anglo-Iraqi War was a conflict between the United Kingdom and the nationalist government of Iraq during World War II. The conflict lasted from 2 May to 31 May 1941....
   (1941)
• Greek Civil War
  Greek Civil War
  
  The Greek Civil War , fought from 1946 to 1949 by the Governmental forces, receiving logistical support by the United Kingdom at first and later by the United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece , the military branch of the Communist Party of Greece , was the result of a highly polarized struggle between leftists and rightists which sta...
   (1941–1949)
• Malayan Emergency
  Malayan Emergency
  
  The Malayan Emergency refers to a guerrilla warfare for independence fought between Commonwealth armed forces and the Malayan Races Liberation Army, the military arm of the Malayan Communist Party, from 1948 to 1960; some have gone as far as to characterise it as a civil war....
   (1948–1960)
• Korean War
  Korean War
  
  The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korea and South Korea regimes, with major hostilities lasting from June 25, 1950 until the armistice signed on July 27, 1953....
   (1950–1953)
• Mau Mau Uprising
  Mau Mau Uprising
  
  The Mau Mau Uprising of 1952 to 1960 was an insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the United Kingdom Colonial rule. The core of the resistance was formed by members of the Kikuyu ethnic group, along with smaller numbers of Embu and Ameru....
   (1952–1960)
• Cyprus Emergency
  Modern history of Cyprus
  
  This article covers the modern history of Cyprus, from 1878 to the present....
   (1955–1959)
• Suez Crisis
  Suez Crisis
  
  The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, was a military attack on Egypt by United Kingdom, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October 1956....
   (1956)
• Brunei Revolt
  Brunei Revolt
  
  The Brunei Revolt broke out on December 8, 1962 and was led by Yassin Affandi and his armed rebels. The rebels began co-ordinated attacks on the oil town of Seria, targeting the Royal Dutch Shell oil installations and attacks on police stations and government facilities around the protectorate....
   (1962)
• Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation
  Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation
  
  The Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation was an intermittent battle over the future of the island of Borneo, between British-backed Malaysia and Indonesia in 1962?1966....
   (1962–1966)
• Northern Ireland Troubles (1969-2007)
• Cod War Confrontation
  Cod War
  
  The Cod Wars, also called the Iceland Cod Wars were a series of confrontations in the 1950s and 1970s between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights in the North Atlantic....
   (1975–1976)
• Falklands War
  Falklands War
  
  The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands....
   (1982)
• The First Gulf War
  Gulf War
  
  "Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
   (1990–1991)
• The Bosnian War
  Bosnian War
  
  The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, commonly known as the Bosnian War, was an international armed conflict that took place between March 1992 and November 1995....
   (1995–1996)
• The Kosovo War
  Kosovo War
  
  Kosovo War occurred after the Rambouillet Agreement failed in February 1999. The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts in Kosovo:...
   (1999)
• Iraqi no-fly zones
  Iraqi no-fly zones
  
  The Iraqi no-fly zones are two separate no-fly zones , and were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south....
    (1991-2003)
• Sierra Leone Civil War
  Operation Palliser
  
  Operation Palliser was a United Kingdom Armed forces operation in Sierra Leone in 2000 under the command of Brigadier David Richards ....
   (2000)

21st century

• The Afghanistan War
  War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
  
  The War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001 as the U.S. military operation Operation Enduring Freedom, was launched by the United States with the United Kingdom in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks....
   (2001–Present)
• Iraq War
  Iraq War
  
  The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing conflicts military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a Multinational force in Iraq now led by and composed almost entirely of troops from the United States and United King...
   and Iraqi insurgency
  Iraqi insurgency
  
  The Iraqi insurgency is composed of a diverse mix of militias, foreign fighters, all Iraqi units or mixtures using violent measures against the United States-led Multinational force in Iraq in Iraq and the post-2003 Iraqi government, or by propaganda or money supportive thereof....
   (2003–Present)

List of Civil Wars

1. Rebellion of 1088
   Rebellion of 1088
   
   The Rebellion of 1088 occurred after the death of William the Conqueror and concerned the division of lands in the Kingdom of England and the Duchy of Normandy between his two sons William Rufus and Robert Curthose....
    - in England
   England
   
   native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
    and Normandy
   Normandy
   
   Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is situated along the coast of France south of the English Channel between Brittany and Picardy and comprises territory in northern France and the Channel Islands....
   
