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}} }}

: {{legend2|#AF9|style="background:#AF9"|British victory|border=1px solid #AAA}}

: {{legend2|#BBF|Another result *|border=1px solid #AAA}}

: {{legend2|#F88|style="background:#F88"|British defeat|border=1px solid #AAA}}

: {{legend2|#FCE883|style="background:#FCE883"|Ongoing conflict|border=1px solid #AAA}}

*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive

Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801)

class="wikitable sortable"

! style="color: white; background:#b0313f" width=20% | Conflict

! style="color: white; background:gray" width=20%| Britain and allies

! style="color: white; background:gray" width=20%| Britain's opposition

! style="color: white; background:green" width=40%| Outcome

The Great Northern War
(1700–1721)

| {{Flagicon|Sweden|1562}} Swedish Empire

{{flag|Ottoman Empire}}

{{flag|United Provinces}}

17px Brunswick-Lüneburg
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} (After 1717)

|{{Flagdeco|Russian Empire}} Tsardom of Russia

25px Cossack Hetmanate

{{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

  • Britain did not gain or lose anything from the war and had exited the war a year before it ended due to financial trouble.

Russian–allied victory:

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

  • Treaty of Utrecht
  • Philip V recognized as King of Spain by the Grand Alliance
  • Territory in Canada and the West Indies ceded from France
  • Territory in Europe ceded from Spain
  • Indecisive or failure for Britain's various allies
Post-Spanish Succession Caribbean piracy
(1715–1726)

| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

| 23px Anglo-American-Caribbean privateers
23px Republic of Pirates

|style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

{{Collapsible list

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| 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)

Jacobite rising of 1715

including

| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

| {{flagicon image|Jacobite Standard 1715.svg}} Jacobites

|style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

  • Jacobite restoration attempt defeated
The War of the Quadruple Alliance

including

| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

{{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}}

{{flag|Dutch Republic}}
{{flagcountry|Duchy of Savoy}}

| {{flagicon|Spain|1701}} Spain

Jacobites

|style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory:

  • Royal navy won a battle; a small-scale Jacobite invasion was defeated
  • Treaty of The Hague:
  • Spanish attempt at expansion fails.
Dummer's War
(1721–1725)

|File:New England combo flag.svg New England Colonies
Mohawk

|Wabanaki Confederacy

|style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

  • Britain recognises the rights of the region's indigenous inhabitants.
The War of Jenkins' Ear
(1739–1748)

Location: New Granada, Caribbean, Florida,
Georgia, North Carolina, Pacific and Atlantic

|{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

| {{flagicon|Spain|1701}} Spain

|style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive/other outcome

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
(1745–1746)

| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

| {{flagicon image|Jacobite Standard (1745).svg}} Jacobites

|style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

  • Jacobite restoration attempt defeated
Father Le Loutre's War
(1749–1755)

| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}}
{{flagicon image|Wabanaki Wampum Alliance Belt.png}} Wabanaki Confederacy

|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
Forces of Nasir Jang Mir Ahmad
Forces of Mohamed Ali Khan Walajan

| {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} French East India Company
Forces of Chanda Shahib
Forces of Muhyi ad-Din Muzaffar Jang Hidayat

|style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory

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 of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg}} Iroquois Confederacy

{{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)

Catawba

Mingo

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
{{flagicon image|Flag of the Principality of Bengal (15th-18th century).svg}} Bengal Subah
{{flagicon image|Wabanaki Wampum Alliance Belt.png}} Wabanaki Confederacy

Miꞌkmaq

Algonquin

Ojibwe

Odawa

Shawnee

Lenape (until 1758)

Wyandot of Fort Detroit (French supported faction)

|style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory

  • Treaty of Paris
  • Extensive North American lands (incl. all of
    Canada) ceded from France
  • Caribbean colonies ceded from France
  • Senegal River colony (excluding Gorée) ceded
    from France
  • Florida ceded from Spain
  • French trading posts in India administered by British
  • Sumatra ceded from France
Anglo-Cherokee War
(1758–1761)

| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

| Cherokee

|style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

Tacky's War
(1760–1761)

| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}
{{flagd|Kingdom of Great Britain}} Colony of Jamaica
Jamaican Maroons

| Jamaican Cromanty

|style="background:#AF9"|British–allied victory

  • Slave revolt suppressed
Bengal War
(1763–1765)

|{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company

|25x25px Mughal Empire

|style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

Pontiac's Rebellion
(1763–1766)

|{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

|Native American Coalition:

|style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome

  • British policy change
  • British suzerainty over First Nation Tribes
  • Niagara Falls area ceded from Seneca Nation
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

