List of wars involving the United Kingdom
{{Short description|Wars involving the United Kingdom}}
This is a list of conflicts involving the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its predecessor states (the Kingdom of Great Britain (and Ireland)). Notable militarised interstate disputes are included. For a list of wars before the Acts of Union 1707 merging the Kingdom of England and Scotland, please see List of wars involving England & List of wars involving Scotland. For a list of wars involving the predecessors of both states and a broader list of wars fought on the Island of Great Britain, see the list of wars in Great Britain.
Historically, the United Kingdom relied most heavily on the Royal Navy and maintained relatively small land forces. Most of the episodes listed here deal with insurgencies and revolts in the various colonies of the British Empire.
During its history, the United Kingdom's forces (or forces with a British mandate) have invaded, had some control over or fought conflicts in 171 of the world's 193 countries that are currently UN member states, or nine out of ten of all countries.{{cite book |author=Laycock, S. |title=All the Countries We've Ever Invaded – And the Few We Never Got Round To |publisher=The History Press |date=2012|id={{ASIN|0752479695|country=uk}} }}
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Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801)
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The Great Northern War (1700–1721) | {{Flagicon|Sweden|1562}} Swedish Empire {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} {{flag|United Provinces}} 17px Brunswick-Lüneburg |{{Flagdeco|Russian Empire}} Tsardom of Russia {{Flagicon|Denmark}} Denmark–Norway {{flag|Electorate of Saxony}} {{flagicon image|Chorągiew_królewska_króla_Zygmunta_III_Wazy.svg|border=|size=25px}} Poland–Lithuania {{flag|Prussia|1701}} {{Flagicon|Hanover|1692}} Hanover |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive for Great Britain
Russian–allied victory:
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The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) including | {{flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} Austria {{flag|Dutch Republic}} {{flagcountry|Duchy of Savoy}} {{Flag|England}} (Until 1707) {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} (After 1707) {{flag|Prussia|1701}} {{flagicon|Portugal|1707}} Portugal | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}} {{flagicon|Spain|1701}} Spain {{flagicon|Bavaria}} Bavaria |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Post-Spanish Succession Caribbean piracy (1715–1726) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | 23px Anglo-American-Caribbean privateers |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory {{Collapsible list | bullets = yes | title = Details:|Piracy outlawed by Treaty of Utrecht|Anti-Caribbean Piracy campaign by Royal Navy|Disestablishment of the Republic of Pirates in 1718|Defeat of Edward Teach in 1718|Defeat of Calico Jack in 1720|Defeat of Black Bart in 1722|Defeat of Edward Low in 1724|Most outlawed Caribbean privateers captured or killed by 1726, marking the end of the Golden Age of Piracy }} |
Civil war: (1715–1716) including | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | {{flagicon image|Jacobite Standard 1715.svg}} Jacobites |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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The War of the Quadruple Alliance
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| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}} {{flag|Dutch Republic}} | {{flagicon|Spain|1701}} Spain |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory:
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Dummer's War (1721–1725) |File:New England combo flag.svg New England Colonies |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748) Location: New Granada, Caribbean, Florida, |{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | {{flagicon|Spain|1701}} Spain
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The War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) including | {{flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} Austria {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} {{flagicon|Hanover|1692}} Hanover {{flag|Dutch Republic}} {{flagcountry|Electorate of Saxony}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Sardinia}} {{flagcountry|Russian Empire}} {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}} {{flag|Prussia|1701}} {{flagicon|Spain|1701}} Spain
{{flagicon|Bavaria}} Bavaria {{flagcountry|Electorate of Saxony}} {{flagicon|Two Sicilies}} Naples and Sicily {{flagcountry|Republic of Genoa}} {{flagicon|Sweden|1562}} Sweden {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} French East India Company |style="Background:#BBF"|French–allied victory in Europe but British victory outside of Europe |
Civil War: Jacobite rising of 1745 | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | {{flagicon image|Jacobite Standard (1745).svg}} Jacobites |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
The Second Carnatic War (1749–1754) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company | {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} French East India Company |style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory
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First Polygar War (1755){{Cite book |last=Tyagi |first=Vidya Prakash |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Martial_races_of_undivided_India/vRwS6FmS2g0C?hl=pl&gbpv=1&dq=First+Polygar+War&pg=PA272&printsec=frontcover |title=Martial races of undivided India |date=2009 |publisher=Gyan Publishing House |isbn=978-81-7835-775-1 |page=272 |language=en}} |{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company |Polygars |style="background:#F88"|Polygar victory |
Seven Years' War (1756–1763) including |{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}
{{flag|Prussia|1750}} {{flagicon|Hanover|1692}} Hanover {{flagicon image|Flag Portugal (1750).svg}} Portugal {{flagicon image|Flagge Herzogtum Braunschweig.svg}} Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel {{flagicon|Hesse}} Hesse-Kassel {{flagicon image|Flagge Fürstentum Schaumburg-Lippe.svg}} Schaumburg-Lippe Cherokee Nation (before 1758) Lenape (from 1758) Wyandot of Ohio Country (British supported faction) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}}
{{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} {{flag|Russian Empire}} {{flag|Sweden}} {{flagicon|Spain|1701}} Spain
{{flagcountry|Electorate of Saxony}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Sardinia}} Mughal Empire Lenape (until 1758) Wyandot of Fort Detroit (French supported faction) |style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory
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Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–1761) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | Cherokee |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Tacky's War (1760–1761) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} |style="background:#AF9"|British–allied victory
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Bengal War (1763–1765) |{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766) |{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} |Native American Coalition:
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First Anglo-Mysore War (1766–1769) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company {{flag|Maratha Empire}} {{flagicon image|Asafia flag of Hyderabad State.svg}} Hyderabad State | {{flagicon image|Flag of Mysore.svg}} Kingdom of Mysore |style="background:#F88"|Mysorean victory
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First Rohilla War (1773–1774) | 23px Oudh State | {{flagicon image|Flag of the Rampur State.svg}} Kingdom of Rohilkhand | style="Background:#AF9" |British–allied victory |
First Anglo-Maratha War (1774–1783) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company | {{flag|Maratha Empire}} |style="background:#F88"|Maratha victory
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* American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} Cherokee {{flagicon image|Flag of Hanover (1692).svg}} Hanover | {{flagu|United States|1777}} {{flagicon|Spain|1748}} Spain {{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Vermont_Republic.svg}} Vermont Republic |style="background:#F88"|American–allied victory
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Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1783) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | {{flagcountry|Dutch Republic}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory {{Collapsible list |bullets = yes |title = Treaty of Paris{{citation|last=Edler|first=F. |title=The Dutch Republic and The American Revolution|orig-year=1911|year=2001|publisher=University Press of the Pacific|location=Honolulu, Hawaii|pages=88, 181–189|isbn=0-89875-269-8 }} | Dutch Republic cedes territory in India, Nagapatnam, to Great Britain | The Dutch Republic did not enter into a formal alliance with the rebelling American colonies and their allies. | Weakening of the Dutch colonial empire, while Great Britain's colonial power increased. }} |
Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company {{flag|Maratha Empire}} {{flagicon image|Asafia flag of Hyderabad State.svg}} Hyderabad State | {{flagicon image|Flag of Mysore.svg}} Kingdom of Mysore {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}} |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome |
Revolt in Bihar (1781) |{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company |Zamindars and chiefs |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–1792) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company {{flag|Maratha Empire}} {{flagicon image|Asafia flag of Hyderabad State.svg}} Hyderabad State {{flagicon image|Former Travancore flag-Martanda Varma.png}} Travancore | {{flagicon image|Flag of Mysore.svg}} Kingdom of Mysore |style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory
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Ibn Ufaisan's invasion (1792){{Cite book |last=Assiri |first=Abdul-Reda |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Kuwait_s_Foreign_Policy/03akDwAAQBAJ?hl=pl&gbpv=1&dq=Invasion+of+Kuwait+1793&pg=PP21&printsec=frontcover |title=Kuwait's Foreign Policy: City-state In World Politics |date=2019-04-10 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-71348-4 |language=en |quote=The zealot Wahhabi order tried in 1792 and 1793 to attack Kuwait, but was repulsed by the combined forces of the British commercial office, East India Company, and the ruler.}}
|File:Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg Kuwait |{{flagicon image|Flag of the 1st and 2nd Saudi State.svg}} Emirate of Diriyah |
Ibn Ufaisan's Invasion (1793){{Cite book |last=Bonacina |first=Giovanni |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Wahhabis_seen_through_European_Eyes/hoG9BwAAQBAJ?hl=pl&gbpv=1&dq=Invasion+of+Kuwait+1793&pg=PA86&printsec=frontcover |title=The Wahhabis seen through European Eyes (1772-1830): Deists and Puritans of Islam |date=2015-03-31 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-29328-1 |page=86 |language=en}} | File:Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg Kuwait | {{flagicon image|Flag of the 1st and 2nd Saudi State.svg}} Emirate of Diriyah | style="background:#AF9" | British–allied victory{{Cite book |last=Loirmer |first=J. G. |url=https://archive.org/details/gazetteer-of-the-arabian-gulf-oman-and-central-arabia-vol-i-historical-part-1-b-by-j.-g.-lorimer/page/1005/mode/1up?q=1793 |title=Gazetteer Of The Arabian Gulf, Oman, And Central Arabia, Vol I, Historical, Part 1 B |year=1857 |page=1005}}
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War of the First Coalition (1793–1797) | {{flagicon|Dutch Republic}} Dutch Republic
{{flagicon|Papal States|old}} Papal States (until 1797)Left the war after signing the Treaty of Tolentino with France. File:Civil Ensign of Switzerland.svg Switzerland | {{flagicon|Kingdom of the French}} Kingdom of France (until 1792) French satellites:Including the Polish Legions formed in French-allied Italy in 1797, following the abolition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Third Partition in 1795.
|style="Background:#F88"|French victory
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Second Rohilla War (1794) | 23px Oudh State | {{flagicon image|Flag of the Rampur State.svg}} Rampur State |style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory |
Fédon's Rebellion (1795–1796) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | Grenadan revolutionaries |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Second Maroon War (1795–1796) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | style="background:#AF9" | British victory {{Collapsible list | bullets = yes | title = Details|Treaty signed established that the Maroons would beg on their knees for the King's forgiveness, return all runaway slaves, and be relocated elsewhere in Jamaica|Breach of treaty caused deportation of several Maroons to Nova Scotia and later to Sierra Leone in Africa }} |
Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars (1795–1816) | Burrberongal Tribe | Dharug | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory
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Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) Location: Newfoundland, English Channel, | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | {{flagdeco|Spain|1785}} Spain | style="Background:#BBF" |Inconclusive or other outcome |
Kandyan Wars (1796–1818) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory |
War of the Second Coalition (1797–1802) | {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} (until 1801){{efn|Nominally the Holy Roman Empire, under Austrian Habsburg rule, also nominally encompassed some other Italian states abolished in 1797, as well as other Habsburg states such as the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.}}
{{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}Great Britain until 1800. Left the war signing the treaty of Amiens. | {{flag|French First Republic|name=French Republic}}
|style="Background:#F88"|French victory Treaty of Lunéville, Treaty of Amiens
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Irish Rebellion of 1798 (1798) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | {{flagicon image|Green harp flag of Ireland.svg}} Irish Republic |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company {{flag|Maratha Empire}} {{flagicon image|Asafia flag of Hyderabad State.svg}} Hyderabad State | {{flagicon image|Flag of Mysore.svg}} Kingdom of Mysore |style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory
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Second Polygar War (1799){{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Indian_History/MazdaWXQFuQC?hl=pl&gbpv=1&dq=First+Polygar+War&pg=RA3-PA114&printsec=frontcover |title=Indian History |publisher=Allied Publishers |isbn=978-81-8424-568-4 |page=114 |language=en}} |{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company |Polygars of the Tirunelveli district |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Third Polygar War (1800–1801){{Cite book |last=Sahni |first=Janmenjay |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Magbook_Indian_History_2020/cEkCEAAAQBAJ?hl=pl&gbpv=1&dq=First+Polygar+War&pg=PA112&printsec=frontcover |title=Magbook Indian History 2020 |date=2020-07-30 |publisher=Arihant Publications India limited |isbn=978-93-241-9930-0 |page=112 |language=en}} |{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922)
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Temne War (1801–1807) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory
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Second Anglo-Maratha War (1802–1805) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company | {{flag|Maratha Empire}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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First Kandyan War (1803–1805) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|King of Kandy.svg}} Kandy |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Civil War: Emmet's Insurrection |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of Leinster.svg}} Forces of Robert Emmet |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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British Expedition to Ceylon (1803) | {{flag|Dutch Republic}} | Chiefdom of Vanni |style="background:#AF9"| British Allied victory
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War of the Third Coalition (1805–1806) | {{flag|Austrian Empire}} {{flag|Russian Empire}} {{flagicon|Two Sicilies}} Naples and Sicily {{flagicon image|Flag Portugal (1750).svg}} Portugal {{flag|Sweden}} | {{flagicon|France}} French Empire {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Batavia {{flagicon|Napoleonic Italy}} Italy {{flagicon|Napoleonic Italy|etruria}} Etruria {{flagu|Spain|1785}} {{flagicon|Bavaria}} Bavaria {{flagicon|Württemberg}} Württemberg |style="Background:#F88"| French Allied victory
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Vellore Mutiny (1806)
|{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company |Indian rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
War of the Fourth Coalition (1806–1807) | {{flag|Prussia|1803}} {{flagcountry|Russian Empire}} {{flagcountry|Electorate of Saxony}} {{flag|Sweden|1761}} {{flagicon|Two Sicilies}} Sicily | {{flagicon|France}} French Empire
{{flagicon image|OrzelekPoniatowski.jpg|20px}} Polish Legions {{flagicon|Napoleonic Italy}} Italy {{flagicon|Two Sicilies|1806}} Naples {{flagicon|Napoleonic Italy|etruria}} Etruria {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Holland {{flagicon|Switzerland}} Swiss Confederation {{flagu|Spain|1785}} |style="Background:#F88"|French Allied victory
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Ashanti–Fante War (1806–1807) | Fante Confederacy | {{flag|Ashanti Empire}} {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Dutch Empire |style="Background:#F88"|Dutch victory |
Anglo-Turkish War (1807–1809) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} |style="Background:#BBF"|Disputed
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Gunboat War (1807–1814) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon|Denmark}} Denmark–Norway |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flag|Russian Empire}} |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome
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Peninsular War (1807–1814) | {{flagu|Spain|1785}} {{flagicon image|Flag Portugal (1750).svg}} Portugal {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon|France}} French Empire |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Travancore Rebellion (1808–1809) | File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg East India Company | {{flag|Travancore}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
War of the Fifth Coalition (1809) | {{flag|Austrian Empire}} {{flagu|Spain|1785}} {{Flag|Kingdom of Portugal|1750}} {{flagicon image|Flag of Tirol (state).svg}} Tyrol {{flagicon image|War Flag of Hungary.svg}} Hungary {{flagicon|Prussia|1803}} Black Brunswickers {{flagicon|Two Sicilies}} Sicily {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Sardinia}} | {{flagicon|France}} French Empire
{{flagicon|Napoleonic Italy}} Kingdom of Italy {{flagicon image|Flag of the Kingdom of Naples (1808).svg}} Naples {{flagicon|Switzerland}}Swiss Confederation {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Holland |style="Background:#F88"| French–allied victory
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Persian Gulf campaign of 1809 (1809) | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
4th Xhosa War (1811–1812) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Xhosa tribes |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Xhosa tribes pushed beyond the Fish River, reversing their gains in the previous Xhosa wars |
War of 1812 (1812–1815) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| {{flagicon|United States|1795}} United States |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome Treaty of Ghent; Status quo ante bellum with no boundary changes
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War of the Sixth Coalition (1812–1814) | Original Coalition After Battle of Leipzig
| {{flag|First French Empire}}
Until January 1814
|style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory
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Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816) | {{Flag|East India Company}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Second Kandyan War (1815) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|King of Kandy.svg}} Kandy |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Hundred Days (1815) War of the Seventh Coalition | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} {{flag|Prussia|1803}} {{flagicon|France|1814}} France {{flagicon image|Flag of Hanover (1692).svg}} Hanover {{flagicon image|Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor (after 1400).svg}} German Confederation {{flagcountry|Austrian Empire}} {{flagcountry|Russian Empire}} {{flag|Sweden}} {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of the Netherlands}} {{flagu|Spain|1785}} {{flagicon image|Flag Portugal (1750).svg}} Portugal {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Sardinia}} {{flag|Two Sicilies|name=Kingdom of the Two Sicilies}} {{flagicon image|State flag simple of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.svg}} Tuscany | {{flagicon|France}} French Empire {{flagicon image|Flag of the Kingdom of Naples (1811).svg}} Naples |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Slachter's Nek Rebellion (1815) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Boer rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Bussa's Rebellion (1816) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Rebel slaves |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Bombardment of Algiers (1816) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{Flag|Regency of Algiers}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company | {{flag|Maratha Empire}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Paika Rebellion (1817–1818)
|{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Persian Gulf campaign of 1819 (1819) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | 22px Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) |1821: {{Collapsible list |bullets = yes |title = Supported by: |{{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_United_Principalities_of_Romania_%281862_-_1866%29.svg}} Romanian Revolutionaries (1821) |{{flagicon|Greece|old}} Philhellenes |{{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} (after 1826) |{{flagdeco|Russia}} Russian Empire (after 1826) |{{flagicon image| Royal flag of France during the Bourbon Restoration.svg}} Kingdom of France (after 1826) |{{flagdeco|Serbia|civil}} Serb and Montenegrin volunteers }}
|style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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First Anglo-Ashanti War (1823–1831) |{{flag|British Empire}} |{{flag|Ashanti Empire}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Bathurst War (1824) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company Native tribes | File:Flag of the Alaungpaya Dynasty of Myanmar.svg Burmese Empire |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Siege of Bharatpur (1825–1826) | {{Flag|East India Company}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of Bharatpur.svg}} Bharatpur State |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
British attack on Berbera (1827) |{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
|{{Flag|Isaaq Sultanate}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Revolt of the Mercenaries (1828) | {{flagicon|Empire of Brazil}} Brazil | {{flagicon|Germany}} German Mercenaries |style="background:#AF9"| British Allied victory
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Ahom Rebellion (1828) | {{Flag|East India Company}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Bathurst Rebellion (1830) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Naning War (1831–1832) | {{Flag|East India Company}} | Naning |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Barra War (1831–1832) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome |
Baptist War (1831–1832) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Rebel slaves |style="background:#AF9"| British victory
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Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1832–1833) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flag|United Provinces of the Río de la Plata}} | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory
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First Carlist War (1833–1840) | {{flagicon|Spain|1785}} Forces of Queen Isabella II {{flagicon|France}} French Kingdom {{flagicon|Portugal|1830}} Forces of Queen Maria II {{flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} Auxiliary Legion | Carlists:
| style="Background:#BBF" |Inconclusive or other outcome
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Coorg War (1834) | {{Flag|East India Company}} | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory |
The 6th Xhosa War (1834–1836) | {{flagicon|UK}} Free Khoikhoi | Xhosa tribes | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory Extensive territorial gains from Xhosa |
Rebellions of 1837–1838 (1837–1838) | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Province of Lower Canada | {{flagicon image|Flag of the Patriote movement (Lower Canada).svg}} Patriotes | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory
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Pastry War (1838–1839) also known First Franco–Mexican War | {{flagu|France|size=23px}} | {{flag|Mexico|1823|size=23px}} | style="Background:#AF9" | British Victory
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First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company | {{flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan pre-1901.svg}} Emirate of Kabul | style="Background:#F88" |Barakzai Afghan victory
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Aden Expedition (1839) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{Flag|Lahej}} | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory Port of Aden ceded to Britain |
Second Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839–1841) | File:Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg Ottoman Empire | File:Flag of Egypt 19th century.svg Egypt Eyalet | style="background:#AF9" | British Allied victory
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First Opium War (1839–1842) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flag|Qing dynasty|1862}} | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory
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Newport Rising (1839) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory |
Mysore Rebellion (1840–1841)
|{{Flag|East India Company}} |Forces led by Dhondji Wagh |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Battle of Congella (1842) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{Flag|Natalia Republic}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
British Conquest of Sindh (1843) | {{Flag|East India Company}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of Talpur dynasty.gif}} Talpur dynasty |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Gwalior campaign (1843) | {{Flag|East India Company}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Flagstaff War (1845–1846) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Māori |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome |
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata (1845–1850) | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg British Empire | File:Flag of the Argentine Confederation.svg Argentine Confederation |style="Background:#F88"|Argentine Confederation victory
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First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–1846) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Hutt Valley campaign (1846) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
The 7th Xhosa War (1846–1847) The War of the Axe |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | Xhosa tribes |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Territory ceded from Xhosa |
Whanganui campaign (1847) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Māori |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome |
Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901) | {{flag|Mexico|1823|size=23px}} | Maya |style="Background:#AF9"| British Allied victory
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Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Complete annexation of the Punjab by the East India Company |
Battle of Tysami (1849) | {{flagcountry|UKGBI}} | Chui A-poo's pirates |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Battle of Tonkin River (1849) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Shap-ng-tsai's pirates |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
The 8th Xhosa War (1850–1853) Mlanjeni's War |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | Xhosa tribes Khoikhoi tribes {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Native Kafir Police |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Xhosa-Khoi attacks defeated |
Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) | {{flag|Qing dynasty|1862}} | style="Background:#AF9" |British Allied victory
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Eureka Rebellion (1851–1854) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Eureka Flag.svg}} Stockade rebels | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory |
Reduction of Lagos (1851–1852) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Lagos | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory |
Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852–1853) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | File:Flag of the Alaungpaya Dynasty of Myanmar.svg Burmese Empire | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory Burmese revolution ended fighting Lower Burma annexed |
Crimean War (1853–1856) | {{flagicon|France}} French Empire {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} {{flag|Kingdom of Sardinia}} | {{Flag|Russian Empire}} {{flagicon|Bulgaria}} Bulgarian Legion | style="Background:#AF9" |British Allied victory |
The Battle of Muddy Flat (1854)
Part of Taiping Rebellion, but before the British switched sides in (1860). |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Qing dynasty|1862}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Second Opium War (1856–1860) Arrow War | {{flagicon|France}} French Empire | {{flag|Qing dynasty|1862}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
Anglo-Persian War (1856–1857) | {{flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan pre-1901.svg}} Afghanistan {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company | {{flagicon image|Early 20th Century Qajar Flag.svg}} Persia |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory Persian withdrawal from Herat |
Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857–1858) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company {{Collapsible list |bullets = yes |title =Princely states }} | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} Sepoys of the East India Company {{noflag}} Mughal Empire |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory Act for the Better Government of India:
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Second Anglo-Ashanti War (1863–1864)
|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}{{Clear}} Fante tribes |{{flag|Ashanti Empire}} |style="Background:#BBF"|Stalemate |
Invasion of the Waikato (1863–1864) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_United_Tribes_of_New_Zealand.svg}} Kīngitanga |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Shimonoseki campaign (1863–1864) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
Bombardment of Kagoshima (1863) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} |style="background:#AF9"| British victory
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Ambela campaign (1863–1864) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{Flag|State of Swat}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Tauranga campaign (1864) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Ngāi Te Rangi Pukehinahina flag.svg}} Tauranga Māori |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Duar War (1864–1865) | {{Flag|British Raj|name=India}} | Bhutan |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Fenian Rising (1867) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Green Sunburst Flag.svg}} Irish Republican Brotherhood |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
British expedition to Abyssinia (1867–1868) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Klang War (1867–1874) Selangor Civil War | Forces of Raja Abdullah of Klang {{flagicon image|Flag of the British Straits Settlements (1904–1925).svg}} British Straits Settlements | Forces of Raja Mahadi |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
Nukapu Expedition (1871–1872) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Nukapu natives |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Bombardment of Omoa (1873) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{Flag|Honduras|1866}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Third Ashanti War (1873–1874) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flag|Ashanti Empire}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Treaty of Fomena:
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Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British-Afzalid victory
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Anglo-Zulu War (1879) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Zululand annexed to Natal |
'Urabi revolt (1879–1882) | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed Urabi |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Basuto Gun War (1880–1881) | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | Basuto people |style="Background:#F88"|Basuto victory
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First Boer War (1880–1881) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flag|South African Republic}} |style="Background:#F88"|South African victory
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Mahdist War (1881–1899) | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{Flag|Mahdist State}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | File:Flag of the Alaungpaya Dynasty of Myanmar.svg Burmese Empire |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Upper Burma annexed to India |
Sikkim expedition (1888) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | {{flagicon|Qing dynasty}} Tibet |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Tibet recognizes British suzerainty over Sikkim |
Hazara Expedition (1888)
|{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |Tribes of the Torghar District |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Chin-Lushai Expedition (1889–1890) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | Tribes of the Chin Hills and Lushai Hills |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Anglo-Manipur War (1891) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Hunza–Nagar Campaign (1891) | {{Flag|British Raj|name=India}} | {{Flag|State of Hunza}} {{Flagicon image|Nagar State Flag.png}} Nagar State |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
First Matabele War (1893–1894) | {{flagicon image|Flag of BSAC.svg}} South Africa Company |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Chitral Expedition (1895)
|{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} Pro–British Chitralis {{flagicon image|Flag of the State of Dir 2.svg}} Dir state |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Fourth Anglo–Ashanti War{{Cite book |last=Rosa |first=Frederico Delgado |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Ethnographers_Before_Malinowski/3YbqEAAAQBAJ?hl=pl&gbpv=1&dq=fourth+anglo-ashanti+war&pg=PT415&printsec=frontcover |title=Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 |last2=Vermeulen |first2=Han F. |date=2022-06-10 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-80539-566-9 |language=en |quote=The Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895-96) [...] The Ashanti were defeated}} (1895–1896)
|{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Ashanti Empire}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.svg}} Sultanate of Zanzibar | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory
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Second Matabele War (1896–1897) | {{flagicon image|Flag of BSAC.svg}} South Africa Company | Matebele |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Tochi Expedition (1897)
|{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Siege of Malakand (1897)