2. The Anarchy
   The Anarchy
   
   The Anarchy or The Nineteen Year Winter refers to a period of history of England during the reign of the Normans King, Stephen of England, which was characterised by civil war and unsettled government....
    (1135–1154) - in England
   England
   
   native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
   
3. Revolt of 1173-1174
   Revolt of 1173-1174
   
   The Revolt of 1173–1174 was a rebellion against Henry II of England by three of his sons, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine and rebel supporters....
    - in England
   England
   
   native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
   , Normandy
   Normandy
   
   Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is situated along the coast of France south of the English Channel between Brittany and Picardy and comprises territory in northern France and the Channel Islands....
   , and Anjou
   Anjou
   
   Anjou is a former county , duchy and Provinces of France centred on the city of Angers in the lower Loire Valley of western France. It corresponds largely to the present-day d?partement in France of Maine-et-Loire....
   
4. First Barons' War
   First Barons' War
   
   The First Barons' War was a combination of :* a civil war in the Kingdom of England, between :**the forces of a number of rebellious barons, led by Robert Fitzwalter, and...
    (1215–1217) - in England
   England
   
   native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
   
5. Second Barons' War
   Second Barons' War
   
   The Second Barons' War was a civil war in England between the forces of a number of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, against the Royalist forces led by Prince Edward ....
    (1264–1267) - in England
   England
   
   native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
   
6. Welsh Uprising (1282) - in England
   England
   
   native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
    and Wales
   Wales
   
   native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
   
7. Wars of the Roses
   Wars of the Roses
   
   The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars fought in England between supporters of the Houses of House of Lancaster and House of York....
    (1455–1485) - in England
   England
   
   native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
    and Wales
   Wales
   
   native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
   ; Richard III
   Richard III of England
   
   Richard III was List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England of Kingdom of England from 1483 until his death. He was the last king from the House of York, and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the culmination of the Wars of the Roses and the end of the Plantagenet dynasty....
    was the last English king to die in combat
8. Wars of the Three Kingdoms
   Wars of the Three Kingdoms
   
   The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 after these three countries had come under the "Personal Rule" of the same monarch....
    (1639–1651) - in England
   England
   
   native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
   , Wales
   Wales
   
   native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
   , Scotland
   Scotland
   
   conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
    and Ireland
   Ireland
   
   Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
   
   • First Bishops' War (1639)
   • Second Bishops' War (1640)
   • Irish Rebellion
     Irish Rebellion of 1641
     
     The Irish Rebellion of 1641 began as an attempted coup d'?tat by Irish Roman Catholic Church gentry, but developed into inter communal violence between native Irish people and England and Scotland Protestant settlers, starting a conflict known as the Irish Confederate Wars....
      (1641-42)
   • First English Civil War
     First English Civil War
     
     The First English Civil War commenced the series of three wars known as the English Civil War . "The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Roundhead and Cavaliers from 1642 until 1651, and includes the Second English Civil War and the Third English Civil War ....
      (1642–1646)
   • The Confederate’s War
     Irish Confederate Wars
     
     This article is concerned with the military history of Ireland from 1641-53. For the political context of this conflict, see Confederate Ireland....
      (1642-1648)
   • Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644–1647)
   • Second English Civil War
     Second English Civil War
     
     The Second English Civil War was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliament of England and Cavaliers from 1642 until 1652 and include the First English Civil War and the Third English Civil War ....
      (1648)
   • Third English Civil War
     Third English Civil War
     
     The Third English Civil War was the last of the English Civil War , a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Roundheads and Cavaliers....
      (1650–1651)
   • Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
     Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
     
     The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland refers to the re-conquest of Ireland by the forces of the English Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....
      (1649)
9. Monmouth Rebellion
   Monmouth Rebellion
   
   The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, was an attempt to overthrow James II of England, who had become King of England at the death of his elder brother Charles II of England on 6 February 1685....
    (1685) - in England
   England
   
   native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
   
10. Jacobite Rebellions
    Jacobitism
    
    Jacobitism was the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the House of Stuart kings to the thrones of Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland....
     (1689-91; 1715-16; 1719; 1745-46) - in England
    England
    
    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
    , Scotland
    Scotland
    
    conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
     and Ireland
    Ireland
    