  • Hyderabad cedes territory to Mysore
First Rohilla War
(1773–1774)

| 23px Oudh State
{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company

| {{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

  • Treaty of Salbai.{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdXnVOKKkssC&pg=PA226|title=The First Anglo-Maratha War, 1774–1783: A Military Study of Major Battles|page=226|author=M. R. Kantak|others= quote: "Inspite of British superiority in the military science, the British troops could not force a decisive win over the Maratha troops in the First Anglo-Maratha War. The ultimate result of the War showed that the two sides remained evenly balanced."|isbn=9788171546961|year=1993|publisher=Popular Prakashan }}{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYoHOqC7Yx4C&pg=PA290|others=quote: "First Anglo-Maratha War...The war ends inconclusively."|title=Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture|author=John Bowman|page=290|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231500043|date=2000-09-05}}
  • Maratha support for Britain against Mysore
* American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
  • Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
  • Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783)
  • | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

    Iroquois

    Cherokee

    {{flagicon image|Flag of Hanover (1692).svg}} Hanover

    Loyalists

    | {{flagu|United States|1777}}
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}}

    {{flagicon|Spain|1748}} Spain

    {{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Vermont_Republic.svg}} Vermont Republic

    Oneida tribe

    Tuscarora tribe

    Watauga Association

    Catawba tribe

    |style="background:#F88"|American–allied victory

    • Treaty of Paris
    • 13 North American colonies recognised as the independent United States of America
    • Territory in North America ceded to the newly independent United States of America
    • Senegal River colony returned to France
    • French recognises British suzerainty over the Gambia river
    • Territory in India returned to France
    • British retention and creation of British North America
    • Menorca ceded to Spain
    • East & West Florida ceded to Spain
    Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
    (1780–1783)

    | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

    | {{flagcountry|Dutch Republic}}
    {{Flag|Dutch East India Company}}
    {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} France

    |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

    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
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

    |{{flagicon image|Flag of the 1st and 2nd Saudi State.svg}} Emirate of Diriyah

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British–allied victory

    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
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

    | {{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}}

    • Saudi retreat from Kuwait.
    War of the First Coalition
    (1793–1797)

    | {{flagicon|Dutch Republic}} Dutch Republic
    (until 1795)Left the war after signing the Treaty of The Hague (1795) with France.
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}Including the Army of Condé
    {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} (until 1797)Nominally the Holy Roman Empire, under Austrian rule, also encompassed many other Italian states, such as the File:Ducado de Modena (antes de 1830).svg Duchy of Modena and the File:Flag of Massa and Carrara.svg Duchy of Massa. Left the war after signing the Treaty of Campo Formio with France.

    {{flagicon|Papal States|old}} Papal States (until 1797)Left the war after signing the Treaty of Tolentino with France.
    {{flagcountry|Duchy of Parma}} (until 1796)
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Portugal|1750}}
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Prussia|1750}} (until 1795)
    {{flagdeco|Kingdom of Sardinia|1785}} Sardinia (until 1796)Left the war after signing the Treaty of Paris with France.
    {{flagicon|ESP|1785}} Spain (until 1795)
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Naples|1738}} (until 1796)
    Other Italian states

    File:Civil Ensign of Switzerland.svg Switzerland

    | {{flagicon|Kingdom of the French}} Kingdom of France (until 1792)
    {{flagicon|French First Republic}} French Republic (from 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

    Second Rohilla War
    (1794)

    | 23px Oudh State
    {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company

    | {{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}}
    British Jamaica

    | Jamaican Maroons

    | 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
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}
    from 1801:{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}

    | Dharug
    Eora
    Tharawal
    Gandangara
    {{Flagicon image|Green harp flag of Ireland 17th century.svg}} Irish-convict sympathisers

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory

    • Displacement of Aborigines from their land
    Anglo-Spanish War
    (1796–1808)