|{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Tirah campaign (1897–1898)
|{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Mohmand campaign (1897–1898)
|{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Cretan Revolt (1897–1898)
| 22px Cretan revolutionaries | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory
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Benin Expedition of 1897 (1897) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{Flagu|Benin Empire|name=Kingdom of Benin}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Tirah campaign (1897–1898) | {{Flag|British Raj|name=India}} | Afridi tribe |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Second Samoan Civil War
(1898–1899) |{{flagicon image|Flag of Samoa (1879).svg|size=22px}} Supporters of Tanumafili I {{flag|United States|1896|size=22px}} {{flagu|United Kingdom|size=22px}} |{{flagicon image|Flag of Tuiaana line 1873-1887 1889-1900.svg|size=22px}} Supporters of Mataʻafa {{flag|German Empire|name=Germany|size=22px}} |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome |
Six-Day War (1899) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Punti clans |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) | {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} {{flagcountry|Russian Empire}} {{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}} {{flagicon|France}} France {{Flag|United States|1896}} {{flagcountry|German Empire}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy}} {{flag|Austria-Hungary}} | {{flagicon image|Yihetuan flag.svg|size=23px}} Righteous Harmony Society {{flag|Qing dynasty}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Second Boer War (1899–1902) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{Flag|South African Republic}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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War of the Golden Stool
(1900) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Ashanti Empire}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Somaliland campaign (1900–1920) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Dervish Somali flag.png}} Dervish Movement |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Mahsud Waziri blockade (1900–1902) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | Mahsud rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Anglo-Aro War (1901–1902) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Aro Confederacy destroyed |
Kano–Sokoto Expedition (1903) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sokoto Caliphate.svg}} Sokoto Caliphate |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
British expedition to Tibet (1903–1904) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | {{flagicon|Qing dynasty}} Tibet |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Bambatha Rebellion (1906) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | Zulu rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Bazar Valley campaign (1908) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | Rebel tribes |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Muscat Rebellion (1913–1920) | {{flag|British Empire}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of The Imamate of Oman.svg}} Imamate of Oman |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome |
First World War (1914–1918) {{flagu|France|size=23px}} {{flag|British Empire|size=23px}}
{{flagcountry|Russian Empire|size=23px}} {{flag|United States|1912|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|size=23px}} {{flag|Empire of Japan|name=Japan|size=23px}} {{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|name=China|1912|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Serbia|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Montenegro|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Romania|size=23px}} {{flag|Belgium|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|size=23px}} {{flag|Portugal|size=23px}} {{flag|Brazil|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|German Empire|size=23px}}
{{flag|Austria-Hungary|size=23px}} {{flag|Ottoman Empire|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Bulgaria|size=23px}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
Treaties of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Trianon:
Russia pulls out in 1917
Creation of League of Nations:
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Operations in the Tochi (1914–1915) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | Khost tribesmen |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Chilembwe uprising (1915) | {{Flag|British Empire}}
| Nyasaland rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Kelantan Rebellion (1915) | {{flagicon|UKGBI}} British Empire
| Kelantanese rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Peshawar campaign (1915) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | Mohmands, Bunerwals and Swatis |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Bussa Rebellion (1915) | {{flag|British Empire}}
| Bussa rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Invasion of Darfur (1916) | {{Flag|British Empire}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
Easter Rising (1916) | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{Flag|Irish Republic|1916}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Mohmand Blockade (1916–1917) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | Mohmands | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory |
Mahsuds campaign (1917) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | Mahsud tribesmen |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Kuki Rebellion of 1917–1919 (1917–1919) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Adubi War (1918) | {{ubl |{{flagicon|UKGBI}} British forces | Egba rebels | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory
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Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920) | {{flag|Estonia}} | {{flagu|Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|1918|name=Russian SFSR}} ---- {{flagicon image|Flag of Baltic Germans.svg}} Baltische Landeswehr |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920) | {{flag|Latvia}} | {{flag|German Empire}} ---- {{flagu|Russian SFSR|1918}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918–1920) | {{flagicon|Russia|size=23px}} White movement {{flag|British Empire|size=23px}}
{{Flag|United States|1912|size=23px}} {{flagicon|France|size=23px}} France {{flagcountry|Empire of Japan|size=23px}} {{flag|Czechoslovakia|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|size=23px}} {{flag|Estonia|size=23px}} {{flag|Kingdom of Serbia|name=Serbia|size=23px}} {{flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy|size=23px}} {{flag|Second Polish Republic|name=Poland|size=23px}} {{flag|Kingdom of Romania|name=Romania|size=23px}} {{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|name=China|1912|size=23px}} | {{Flag|Russian SFSR|1918|size=23px}} {{flag|Far Eastern Republic|size=23px}} {{flagicon image|Flag of Latvian SSR 1919.svg|size=23px}} Latvian SSR {{flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian SSR (1923-1927).svg|size=23px}} Ukrainian SSR {{flagicon image|Flag of CWP of Estonia.svg|size=23px}} Commune of Estonia {{flagicon image|Flag of the People's Republic of Mongolia (1921-1924).svg|size=23px}} Mongolian Communists |style="background:#F88"| Bolshevik victory
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Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon|Ireland}} Irish Republic | style="background:#BBF"|Inconclusive/Other
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Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | {{flag|Afghanistan|1919}} | style="background:#BBF"|Disputed/Unknown |
Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923) | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece}}
{{flagicon image|Flag of Georgia (1918–1921).svg}} Georgia (in 1921) | {{flagdeco|Ottoman Empire|1823}} Turkish National Movement
Supported by: {{Flag|Russian SFSR|1918|name=Russian SFSR}}{{cite book| last = Jelavich| first = Barbara| title = History of the Balkans: Twentieth century| url = https://archive.org/details/historyofbalkans0000jela| url-access = registration| year = 1983| publisher = Cambridge University Press| isbn = 978-0-521-27459-3| page = [https://archive.org/details/historyofbalkans0000jela/page/131 131] }} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy}} |style="background:#F88"| Turkish Allied victory
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Kuwait–Najd War (1919–1920) | File:Flag of Kuwait (1914-1921).svg Kuwait
| {{flagdeco|Saudi Arabia|1824}} Sultanate of Nejd
|style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
Waziristan campaign (1919–1920) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Samakh Raid (1920) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of Kingdom of Syria (1920-03-08 to 1920-07-24).svg}} Arab Kingdom of Syria |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Great Iraqi Revolution of 1920 (1920) |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of Hejaz (1917).svg}} Iraqi rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Waziristan campaign (1921–1924)
|{{flag|British Empire}}
|style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