    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
    
    • Williamite war in Ireland
      Williamite war in Ireland
      
      The Williamite War in Ireland, also known as the Jacobite War in Ireland and in Ireland as Cogadh an D? R? or The War of the Two Kings, was the opening conflict following the deposition of King James II of England in 1688 when he attempted to regain the throne of his Three Kingdoms from his daughter Mary II of England who repl...
       (1688–1691)
    • Battle of the Boyne
      Battle of the Boyne
      
      The Battle of the Boyne was fought in 1690 between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish and Irish thrones - the Catholic James II of England and the Protestant William III of England, who had Glorious revolution....
       (1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
    • Clifton Moor, near Penrith (1745) - last land battle on English
      England
      
      native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
       soil
    • Battle of Culloden
      Battle of Culloden
      
      The Battle of Culloden was the final clash between the French-supported Jacobitism and the House of Hanover British Government in the 1745 Jacobite Rising#The 'Forty-Five'....
       (1746) - last land battle in Great Britain
      Great Britain
      
      Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
      
11. American Revolutionary War
    American Revolutionary War
    
    The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
     (1775–1783) - Effectively Civil War with Loyalists fighting Revolutionaries

List of fortifications in the British Isles

Roman & ancient

• Black Pig's Dyke
  Black Pig's Dyke
  
  The "Black Pig's Dyke" , also known as The Dane's Cast, was a series of numerous defensive, discontinuous segments of ditches, built between the old rival Irish provinces of Ulster and Connacht in the 1st century AD ....
   AD 0–100
• Hadrian's Wall
  Hadrian's Wall
  
  Hadrian's Wall is a Rock and Sod fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the middle of three such fortifications built across Great Britain, the first being from the River Clyde to the River Forth under Agricola and the last the Ant...
   AD 122
• Antonine Wall
  Antonine Wall
  
  The Antonine Wall also known as the Severan Wall, is a rock and sod fortification, built by the Roman Empire across what is now the central belt of Scotland and is also known as the Clyde-Forth frontier line....
   AD 142

Medieval

• Castles in the UK
• Castles in England
  Castles in England
  
  This page lists castles in England.BedfordshireBerkshireBristolBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCheshire...
  
• Castles in Northern Ireland
  Castles in Northern Ireland
  
  The following is a partial list of Castles in Northern Ireland:...
  
• Castles in Scotland
  Castles in Scotland
  
  This list of castles in Scotland is a link page for any castle in Scotland.The first castles were built in Scotland in the 11th and 12th centuries, with the introduction of Normans influence....
  
• Castles in Wales
  Castles in Wales
  
  Castles in Wales is a link page for any castle in Wales, sometimes said to be "the castle capital of the world". Wales has about 400 castles, of which over 100 are still standing, either as ruins or as restored buildings....
  
• Castles in Britain

1600s

• The Royal Citadel
  Royal Citadel, Plymouth
  
  The Royal Citadel of Plymouth was built in the late 1660s to the design of Sir Bernard de Gomme, overlooking the Plymouth Sound, on the site of the earlier Plymouth Fort that had been built in the time of Sir Francis Drake....
  
• Charlemont Fort
  Charlemont Fort
  
  Charlemont Fort was a garrison built in Charlemont, County Armagh in 1602 by Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire. It was destroyed in 1920 by fire and the only building remaining today is the gatehouse....
   in Ulster

Georgian & Victorian

• Fort Bovisand
  Fort Bovisand
  
  Fort Bovisand is a fort in Devon, England near the beach of Bovisand. It was built on the mainland to defend the entrance of Plymouth Sound, at the narrows opposite the east end of Plymouth Breakwater....
  
• Crownhill Fort
  Crownhill Fort
  
  Crownhill Fort is a Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom fort built in the 1860s in Crownhill as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth....
  
• Martello tower
  Martello tower
  
  Martello towers are small defensive Fortification built in several countries of the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the Napoleonic Wars onwards....
  s
• Picklecombe Fort
  Picklecombe Fort
  
  Fort Picklecombe stands on the extreme south eastern coast of Cornwall, a couple of miles west of the city of Plymouth. The fort has been a residential complex since the early 1970s but has a history dating back 150 years....
  
• Fort George
  Fort George, Highland
  
  Fort George, Ardersier, Highland , Scotland, is a large 18th century fortress near Inverness with perhaps the mightiest artillery fortifications in Europe....
  