    Location: Newfoundland, English Channel,
    Straits of Gibraltar, Balearic Islands, Atlantic Ocean,
    Caribbean, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

    | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}
    from 1801: {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}

    | {{flagdeco|Spain|1785}} Spain
    {{flagdeco|France|1794}} French Republic

    | style="Background:#BBF" |Inconclusive or other outcome

    Kandyan Wars
    (1796–1818)

    | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}
    from 1801: {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}

    | 25px Kingdom of Kandy

    | 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.
    {{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}Left the war signing the treaty of Paris.
    {{flag|Ottoman Empire|1793}}Including the Mamluks and the Barbary Coast. Left the war signing the Treaty of Paris (1802) with France.
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Naples|1738}} (until 1801)Left the war signing the Treaty of Florence with France.
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Portugal|1750}}Left the war signing the Treaty of Badajoz (1801) with Spain and the Treaty of Madrid (1801) with France.
    {{flagdeco|Kingdom of Sardinia|1785}} SardiniaFollowing the refusal to enter in alliance against the Two Sicilies, France declared war on both Naples and Piedmont-Sardinia the same day, 6 December. The Piedmontese Republic was proclaimed on 10 December 1798. The Sardinian king Charles Emmanuel IV fled to Cagliari.

    | {{flag|French First Republic|name=French Republic}}
    {{flagicon|Spain|1785}} Spain
    French client republics:And other supporting soldiers as the Polish Legions and some Mamluks in captivity.

    |style="Background:#F88"|French victory

    Treaty of Lunéville, Treaty of Amiens

    Irish Rebellion of 1798
    (1798)

    | {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}
    {{Flag|Kingdom of Ireland}}

    | {{flagicon image|Green harp flag of Ireland.svg}} Irish Republic
    {{flagicon image|Flag of Leinster.svg}} United Irishmen
    {{flagicon image|Flag of Leinster.svg}} Defenders
    {{flagicon|France}} French Republic

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    • Rebellion defeated
    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

    • Complete annexation of Mysore by Britain and allies
    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

    • Rebel leaders Kattabomman Nayak, Subramania Pillai and Soundra Pandian Nayak executed
    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

    |Polygars

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922)

    class="wikitable sortable"

    ! style="color: white; background:#b0313f" width=20% | Conflict

    ! style="color: white; background:grey" width=20% | Britain and allies

    ! style="color: white; background:grey" width=20% | Britain's opposition

    ! style="color: white; background:green" width=40% | Outcome

    Temne War
    (1801–1807)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    Susu tribes

    | Kingdom of Koya

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory

    • Northern shore of Sierra Leone ceded by Koya
    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

    • Extensive territory in India ceded by the Maratha Empire
    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

    • Territory captured from Kandy
    Civil War:

    Emmet's Insurrection
    (1803)

    |{{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

    • Rebellion defeated
    British Expedition to Ceylon
    (1803)

    | {{flag|Dutch Republic}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | Chiefdom of Vanni
    {{flag|Kingdom of Kandy}}

    |style="background:#AF9"| British Allied victory

    • Vanni region lost to the British
    • The last Tamil resistance against colonial rule was crushed.
    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

    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

    Confederation of the Rhine

    • {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Bavaria}}
    • {{flag|Württemberg}}

    {{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

    Treaties of Tilsit:

    • French victory
    • Half of Prussia ceded to French allies
    • Russia exits the war
    • Anglo-Russian War begins
    Ashanti–Fante War
    (1806–1807)

    | Fante Confederacy
    {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}

    | {{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

    • Treaty of the Dardanelles
    • Commercial and legal concessions to British interests within the Ottoman Empire
    • Promise to protect the empire against French encroachment
    Gunboat War
    (1807–1814)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flagicon|Denmark}} Denmark–Norway

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Anglo-Russian War
    (1807–1812)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flag|Russian Empire}}

    |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome

    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

    • Treaty of Paris
    • Bourbon dynasty restored
    • Tobago, St. Lucia, Mauritius ceded from France
    • All other French possessions restored as per 1792 borders
    • Abolition of French Slave Trade
    • Swiss independence
    Travancore Rebellion
    (1808–1809)

    | File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg East India Company

    | {{flag|Travancore}}
    Kingdom of Cochin

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    War of the Fifth Coalition
    (1809)

    | {{flag|Austrian Empire}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    {{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
    {{flag|Russian Empire}}

    22px Warsaw

    Confederation of the Rhine

    • {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Bavaria}}
    • {{flagicon image|State flag of Saxony before 1815.svg}} Saxony
    • {{flag|Württemberg}}
    • {{flagicon|Westphalia}} Westphalia