1922 Burao tax revolt (1922) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} {{*}}{{flag|British Somaliland}} | Habr Yoonis tribesmen | style="background:#F88" |Tribal victory
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IRA Northern Offensive (1922) | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon|Ireland}} Irish Republican Army |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
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Adwan Rebellion (1923) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| {{flagicon|Jordan|23px}} Sultan al-Adwan's forces |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory Sultan al-Adwan's defeat and exile |
Pink's War (1925)
|{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Irene Incident (1927) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | Pirates |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Ikhwan Revolt (1927–1930) | File:Flag of Kuwait (1914-1921).svg Kuwait | {{flagicon image|Flag of Ikhwan.svg}} Ikhwan |style="Background:#AF9"| British Allied victory
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Mohmand campaign (1935)
|{{flag|British Empire}}
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Afghanistan}} Kingdom of Afghanistan |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Great Arab Revolt in Palestine (1936–1939) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | {{Flagicon image|Flag of Hejaz (1917).svg}} Arab Higher Committee | style="Background:#AF9" |British–allied victory{{cite web | url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2019/05/31/book-review-britains-pacification-of-palestine-the-british-army-the-colonial-state-and-the-arab-revolt-1936-1939-by-matthew-hughes/ | title=Book Review – 'Britain's Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936–9' by Matthew Hughes | date=31 May 2019 }}
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Waziristan Campaign (1936–1939) | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of Waziristan resistance (1930s).svg}} Waziristan |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Palestine Emergency (1939–1948) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon|Israel}} Yishuv |style="Background:#F88"| Yishuv victoryCharters, David A. The British army and Jewish insurgency in Palestine, 1945–47. Springer, 1989, p. X
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S-Plan 16 January 1939 – March 1940 | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon|Ireland}} Irish Republican Army |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Crowley, pg 809
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Second World War (1939–1945) {{Flag|United States|1912|size=23px}} {{flag|Soviet Union|1936|size=23px}} {{Flag|United Kingdom|size=23px}} {{flag|Republic of China (1912–49)|name=China|size=23px}} {{flagicon|France|size=23px}} France {{flagicon|Poland|size=23px}} Poland {{Flag|Canada|1921|size=23px}} {{Flag|Australia|size=23px}} {{Flag|New Zealand|size=23px}} {{Flag|British Raj|name=British India|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Union of South Africa|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Democratic Federal Yugoslavia|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|size=23px}} {{flag|Denmark|size=23px}} {{flag|Norway|size=23px}} {{flag|Netherlands|size=23px}} {{flag|Belgium|size=23px}} {{flag|Luxembourg|size=23px}} {{flag|Czechoslovakia|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Ethiopian Empire|size=22px}} {{flag|Brazil|size=23px}} {{flag|Mexico|1934|size=23px}} {{flagicon|Nepal|23px}} Gorkha Kingdom {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Empire of Japan|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Hungary|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Romania|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Bulgaria|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Independent State of Croatia|size=23px}} {{flag|Slovak Republic (1939–1945)|name=Slovakia|size=22px}} {{flag|Finland|size=23px}} {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Iraq|size=23px}} {{flag|Thailand|size=23px}} {{flag|Manchukuo|size=23px}} {{flag|Mengjiang|size=23px}} {{flag|Azad Hind|size=23px}} {{flag|State of Burma|size=23px}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory Nazi Germany formally surrenders 8 May 1945, ending the Second World War in Europe. On 15 August 1945, following the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan announces its surrender, ending the Second World War British (and Commonwealth), French, American, and Soviet troops occupy Germany until 1955, Italy and Japan lose their colonies, Europe is divided into 'Soviet' and 'Western' spheres of interest. |
Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran (1941) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | {{flagcountry|Pahlavi Iran|1933}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
Northern Campaign 2 September 1942 – December 1944 |{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Royal Ulster Constabulary |{{flagicon|Ireland}} Irish Republican Army | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory
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Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947 (1944–1947) |{{Flag|Kingdom of Afghanistan|name=Afghanistan}} |Rebel tribes: |style="Background:#AF9"|Afghan government & British victory
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1944–45 Insurgency in Balochistan (1944–1945) |{{flagu|United Kingdom}} |Badinzai rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Dekemvriana (1944–1945) | {{flagdeco|Greece|royal}} Kingdom of Greece | {{flagicon image|Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg}} National Liberation Front (Greece) |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
1945 Sheikh Bashir Rebellion (1945) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} {{*}}{{flag|British Somaliland}} | Armed Habr Je'lo tribesmen | style="Background:#AF9" |British Pyrrhic victory |
Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} {{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}} (until 1945) | {{flagicon image|Flag of Indonesia.svg|size=23px}} Indonesia {{flagcountry|Japan|size=23px}} (volunteers) {{flagcountry|British Raj|size=23px}} (defectors) | style="Background:#BBF" |Inconclusive or other outcome
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Operation Masterdom (1945–1946) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
{{flagdeco|France|1794}} France {{Flagdeco|Empire of Japan}} Empire of Japan | {{flagicon|North Vietnam|1945}} Việt Minh | style="Background:#AF9" |British Allied victory
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Greek Civil War (1946–1948) | {{flag|Kingdom of Greece}} {{flagu|United Kingdom}} {{flagu|United States|1912}} {{flag|Albania}} {{flag|Yugoslavia}} {{flag|Bulgaria}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
Corfu Channel incident (1946–1948) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flag|People's Socialist Republic of Albania|name=Albania}} |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome
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Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) | {{flagicon|British Empire}} British Commonwealth
{{flag|Thailand}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of the Communist Party of Malaya.svg}} Malayan Communist Party {{flagicon image|Flag of the Malayan National Liberation Army.svg}} Malayan National Liberation Army |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Korean War (1950–1953) | {{flagicon|United Nations|size=23px}} United Nations Command {{flag|South Korea|size=23px}} {{flag|United States|1912|size=23px}} {{flagicon|British Empire|size=23px}} British Commonwealth Forces Korea
{{flag|Belgium|size=23px}} {{flag|France|size=23px}} {{flag|Philippines|1936|size=23px}} {{flag|Colombia|size=23px}} {{flag|Ethiopian Empire|name=Ethiopia|size=23px}} {{flag|Kingdom of Greece|name=Greece|size=23px}} {{flag|Luxembourg|size=23px}} {{flag|Netherlands|size=23px}} {{flag|Union of South Africa|name=South Africa|size=23px}} {{flag|Thailand|size=23px}} {{flag|Turkey|size=23px}} | {{flag|North Korea|size=23px}} {{flag|Soviet Union|size=23px}} |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome
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Battle of Ismailia (1952)
|{{Flag|United Kingdom}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Egyptian revolution (1952) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}{{Clear}} {{flagicon|Egypt|1922}} Egypt | {{flagicon|Egypt|1952}} Free Officers Movement{{Clear}} {{Flag|United States}} |style="Background:#F88"|Coup successful
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Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| Mau Mau |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Opération Ajax
(15-19 August 1953) |{{Flag|United Kingdom}} {{Flag|United States}} |style="Background:#AF9"|Overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh
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Jebel Akhdar War (1954–1959) | {{flagicon image|Flag of Muscat.svg}} Sultanate of Muscat and Oman | {{flagicon image|Flag of The Imamate of Oman.svg}} Imamate of Oman
|style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Cyprus Emergency (1955–1959) | {{flag|United Kingdom}}