• Eastbourne Redoubt
  Eastbourne Redoubt
  
  Eastbourne Redoubt is a fort on what is now Royal Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England....
  

World War II Stop Lines

• Avon Stop Line
• Colchester Stop Line
• Coquet Stop Line
  Coquet Stop Line
  
  The Coquet Stop Line, which ran from Amble in Northumberland up the valley of the River Coquet, formed part of the defences constructed to meet the threat of a Germany invasion during World War II....
  
• GHQ Line
  GHQ Line
  
  The GHQ Line was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected Nazi Germany invasion.The British Army had abandoned most of its equipment in France after the Operation Dynamo evacuation....
  
• Outer London Defence Ring
  Outer London Defence Ring
  
  The Outer London Defence Ring was a defensive ring built around London during the early part of the Second World War. It was intended as a defence against a German invasion, and would have served as the last line of defence against attacking armoured forces....
  
• Ringwood West Line
  Ringwood West Line
  
  The Ringwood West Line was a World War II defensive line in England, running south from the GHQ Line near Frome to the coast.The line followed natural and manmade barriers such as rivers and canals, and was strengthened by pillboxes, gun emplacements and anti tank obstacles....
  
• Salisbury West Stop Line
• Taunton Stop Line
  Taunton Stop Line
  
  The Taunton Stop Line was a World War II defensive line in southwest England. It was designed "to stop an enemy's advance from the west and in particular a rapid advance supported by armoured fighting vehicles which may have broken through the forward defences."...
  

List of British military institutions

• Royal Navy
  Royal Navy
  
  The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
  
• Royal Marines
  Royal Marines
  
  The Royal Marines are the marine and amphibious warfare infantry of the United Kingdom and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service....
  
• Royal Fleet Auxiliary
  Royal Fleet Auxiliary
  
  The Royal Fleet Auxiliary is a component of the Naval Service that keeps the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom running around the world. Its main function is to supply the Royal Navy with fuel and supplies....
  
• British Army
  British Army
  
  The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
  
• New Model Army
  New Model Army
  
  The New Model Army was formed in 1645 by the roundhead in the English Civil War. It differed from other armies in the same conflict in that it was intended as an army liable for service anywhere in the country, rather than being tied to a single area or garrison....
   (1645)
• Territorial Army
  Territorial Army
  
  The Territorial Army is the volunteer Military reserve force of the British Army, the army of the United Kingdom, and composed mostly of part-time soldiers paid at a similar rate, while engaged on military activities, as their Regular equivalents....
   (1907)
• Kitchener's Army
  Kitchener's Army
  
  The New Army, often referred to as Kitchener's Army or, disparagingly, Kitchener's Mob , was an all-volunteer army formed in the United Kingdom following the outbreak of hostilities in World War I....
   (1914)
• Auxiliary Units
  Auxiliary Units
  
  The Auxiliary Units were specially trained highly secret units created with the aim of resisting the expected Operation Sealion by Nazi Germany during World War II....
   (1940s)
• Home Guard
  British Home Guard
  
  The Home Guard was a defence organisation active in the United Kingdom during World War II. Operational from 1940 until 1944, the Home Guard ? comprising 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, usually owing to age ? acted as a secondary defence force, in case of invasion by the forces of Nazi Germany....
   (1940s)
• Royal Air Force
  Royal Air Force
  
  The Royal Air Force is the United Kingdom's air force, the oldest independent air force in the world. Formed on 1 April 1918, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history ever since, playing a large part in World War II and in more recent conflicts....
  
• Royal Auxiliary Air Force
  Royal Auxiliary Air Force
  
  The Royal Auxiliary Air Force is the volunteer active duty reserve element of the Royal Air Force, providing a primary reinforcement capability for the regular service....
   (1924)
• Royal Observer Corps
  Royal Observer Corps
  
  The Royal Observer Corps was a civil defence organisation operating in the United Kingdom between 29 October 1925 and 31 December 1995, when the Corps' civilian volunteers were stood down....
   (1925 - 1995)
• Royal Ordnance Factory
  Royal Ordnance Factory
  
  Royal Ordnance Factories was the collective name of the United Kingdom government's munitions factories in and after World War II. Until privatisation in 1987 they were the responsibility of the Ministry of Supply and later the Ministry of Defence ....
  