    {{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

    Persian Gulf campaign of 1809
    (1809)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}

    | 22x22px Al Qasimi

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    4th Xhosa War
    (1811–1812)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{Flag|Cape Colony}}

    | 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}}

    Tecumseh's confederacy

    | {{flagicon|United States|1795}} United States

    |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome

    Treaty of Ghent; Status quo ante bellum with no boundary changes

    • United States invasions of British Canada repulsed. All Pre-War borders restored under the Treaty of Ghent
    • British invasions of the United States repulsed. All pre-war borders restored under the Treaty of Ghent
    War of the Sixth Coalition
    (1812–1814)

    | Original Coalition
    {{flag|Russian Empire}}
    {{flag|Prussia|1803}}
    {{flag|Austrian Empire}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
    {{SWE}}
    {{flag|Spain|1785}}
    {{flag|Portugal|1750}}
    {{flag|Two Sicilies}}
    {{flag|Kingdom of Sardinia}}

    After Battle of Leipzig

    • {{flagicon image|State flag of Saxony before 1815.svg}} Saxony
    • {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Bavaria}}
    • {{flag|Württemberg}}
    • {{flagicon|Netherlands}} United Netherlands

    | {{flag|First French Empire}}

    • {{flag|Napoleonic Italy}}
    • {{flag|Kingdom of Naples|1811}}
    • File:Flag of the Duchy of Warsaw.svg Duchy of Warsaw{{efn|Duchy of Warsaw as a state was in effect fully occupied by Russian and Prussian forces by May 1813, though most Poles remained loyal to Napoleon.}}

    Until January 1814

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British–allied victory

    Anglo-Nepalese War
    (1814–1816)

    | {{Flag|East India Company}}

    | 22x22px Kingdom of Nepal

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Second Kandyan War
    (1815)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flagicon image|King of Kandy.svg}} Kandy

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Kandyan Convention:

    • Dissolution of the Kandy royal line
    • British King declared King of Kandy
    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

    Treaty of Paris:

    • General French defeat
    • Restoration of the House of Bourbon
    • Abolition of the slave trade (all signatories)
    • ₣100,000,000 compensation from France
    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}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom of the Netherlands|name=Netherlands}}

    | {{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

    • Virtually all territory south of the Sutlej River controlled by Britain
    Paika Rebellion (1817–1818)

    |{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company

    |Bhoi dynasty

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    • End of Paika rule
    • East India Company establishes rule over Odisha and the Paikas
    Persian Gulf campaign of 1819
    (1819)

    | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
    22px Omani Empire

    | 22px Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Greek War of Independence
    (1821–1829)

    |1821:
    File:Filiki Eteria flag.svg Filiki Eteria
    File:Flag of Greece (1821).svg Greek revolutionaries
    After 1822:
    22px Hellenic Republic


    {{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

    }}

    |23px Ottoman Empire

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    • First Hellenic Republic established and recognized
    First Anglo-Ashanti War
    (1823–1831)

    |{{flag|British Empire}}

    |{{flag|Ashanti Empire}}

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Bathurst War
    (1824)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | Wiradjuri

    |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

    Treaty of Yandabo:

    • Assam, Manipur, Rakhine, and Taninthayi coast south of Salween river ceded from Burma
    • £1,000,000 compensation from Burma
    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

    • Destruction of large parts of Berbera
    • Indemnity agreed upon for 1825 Habr Awal attack
    • Crucial caravan trade halted temporarily
    Revolt of the Mercenaries
    (1828)

    | {{flagicon|Empire of Brazil}} Brazil
    {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    File:Flag of France.svg France

    | {{flagicon|Germany}} German Mercenaries
    {{flagicon|Ireland}} Irish Mercenaries

    |style="background:#AF9"| British Allied victory

    • Mutiny suppressed
    Ahom Rebellion
    (1828)

    | {{Flag|East India Company}}

    | 23px Ahom dynasty

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Bathurst Rebellion
    (1830)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | Bushrangers

    |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}}

    | Kingdom of Niumi

    |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome

    Baptist War
    (1831–1832)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    Colony of Jamaica

    | Rebel slaves

    |style="background:#AF9"| British victory

    • Slave defeat
    • Rebellion suppressed
    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

    • British control of the Falkland Islands
    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:

    • {{flagicon image|Flag of New Spain.svg}} Forces of Infante Carlos
    • {{flagicon image|Flag Portugal (1707).svg}} Forces of King Miguel

    | style="Background:#BBF" |Inconclusive or other outcome

    Coorg War
    (1834)

    | {{Flag|East India Company}}

    | Kingdom of Coorg

    | 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 Upper Canada

    {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Province of Lower Canada

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of the Patriote movement (Lower Canada).svg}} Patriotes
    Hunters' Lodges
    Reform movement

