British military history

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Table of contents

1 Institutions 2 Alliances 2.1 Scottish 2.2 English 2.3 British 3 Military encounters 4 Fortifications 4.4 Roman & Ancient 4.5 Medieval 4.6 Georgian & Victorian 4.7 World War II Stop Lines 5 See also

Institutions

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

• National Service (1949 - 1960)

• Auld Alliance (1165-1560)

• Anglo-Portuguese alliance (1386-)
• Triple Alliance (1668)
• Grand Alliance (1689 - ?)

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

• Roman Invasion (43)
  • Manduessedum (61)
  • Battle of Mons Graupius (83)
• Viking invasions (793 - 1066)
  • Raid on Lindisfarne (793)
  • Battle of Edington (878)
  • Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
• Norman Conquest (1066)
  • Battle of Hastings - Last invasion of the British Isles by a foreign force (1066)
• Third Crusade (1189)
• 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 - last British king to die in combat (1485)
• Italian Wars (1494 – 1559)
• 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
• 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)

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

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

• Pax Britannica

• History of Britain
  • History of the United Kingdom
• British Empire
• UK topics

• List of battles (geographic)
• List of wars

• British military rank insignia