British military history

British military history is a long and varied topic, extending from the prehistoric and ancient historic period, through the Roman invasions of Julius Cæsar and Claudius and subsequent Roman occupation; warfare in the Mediaeval period, including the invasions of the Saxons and the Vikings in the Early Middle Ages, the Norman Conquest, and wars against France; through the Early Modern period, wars against Spain and France, and the English Civil War, and the beginnings of the colonial British Empire in India, the USA and Canada; and into the Modern period with the wars of Marlborough and against Napoleon, the Crimean War and into the 20th century with the Boer War, World War I and World War II, the Cold War the Korean War; and, most recently, Northern Ireland, the Falklands War and military operations in the Balkans and the Middle East.

List of British military encounters

Prehistoric and ancient period

• Roman conquest of Britain (43)

Mediæval period

• 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 of England (1066)
• Rebellion of 1088
• Revolt of 1173-1174
• Third Crusade (1189)
• Welsh Uprising (1211)
• Battle of Bouvines (1214)
• First Barons' War (1215–1217)
• Second Barons' War (1264–1267)
• Welsh Uprising (1282)
• The First War of Scottish Independence (1296–1306)
• (1332–1357)
• Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453)
• Wars of the Roses (1455–1485)

Early Modern period

• Italian Wars (1494 – 1559)
• Cornish Rebellion (1497)
• Loss of Calais (1558)
• Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604)
• Nine Years War (1594–1603)
• Eighty Years' War (1598–1648)
• First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1613)
• Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1622)
• Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651)
• First Bishops' War (1639)
• Second Bishops' War (1640)
• Irish Rebellion (1641)
• First English Civil War (1642–1646)
• The Confederate?s War (1642-1648)
• Scottish Civil War (1644–1647)
• Second English Civil War (1648–1649)
• Third English Civil War (1649–1651)
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
• Third Anglo-Powhatan War (1644)
• 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)
• Virginia Rebellion (1676)
• Monmouth Rebellion (1685)
• Nine Years War (1688–1697)
• King William's War (1688–1697)
• Jacobite Rebellions (1689–1746)
• Williamite war in Ireland (1688–1691)
• War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713)
• Queen Anne's War (1702–1713)
• War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720)
• War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1742)
• War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)
• King George's War (1740–1748)
• Seven Years' War ((1756–1763)
• French and Indian War (1756–1763)
• Anglo-Cherokee War (1759–1763)
• First Anglo-Mysore War (1766–1769)

Modern Period

• American War of Independence (1775–1783)
• First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782)
• Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784)
• Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784)
• Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–1792)
• French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1802)
• Irish Rebellion (1798)
• Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815)
• Anglo-Turkish War (1807–1809)
• Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)
• Gunboat War (1807–1814)
• Peninsular War (1808–1814)
• First Kandian War (1803–1804)
• Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805)
• Vellore Mutiny (1806)
• Anglo-Dutch Java War (1810–1811)
• British-American War (1812)
• Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816)
• Second Kandian War (1815)
• Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818)
• Peterloo Massacre (1819)
• First Anglo-Burmese War (1823–1826)
• War of the Two Brothers (1828–1834)
• First Carlist War (1833–1839)
• Upper Canada Rebellion (1837)
• Lower Canada Rebellion (1837)
• First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)
• First Opium War (1839–1842)
• First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–1846)
• New Zealand Wars (1845–1872)
• Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849)
• Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852)
• Crimean War (1854–1856)
• Indian Rebellion (1857)
• Second Opium War (1856–1860)
• Anglo-Bhutanese War (1865)
• Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880)
• Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
• First Boer War (1880–1881)
• Gun War (1880–1881)
• Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885–1887)
• Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896)
• Second Boer War (1899–1902)

20th century

• Boxer Rebellion (1900)
• World War I (1914–1918)
• Easter Rising (1916)
• Russian Civil War (1918–1922)
• Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
• Anglo-Irish War (1919–1921)
• Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923)
• The Pacific War (1937–1945)
• World War II (1939–1945)
• Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)
• 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)
• Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation (1962–1966)
• Aden Emergency (1963–1967)
• Northern Ireland Troubles (1969-mid 1990s)
• Cod War Confrontation (1975–1976)
• Falklands War (1982)
• The First Gulf War (1990–1991)
• The Bosnian War (1995–1996)
• The Kosovo War (1999)

21st century

• Sierra Leone Civil War (2000)
• The Afghanistan War (2001–2002)
• Iraq War (2003–2004)
• Iraqi insurgency (2003–Present)