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory

    Pastry War
    (1838–1839)
    also known First Franco–Mexican War

    | {{flagu|France|size=23px}}
    {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|size=23px}}

    | {{flag|Mexico|1823|size=23px}}

    | style="Background:#AF9" | British Victory

    • Mexican government accepts to pay the 600,000 pesos
    First Anglo-Afghan War
    (1838–1842)

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company
    Durrani Kingdom
    Maimana Khanate
    Khulm (August 1840 for mere days, September 1840-November 1841)
    Sadozai loyalists

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan pre-1901.svg}} Emirate of Kabul
    Principality of Qandahar
    Khanate of Kalat
    Khulm (August 1840, November 1841 onwards.)
    Marri
    Bugti
    Afghan Tribes
    Barakzai Loyalists

    | style="Background:#F88" |Barakzai Afghan victory

    • British retreat from Afghanistan
    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
    {{flag|British Empire}}

    | File:Flag of Egypt 19th century.svg Egypt Eyalet
    {{Flagicon|France}} Kingdom of the French
    {{Flagicon|Spain|1785}} Spain

    | style="background:#AF9" | British Allied victory

    • Egypt renounced its claim to Syria.
    First Opium War
    (1839–1842)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flag|Qing dynasty|1862}}

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory

    Treaty of Nanking:

    • Five Chinese ports open to foreign trade
    • $21,000,000 compensation from the Qing Empire
    • Hong Kong Island ceded from the Qing Empire
    Newport Rising
    (1839)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | Chartists

    | 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}}

    | 22x22px Gwalior State

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Flagstaff War
    (1845–1846)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Colony of New Zealand

    | 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 France (1794–1815, 1830–1974).svg Kingdom of France

    | File:Flag of the Argentine Confederation.svg Argentine Confederation

    |style="Background:#F88"|Argentine Confederation victory

    First Anglo-Sikh War
    (1845–1846)

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company
    25px Patiala State

    | Sikh Empire

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    Treaty of Lahore:

    • Extensive territory ceded from the Sikh Empire
    • Partial control over Sikh foreign affairs
    Hutt Valley campaign
    (1846)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Colony of New Zealand

    | Ngāti Toa

    |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}}
    {{Flag|Cape Colony}}

    | Xhosa tribes

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Territory ceded from Xhosa

    Whanganui campaign
    (1847)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Colony of New Zealand

    | Māori

    |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome

    Caste War of Yucatán
    (1847–1901)

    | {{flag|Mexico|1823|size=23px}}
    {{flagicon image|Flag of the Republic of Yucatan.svg|size=23px}} Republic of Yucatán
    {{flag|Guatemala|1843|size=23px}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom|size=23px}}
    {{flag|British Honduras|size=23px}}

    | Maya

    |style="Background:#AF9"| British Allied victory

    • Republic of Yucatán rejoins the United Mexican States in 1848
    • Mayas achieve an independent state from 1847 to 1883
    • Mexico recaptures Yucatán
    • Conflict between the Mexicans and the Mayans continued until 1933
    Second Anglo-Sikh War
    (1848–1849)

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} East India Company

    | Sikh Empire

    |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}}
    {{Flag|Qing dynasty|1862}}
    Nguyễn dynasty

    | 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}}
    {{Flag|Cape Colony}}

    | Xhosa tribes

    Khoikhoi tribes

    {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Native Kafir Police

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Xhosa-Khoi attacks defeated

    Status quo ante bellum

    Taiping Rebellion
    (1850–1864)

    | {{flag|Qing dynasty|1862}}
    {{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}
    {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

    | Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British Allied victory

    Eureka Rebellion
    (1851–1854)
  • Battle of the Eureka Stockade
  • | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Colony of Victoria

    | {{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
    {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    {{flag|Ottoman Empire}}

    {{flag|Kingdom of Sardinia}}

    | {{Flag|Russian Empire}}

    {{flagicon|Bulgaria}} Bulgarian Legion

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British Allied victory

    Treaty of Paris

    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|United States}}
    Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
    Shanghai Volunteer Corps

    |{{flag|Qing dynasty|1862}}
    {{flagicon image|Pirate Flag of Rack Rackham.svg}}(A-Pak Pirate Mercenary Fleet)