---- {{flagicon|Turkey}} TMT | {{flagicon image|EOKA flag.svg|size=22px}} EOKA |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome{{cite book |last1=French |first1=David |title=Fighting EOKA The British Counter-insurgency Campaign on Cyprus, 1955-1959 |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780198729341 |page=302 |quote=that no one had emerged after four years of violence as an outright winner}}{{cite book | chapter-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt5hhsjk.17 | jstor=10.7249/j.ctt5hhsjk.17 | chapter=Cyprus, 1955–1959 | last1=Paul | first1=Christopher | last2=Clarke | first2=Colin P. | last3=Grill | first3=Beth | last4=Dunigan | first4=Molly | title=Paths to Victory | year=2013 | pages=94–103 | publisher=RAND Corporation | isbn=9780833081094 }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyVJDAAAQBAJ&q=defeat | title=Great Power Politics in Cyprus: Foreign Interventions and Domestic Perceptions | isbn=9781443863254 | last1=Alexandrou | first1=Haralambos | last2=Kontos | first2=Michalis | last3=Panayiotides | first3=Nikos | date=30 June 2014 | publisher=Cambridge Scholars }}
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Suez Crisis (1956–1957) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} {{flagicon|France}} France {{flag|Israel}} | {{flagicon|Egypt|1952}} Egypt |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome Coalition military victory{{cite book |first=Michelle |last=Mart |title=Eye on Israel: How America Came to View the Jewish State as an Ally |page=159 |isbn=0791466876 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=siDi1WTHjOUC&q=military+victory+over+Nasser+and+their+partnership+with+the+British+and+the+French&pg=PA159 |date=2006-02-09 |publisher=SUNY Press }}Stewart (2013) p 133
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Border Campaign (1956–1962) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | File:Flag of Ireland (bordered).svg Irish Republican Army |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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First Cod War (1958–1961) |{{Flag|United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Iceland}} |style="Background:#F88"|Icelandic victory{{efn|Militarised interstate dispute over fishing rights in waters near Iceland;{{Cite journal|last1=Hellmann|first1=Gunther|last2=Herborth|first2=Benjamin|date=2008-07-01|title=Fishing in the mild West: democratic peace and militarised interstate disputes in the transatlantic community|journal=Review of International Studies|volume=34|issue=3|pages=481–506|doi=10.1017/S0260210508008139|s2cid=144997884|issn=1469-9044}} Iceland has never fought in a full-scale war.{{Cite web|date=2017-07-14|title=From Iceland — Ask A Historian: Has Iceland Ever Been Involved In Any Wars Or Conflicts|url=https://grapevine.is/mag/interview/2017/07/14/ask-a-historian-has-iceland-ever-been-involved-in-any-wars-or-conflicts/|access-date=2020-10-17|website=The Reykjavik Grapevine}}|name=CodWars}}
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Upper Yafa disturbances{{Cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1959-07-07a.1104.2|title=Upper Yafa (Disturbances): 7 Jul 1959: House of Commons debates|website=TheyWorkForYou|access-date=2019-06-26}} (1959) | {{flag|British Empire}}
| Rebels |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Brunei Revolt (1962) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of the PRB.svg}} Brunei People's Party |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory |
Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation (1963–1966) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the United Kingdom.svg}} Commonwealth of Nations
| {{flag|Indonesia}} | style="Background:#AF9" |British Allied victory Indonesia recognises Malaysian rule over former North Borneo |
Dhofar Rebellion (1963–1975) | {{flag|Oman}} {{flag|Jordan}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman.svg}} Various insurgents |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory Insurgency defeated |
Aden Emergency (1963–1967) | {{flagicon|South Arabia}} Federation of South Arabia | {{flagicon|South Yemen}} NLF |style="Background:#F88"| Yemeni NLF victory |
The Troubles (1968–1998) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
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File:StarryPlough.svg Irish National Liberation Army File:StarryPlough.svg Irish People's Liberation Organisation |style="Background:#BBF"|Stalemate Inconclusive or other outcome
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Second Cod War (1972–1973) |{{Flag|United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Iceland}} |style="Background:#F88"|Icelandic victory{{efn|name=CodWars}} |
Third Cod War (1975–1976) |{{Flag|United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Iceland}} |style="Background:#F88"|Icelandic victory{{efn|name=CodWars}} |
Iranian Embassy siege (1980) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | {{flagicon image|Flag of Arabistan.svg}} Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory |
Falklands War (1982) | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} | {{flag|Argentina}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory
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Multinational Force in Lebanon (1982–1984) | {{flagu|United Kingdom}} {{flagu|France}} {{flagu|United States}} {{flagu|Italy}} | Islamic Jihad Organization |style="Background:#F88"|Syrian Allied victory{{Cite news|last=Friedman|first=Thomas L.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/08/magazine/america-s-failure-in-lebanon.html|title=America's Failure in Lebanon|date=1984-04-08|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-08|issn=0362-4331}}
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Gulf War (1990–1991) | {{flag|Kuwait}} {{Flag|United States}} {{Flag|United Kingdom}} {{flag|Saudi Arabia}} {{Flag|France}} {{flag|Egypt}} {{flag|Syria}} | {{Flagicon image|Flag of Iraq (1963-1991).svg}} Iraq |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory Kuwait regains its independence |
Bosnian War (1992–1995) |{{flagicon|United Nations}} UNPROFOR {{flag|NATO}} | {{flagcountry|Republika Srpska}} {{flagcountry|Republic of Serbian Krajina}} {{flagicon image|Flag of AP Western Bosnia (1993-1995).svg}} Western Bosnia |style="Background:#BBF"|Military stalemate |
Operation Desert Fox (1998) | {{flagu|United States}} {{flagu|United Kingdom}} | {{flag|Iraq|1991}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory Objectives largely achieved |
Kosovo War (1998–1999) | {{flagu|United States}} {{flagu|United Kingdom}} {{flagu|France}} {{flagu|Canada}} {{flag|Denmark}} {{flagu|Germany}} {{flagu|Italy}} | {{flagcountry|FR Yugoslavia}} |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory Kosovo occupied by Nato forces Kosovo administered by UNMIK |
Sierra Leone Civil War (2000–2002) | {{flag|Sierra Leone}} | {{flagicon image|Sl RUF.png|20px}} RUF |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory Rebels defeated |
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | {{flag|Afghanistan|2001}} {{Flag|United States}} {{Flag|United Kingdom}} {{Flag|Canada}} {{Flag|Germany}} {{Flag|Italy}} {{Flag|France}} {{flag|Denmark}} {{flag|Poland}} {{flag|Romania}} {{flag|Turkey}} {{Flag|Australia}} {{Flag|Spain}} {{Flag|Netherlands}} | {{flagicon|Afghanistan|Taliban}} Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan |style="Background:#F88"|Taliban victory
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Iraq War (2003–2009) | {{flagu|United States}} {{flagu|United Kingdom}} {{flag|Iraq}} after the fall of Saddam Hussein {{flagu|Australia}} {{flag|Poland}} {{flag|Denmark}} {{flag|Iraqi Kurdistan}} | {{flag|Iraq|1991}} under Saddam Hussein {{flagicon image|Flag of the Islamic State in Iraq.svg}} Islamic State of Iraq |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory:
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First Libyan Civil War (2011) | Many NATO {{flagicon|NATO}} members acting under {{flagicon|United Nations}} UN mandate, including: {{flagu|United States}} {{flagu|United Kingdom}} {{flagu|France}} {{flag|Denmark}} {{flagu|Italy}} {{flagu|Canada}} and {{flagicon|Libya|1951}} Anti-Gaddafi forces {{flagicon|Arab League}} several Arab League states {{flagu|Sweden}} | {{flagicon|Libya|1977}} Pro-Gaddafi forces |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
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Operation Shader (2014–present) | {{flagu|United States}} | {{flag|Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant}} ---- {{flagicon image|Flag of the Al-Nusra Front.svg}} al-Nusra Front {{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} Khorasan ---- {{flagicon image |
|style="background:#FCE883"| Ongoing
- The UK's Operation Shader is ongoing as part of intervention in Iraq and Syria (2014–present)
- 3,000+ ISIL fighters killed in 1,700 British airstrikes.{{cite news|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/british-air-strikes-killed-3000-11209079|title=British air strikes have killed 3,000 ISIS militants over three years|first1=Arj|last1=Singh|first2=Mikey|last2=Smith|date=20 September 2017|website=Daily Mirror}}{{cite web|url=https://dronewars.net/uk-drone-strike-list-2/|title=UK Drone Strike Stats|date=29 February 2012|website=Drone Wars UK}}
- Ongoing operations by UK Special Forces in Syria.