• National Service
  National service
  
  National service is a common name for mandatory or voluntary government service programs . National service was common in the 20th century, and many young people spent one or more years in such programs....
   (1949 - 1960)
• Joint Services School for Linguists
  Joint Services School for Linguists
  
  The Joint Services School for Linguists was founded in 1951 by the Military of the United Kingdom to provide language training, principally in Russian language, and largely to selected conscripts undergoing National Service....
  

List of British military alliances

Scottish military alliances

• Auld Alliance
  Auld Alliance
  
  The Auld Alliance refers to a series of treaties, offensive and defensive in nature, between Scotland and France aimed specifically against England....
   (1295-1560)

English military alliances

• Anglo-Portuguese alliance
  Anglo-Portuguese Alliance
  
  The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England and Portugal is the oldest Military alliance in the world which is still in force. It was signed in 1373....
   (1386-)

• Holy League (1510 to 1513)

• Triple Alliance (1668)

• Grand Alliance
  Grand Alliance
  
  The Grand Alliance was a European coalition, consisting of Austria, Bavaria, Brandenburg, England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Electoral Palatinate of the Rhine, Portugal, Savoy, Saxony, Spain, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic....
   (1689 - 1697)

British military alliances

• Triple Alliance (1717)
  Triple Alliance (1717)
  
  The Triple Alliance was a treaty between the Dutch Republic, France and Kingdom of Great Britain, against Spain, attempting to maintain the agreement of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht ....
  

• Triple Alliance (1788)
  Triple Alliance (1788)
  
  The Triple Alliance of 1788 was an alliance between United Kingdom of Great Britain, Prussia and the Dutch Republic. It was formed to prevent France from becoming a superpower in Europe by taking over the Dutch colonies, fleet and wharfs....
  

• Anglo-Japanese Alliance
  Anglo-Japanese Alliance
  
  The first was signed in London at what is now the , on January 30 1902, by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne and Hayashi Tadasu . A diplomatic milestone for its ending of Britain's splendid isolation, the alliance was renewed and extended in scope twice, in 1905 and 1911, before its demise in 1921....
   (1902-1923)

• Entente Cordiale
  Entente Cordiale
  
  The Entente cordiale is a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and French Third Republic....
   (1904-)

• Triple Entente
  Triple Entente
  
  File:Map Europe alliances 1914-en.svgThe Triple Entente was the name given to the loose alignment of the British Empire, French Third Republic, and Russian Empire after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907....
   (1908)

• NATO
  NATO
  
  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949....
   (1949-)
• Western European Union
  Western European Union
  
  The Western European Union is a partially dormant European defence and security organisation, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels 1948 of 1948 with the accession of West Germany and Italy in 1954....
   (1954-)
• Five Power Defence Arrangement (1971-)

See also

• Pax Britannica
  Pax Britannica
  
  Pax Britannica was the List of wars 1800?1899 in Europe when the British Empire controlled most of the key naval trade routes and enjoyed Royal Navy#1500.E2.80.931707....
  
• History of British Isles
• History of the United Kingdom
  History of the United Kingdom
  
  The history of the United Kingdom as a unified sovereign state begins with the political union between the kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707....
  
• United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction
  United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction
  
  The United Kingdom is one of the five official nuclear weapon states under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has an independent nuclear deterrent....
  
• History of the British Army
  History of the British Army
  
  The history of the British Army spans over three and a half centuries and numerous List of conflicts in Europe wars, colonial wars and world wars....
  
• History of the Royal Navy
  History of the Royal Navy
  
  The Royal Navy was formally created as the national naval force of England in 1660, following the Restoration of King Charles II to the throne. It became the naval force of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Union between England and Scotland in 1707 which merged the English Navy with the Royal Scots Navy, though the two began operating togeth...
  
• List of battles (geographic)
  List of battles (geographic)
  
  This list of battles is organized geographically, by country in its present territory. For other lists of battles, see List of battles....
  
• List of wars
  List of wars
  
  This is a listing of lists of wars, sorted by country, date, region, and type of conflict.This list is incomplete and, quite possibly, will never be completed....
  
• British military rank insignia
• United Kingdom casualties of war
  United Kingdom casualties of war
  
  British war dead from conflicts in which the United Kingdom was involved are tabulated below....