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    Second Opium War
    (1856–1860)

    Arrow War

    | {{flagicon|France}} French Empire
    {{Flag|United States}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flag|Qing dynasty|1862}}

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    The Treaty of Tientsin:

    • Kowloon ceded from the Qing Empire
    • Peking opened to foreign trade
    • 11 more Chinese ports opened to foreign trade
    • Yangtze River opened to foreign warships
    • 4,000,000 taels of silver compensation
    • China banned from referring to subjects of the crown as barbarians
    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

    16px Nepal

    Jammu and Kashmir

    {{Collapsible list

    |bullets = yes

    |title =Princely states

    |22px Jaipur

    |22px Bikaner

    |22px Marwar

    |22px Rampur

    |22px Kapurthala

    |22px Nabha

    |22px Bhopal

    |22px Sirohi

    |25px Udaipur

    |22px Patiala

    |22px Sirmur

    |22px Alwar

    |22px Bharathpur

    |22px Bundi

    |22px Jaora

    |22px Bijawar

    |25px Ajaigarh

    |22px Rewa

    |22px Kendujhar

    |22px Hyderabad

    }}

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg}} Sepoys of the East India Company

    {{noflag}} Mughal Empire

    22px Awadh

    22px Jhansi

    7 Princely states

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    Act for the Better Government of India:

    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|United Kingdom}} Colony of New Zealand

    | {{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_United_Tribes_of_New_Zealand.svg}} Kīngitanga

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Shimonoseki campaign
    (1863–1864)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{Flag|Second French Empire|name=French Empire}}
    {{Flag|Kingdom of the Netherlands|name=Netherlands}}
    {{Flag|United States|1863}}

    | 20px Chōshū Domain

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    Bombardment of Kagoshima
    (1863)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | 22px Satsuma Domain

    |style="background:#AF9"| British victory

    • Tactical stalemate and mitigated British victory
    Ambela campaign
    (1863–1864)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | {{Flag|State of Swat}}
    24px Yusufzai

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Tauranga campaign
    (1864)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Colony of New Zealand

    | {{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
    20px Fenian Brotherhood

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    British expedition to Abyssinia
    (1867–1868)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | 23px Ethiopia

    |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:

    • 50,000 oz of gold compensation from Ashanti Empire
    • Ashanti withdrawal from coastal areas
    • Ashanti banned from practising human sacrifice
    Second Anglo-Afghan War
    (1878–1880)

    | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}}
    22px Afzalids

    | 22px Afghanistan

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British-Afzalid victory

    Treaty of Gandamak:

    • Abdur Rahman Khan installed as Emir
    • Afghanistan becomes a British protected state{{citation |first=James |last=Onley |title=The Raj Reconsidered: British India's Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa |journal=Asian Affairs |volume=11 |number=1 |date=March 2009 |url=https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf |ref={{sfnref|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009}} |access-date=2020-12-24 |archive-date=2022-10-09 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf |url-status=dead }}
    • Districts of Quetta, Pishin, Sibi, Harnai and Thal Chotiali ceded to British India{{cite book |editor1-last=Blood |editor1-first=Peter R |title=Pakistan: A Country Study |date=1996 |pages=20–21 |publisher=Diane Publishing |isbn=9780788136313}}
    Anglo-Zulu War
    (1879)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Natal

    | Zulu 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}} Khedivate of Egypt

    | {{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed Urabi

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    • 'Urabi's forces defeated and exiled
    Basuto Gun War
    (1880–1881)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
    {{Flag|Cape Colony}}

    | Basuto people

    |style="Background:#F88"|Basuto victory

    • Basuto people maintain their partial autonomy
    • British failure to disarm the Basuto people
    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

    Pretoria Convention:

    • South African Republic granted self-government
    Mahdist War
    (1881–1899)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} Italy
    {{flagicon|Ethiopian Empire}} Ethiopian Empire
    {{flag|Congo Free State}}
    {{flagdeco|Egypt|1882}} Egypt

    | {{Flag|Mahdist State}}

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    • Britain and Egypt took over Sudan and turned it into a condominium known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
    • Kassala temporarily occupied by Italy
    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}}
    {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}}

    |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}}

    | 22px Kingdom of Manipur

    |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

    |Ndebele Kingdom

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Chitral Expedition (1895)

    |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
    {{Flag|British Raj|name=India}}