- British armed forces provide material and training to Iraqi Security Forces and Peshmerga.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29586437|title=UK troops training Kurdish forces|work=BBC News |date=12 October 2014}}{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/british-trained-iraqi-soldiers-gear-up-to-back-baghdad-surge-xbkfxjmztk3|title=British trained Iraqi soldiers gear up to back Baghdad surge|first=Stephen|last=Farrell|date=27 February 2007|location=Rustamiyah|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}
- As part of the American-led interventions in Syria and Iraq, contributes to the loss of all of ISIL's territory in Iraq (by December 2017) and Syria (by March 2019).
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|style="background:#FCE883"| Ongoing
- US-led multinational coalition formed in December 2023 to respond to attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.{{cite news | title=Austin announces US-led security operation focusing on Red Sea, Gulf of Aden after Houthi attacks on commercial shipping |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/18/politics/commercial-ships-red-sea-gulf-of-aden-houthi-attacks/index.html |website=CNN |date=December 19, 2023 |publisher=CNN |access-date=December 19, 2023}}{{cite news | title=US-led coalition of 10 nations to counter Houthi attacks on vessels in Red Sea |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-led-coalition-of-10-nations-to-counter-houthi-attacks-on-vessels-in-red-sea/ |website=The Times of Israel |date=December 19, 2023 |publisher=The Times of Israel |access-date=December 19, 2023}}
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See also
Notes
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References
=Citations=
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=Bibliography=
- {{cite book |last=Cavanna |first=Thomas |title=Hubris, Self-Interest and America's Failed War in Afghanistan |year=2015 |publisher=Lexington Books |location=Lanham, Maryland |isbn=9781498506205 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBsECgAAQBAJ&pg=PR18}}
- {{cite book |last=Lansford |first=Tom |title=Afghanistan at War: From the 18th Century Durrani Dynasty to the 21st Century |year=2017 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location= Santa Barbara, California |isbn=9781598847604 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxwIDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 }}
- Tal, David (2001). The 1956 War: Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East (Psychology Press). p. 203. {{ISBN|978-0-7146-4840-8}}
Further reading
- Barnett, Correlli. Britain and her army, 1509–1970: a military, political and social survey (1970).
- Black, Jeremy. A military history of Britain: from 1775 to the present (2008).
- Bradford, James C. ed. International Encyclopedia of Military History (2 vol. 2006).
- Brownstone, David and Irene Franck. Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BC to the Present (1996), Global coverage.
- Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History (2003)
- Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels.
- Chandler, David G., and Ian Frederick William Beckett, eds. The Oxford history of the British army (Oxford UP, 2003).
- Cole, D. H and E. C Priestley. An outline of British military history, 1660–1936 (1936). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84368 online]
- Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present (1993).
- Fortescue, John William. History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28j.w.%20fortescue%29 Available online for downloading]; [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7073893M/A_history_of_the_British_army. online volumes]; The standard highly detailed full coverage of operations.
- Haswell, Jock, and John Lewis-Stempel. A Brief History of the British Army (2017).
- Higham, John, ed. A Guide to the Sources of British Military History (1971) 654 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOGoCgAAQBAJ&q=George+Clark++Later+Stuarts+1660-1714 excerpt]; Highly detailed bibliography and discussion up to 1970; includes local and naval forces.
- James, Lawrence. Warrior Race: A History of the British at War (Hachette UK, 2010). [https://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Race-History-British-War/dp/0312307381/ excerpt]
- Johnson, Douglas, et al. Britain and France: Ten Centuries (1980)
- Mulligan, William, and Brendan Simms, eds. The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000 (Palgrave Macmillan; 2011) 345 pages
- {{cite book|author=Neville, Peter|title=Historical Dictionary of British Foreign Policy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVosJPY04xAC&pg=PR31|year=2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|pages=xix–xxxi|isbn=9780810873711}} timeline pp xix to xxxi
- Otte, T.G. The Makers of British Foreign Policy: From Pitt to Thatcher (2002)
- Ranft, Bryan. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy (Oxford UP, 2002).
- Rodger, N. A.M. The safeguard of the sea: A naval history of Britain, 660–1649 (Vol. 1. 1998). [https://www.amazon.com/Safeguard-Sea-History-Britain-660-1649/dp/0393319601/ excerpt]
- Rodger, N.A.M.The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815 (vol 2 2006) [https://www.amazon.com/Command-Ocean-History-Britain-1649-1815/dp/0141026901/ excerpt]
- Sheppard, Eric William. A short history of the British army (1950). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81713 online]
- Ward, A.W. and G.P. Gooch, eds. The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, 1783–1919 (3 vol, 1921–23), old detailed classic; [https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory00ward vol 1, 1783–1815 ]; [https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory02warduoft vol 2, 1815–1866]; [https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory03warduoft vol 3. 1866–1919]
=Historiography=
- Messenger, Charles, ed. Reader's Guide to Military History (2001) pp 55–74 etc.; annotated guide to most important books.
- Schroeder, Paul W. "Old Wine in Old Bottles: Recent Contributions to British Foreign Policy and European International Politics, 1789–1848." Journal of British Studies 26.01 (1987): 1–25.
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