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British military history

History of Britain

Chronological

Ancient Britain

Roman Britain

Mediæval Britain

Early Modern Britain

Modern Britain

Geographic

History of England

History of Ireland

History of Scotland

History of Wales

Topical

Economic history

British Empire

Military history

Social history

Constitutional history

For details of British military history see:

Institutions

• Royal Navy
• British Army
  • New Model Army (1645)
  • Territorial Army (1907)
  • Kitchener's Army (1914)
  • Auxiliary Units (1940s)
  • Home Guard (1940s)
• Royal Air Force
• Royal Ordnance

• National Service (1949 - 1960)

Alliances

Scottish

• Auld Alliance (1165-1560)

English

• Anglo-Portuguese alliance (1386-)
• Holy League (1510 to 1513)
• Triple Alliance (1668)
• Grand Alliance (1689 - ?)

British

• Anglo-Portuguese alliance (1704-)
• Triple Alliance (1717)
• Triple Alliance (1788)
• Entente Cordiale (1904)
• Triple Entente (1908)
• NATO (1949-)
• Western European Union (1954-)
• Five Power Defence Arrangement (1971-)

Military encounters

• Roman Invasion (43)
  • Manduessedum (61)
  • Battle of Mons Graupius (83)
• Viking invasions (793 - 1066)
  • Raid on Lindisfarne (793)
  • Campaign of Alfred the Great (871 - 899)
    • Battle of Edington (878)
  • Battle of Cannington (878)
  • Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
• Norman Conquest (1066)
  • Battle of Hastings (1066) - last invasion of the British Isles by a foreign force
• Third Crusade (1189)
• Welsh Uprising of 1211
• Battle of Bouvines (1214) - loss of Normandy
• First Barons' War (1215-1217)
• Second Barons' War (1264-1267)
• Welsh Uprising of 1282
• Wars of Scottish Independence (1296 - 1333)
• Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453)
  • Battle of Agincourt (1415)
• Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1485)
  • Battle of Bosworth Field (1485) - last British king to die in combat
• Italian Wars (1494 – 1559)
• Loss of Calais (1558) - then England's last continental possession
• Eighty Years' War (1598 - 1648)
  • Spanish Armada (1588)
• Bishops' Wars (1639 - 1640)
• British Civil War (1642 - 1649)
• First Anglo-Dutch War (1652 - 1654)
• Anglo-Spanish War (1654 - 1660)
• Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665 - 1667)
• War of Devolution (1667 - 1668)
• Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672 - 1674)
• King Philip's War (1675 - 1676)
• Monmouth Rebellion (1685)
  • Battle of Sedgemoor (1685) - second to last battle on English soil
• War of the Grand Alliance (or King William's War) (1688 - 1697)
• Jacobite Rebellions (1689 - 1746)
  • Battle of Preston (1715) - last battle on English soil
  • Battle of Culloden (1746) - last battle on the British mainland
• Battle of the Boyne (1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
• War of the Spanish Succession (1702 - 1713)
  • Queen Anne's War (1702 - 1713)
• War of Jenkins' Ear (1739 - 1742)
• War of the Austrian Succession (1740 - 1748)
• Seven Years' War (1756-1763) - the first "world war"
• Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784)
• American War of Independence (1775 to 1783)
• Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815)
  • Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
  • Peninsular War (1808 - 1814)
• British-American War (1812)
• First Anglo-Afghan War (1839 - 1842)
• First Opium War (1839 - 1842)
• Crimean War (1854 - 1856)
  • Charge of the Light Brigade
• Second Opium War (or The Arrow War) (1856 - 1860)
• Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
• Boer War ( 1880-1881 and 1899-1902)
  • Siege of Mafeking (1899-1900)
• Anglo-Irish War (1919 - 1921)
• World War I (1914 - 1918)
• World War II (1939 - 1945)
  • British military history of World War II
    • British Commandos
    • Bletchley Park
• Cold War (1945 - 1991)
• Malayan Emergency (1948 - 1960)
• Korean War (1950 - 1953)
• Mau Mau Uprising (1952 - 1960)
• Cyprus Emergency (1955 - 1959)
• Suez Crisis (1956)
• Brunei Uprising (1962)
• Konfrontasi (1962-1966)
• Aden Emergency (1963 - 1967)
• Icelandic Cod War (1975 - 1976)
• Falklands War (1982)
• Gulf War (1990 - 1991)
• Bosnian War (IFOR) (1995-1996)
• Kosovo War (1999)
• Sierra Leone (2000)
• 2001 Afghanistan War (2001-2002)
• 2003 invasion of Iraq (2003)

Fortifications

Roman & Ancient

• Hadrian's Wall AD 122
• Antonine Wall AD 142

Medieval

• Castles in the UK
  • List of Castles in England
  • List of Castles in Northern Ireland
  • List of Castles in Scotland
  • List of Castles in Wales

Georgian & Victorian

• Martello towers

World War II Stop Lines

• Avon Stop Line
• Colchester Stop Line
• GHQ Line
• Outer London Defence Ring
• Ringwood West Line
• Salisbury West Stop Line
• Taunton Stop Line

See also

• Pax Britannica

• History of Britain
  • History of the United Kingdom
  • British Empire
• UK topics
  • Military of the United Kingdom
  • The United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction

• List of battles (geographic)
• List of wars

• British military rank insignia