    Pro–British Chitralis

    {{flagicon image|Flag of the State of Dir 2.svg}} Dir state

    |Pashtuns

    Chitralis

    |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

    • Pro-British Sultan installed
    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}}
    {{Flag|British Raj|name=India}}

    |Waziris

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Siege of Malakand (1897)

    |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}

    |Pashtuns

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Tirah campaign (1897–1898)

    |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
    {{Flag|British Raj|name=India}}

    |Pashtuns

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Mohmand campaign (1897–1898)

    |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
    {{Flag|British Raj|name=India}}

    |24x24px Mohmand

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Cretan Revolt (1897–1898)

    | 22px Cretan revolutionaries
    22px Kingdom of Greece
    {{Flag|British Empire}}
    {{flagcountry|French Third Republic}}
    {{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} Italy
    {{Flag|Russian Empire}}
    {{flag|Austria-Hungary}} (until 12 April 1898)
    {{flag|German Empire}} (until 16 March 1898)

    | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}}

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory

    • Establishment of the Cretan State.
    • Withdraw of Ottoman forces from Crete.
    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
    Orakzai tribe
    Chamkani 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

    Boxer Protocol:

    • Anti-foreign societies banned in China
    Second Boer War
    (1899–1902)

    |{{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}

    | {{Flag|South African Republic}}
    {{Flag|Orange Free State}}

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Treaty of Vereeniging:

    • All Boers to surrender arms and swear allegiance to the Crown
    • Dutch language permitted in education
    • Promise to grant Boer republics self-government
    • £3,000,000 compensation "reconstruction aid" to Afrikaners
    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

    • Capture of Yaa Asentawaa and banishment to the Seychelles
    • Ashanti territories become part of Gold Coast colony in 1902
    • Ashanti retain control of the Golden Stool
    Somaliland campaign
    (1900–1920)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy}}
    {{flag|Ethiopian Empire|name=Ethiopia}} (1900–1904)

    | {{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}}

    | 16px Aro Confederacy

    |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
    {{flagicon image|Kano flag.svg}} Kano Emirate

    |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

    Status quo ante bellum

    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 Muscat.svg}} Muscat and Oman

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of The Imamate of Oman.svg}} Imamate of Oman

    |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome

    First World War
    (1914–1918)

    | Allied Powers

    {{flagu|France|size=23px}}

    {{flag|British Empire|size=23px}}

    • {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom|size=23px}}
    • {{flag|Canada|1868|size=23px}}
    • {{flag|Newfoundland|size=23px}}
    • {{flag|Australia|size=23px}}
    • {{flag|New Zealand|size=23px}}
    • {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India|size=23px}}
    • {{flagcountry|Union of South Africa|1912|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}}

    Other Allies

    | Central Powers

    {{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

    Treaty of Versailles:

    • German demobilisation

    Treaties of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Trianon:

    Russia pulls out in 1917

    • Russian Civil War
    • Creation of the Soviet Union

    Creation of League of Nations:

    Operations in the Tochi
    (1914–1915)

    | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}}

    | Khost tribesmen

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Chilembwe uprising
    (1915)

    | {{Flag|British Empire}}

    • {{flagicon image|Flag of Nyasaland (1914–1919).svg}} Nyasaland

    | Nyasaland rebels

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Kelantan Rebellion
    (1915)

    | {{flagicon|UKGBI}} British Empire

    | Kelantanese rebels

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    • Uprising suppressed
    Peshawar campaign
    (1915)

    | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}}

    | Mohmands, Bunerwals and Swatis

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Bussa Rebellion
    (1915)

    | {{flag|British Empire}}

    • {{flag|British Nigeria}}

    | Bussa rebels

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    • Rebellion suppressed
    Invasion of Darfur
    (1916)

    | {{Flag|British Empire}}
    {{Flag|Sultanate of Egypt}}

    | Sultanate of Darfur

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    Easter Rising
    (1916)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}

    | {{Flag|Irish Republic|1916}}
    {{flagicon image|Starry Plough flag (with fringe).svg}} Irish Citizen Army
    20px Irish Volunteers
    {{flagicon image|Sunburst Flag.svg}} Fianna Éireann
    Cumann na mBan
    Hibernian Rifles

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    • Uprising suppressed
    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}}

    | Kuki tribes

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Adubi War
    (1918)

    | {{ubl |{{flagicon|UKGBI}} British forces

    | Egba rebels

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British victory

    • Uprising suppressed
    Estonian War of Independence
    (1918–1920)

    | {{flag|Estonia}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
    {{flag|Latvia}}
    {{flagicon|Russia}} White movement
    {{flagicon image|Flag of Baltic Germans.svg}} Baltic German volunteers{{cite book| last1 = Thomas| first1 = Nigel| last2 = Boltowsky| first2 = Toomas| title = Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918–20| publisher = Osprey Publishing| date = 2019| location = Oxford| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=HnmGDwAAQBAJ| isbn = 9781472830777| page=20}}
    {{flagicon|Denmark}} Danish volunteers
    {{flagicon|Finland|1918}} Finnish volunteers
    {{flagicon|Sweden}} Swedish volunteers

    | {{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

    • Independence of Estonia
    • Vidzeme gained by the Republic of Latvia
    Latvian War of Independence
    (1918–1920)

    | {{flag|Latvia}}
    {{flag|Estonia}}
    {{flagicon|Russia}} White movement
    {{flag|Poland}}
    {{flag|Lithuania}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}

    | {{flag|German Empire}}
    {{flagicon image|WestRussianVolunteerArmy.svg}} West Russian Volunteer Army

    ----

    {{flagu|Russian SFSR|1918}}
    {{flag|Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic|name=Latvian SSR}}

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    • Independence of Latvia
    Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
    (1918–1920)

    | {{flagicon|Russia|size=23px}} White movement

    {{flag|British Empire|size=23px}}

    • {{flagu|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom|size=23px}}
    • {{Flag|Canada|1868|size=23px}}
    • {{Flag|Australia|size=23px}}
    • {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India|size=23px}}
    • {{flagcountry|Union of South Africa|1912|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

    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

    Anglo-Irish Treaty

    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}}
    {{flagcountry|French Third Republic}}
    {{flagcountry|Democratic Republic of Armenia}} (in 1920)
    {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}
    {{flagcountry|Ottoman Empire|1823}} (until 1922)

    {{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] }}
    {{flagicon image|Flag of Azerbaijan SSR (1921-1922).svg}} Azerbaijan SSR
    {{flagicon image|Flag of Georgian SSR (1921-1922).svg}} Georgian SSR
    {{flagicon image|Flag of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.svg}} Bukharan PSR
    {{flagdeco|Emirate of Afghanistan}} Afghanistan
    {{flagicon image|Flag of Muslim League.svg}} All-India Muslim League

    {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy}}

    |style="background:#F88"| Turkish Allied victory

    Treaty of Lausanne

    Kuwait–Najd War
    (1919–1920)

    | File:Flag of Kuwait (1914-1921).svg Kuwait
    {{flag|British Empire}}

    • {{flag|British Raj|name=India}}

    | {{flagdeco|Saudi Arabia|1824}} Sultanate of Nejd

    • {{flagicon image|Flag of Ikhwan.svg}} Ikhwan{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=Fighting+between+Kuwait%27s+forces+and+Wahhabi+supporters+of+Ibn+Sa%27ud+broke+out+in+May+1920%2c+and+the+former+were+soundly+defeated.#q=Fighting+between+Kuwait's+forces+and+Wahhabi+supporters+of+Ibn+Sa'ud+broke+out+in+May+1920%2C+and+the+former+were+soundly+defeated.&tbm=bks|title=Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East – Volume 1|author1=Reeva S. Simon |author2=Philip Mattar |author3=Richard W. Bulliet |year=1996|pages=119|quote=Fighting between Kuwait's forces and Wahhabi supporters of Ibn Sa'ud broke out in May 1920, and the former were soundly defeated. Within a few weeks, the citizens of Kuwait constructed a new wall to protect Kuwait City.}}

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    Waziristan campaign
    (1919–1920)

    | {{flagcountry|British Raj|name=India}}

    | Waziristan

    |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

    • Greater autonomy given to Iraq
    • Faysal ibn Husayn installed as King
    • British Mandate for Mesopotamia cancelled
    Waziristan campaign (1921–1924)

    |{{flag|British Empire}}

    • {{flag|British Raj|name=India}}

    |Waziristan

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    1922 Burao tax revolt
    (1922)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    {{*}}{{flag|British Somaliland}}

    | Habr Yoonis tribesmen

    | style="background:#F88" |Tribal victory

    • Tax policy abandoned
    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

    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1922–present)

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    style="color: white; background:#b0313f" width=20% | Conflict

    ! style="color: white; background:gray" width=20% | Britain and allies

    ! style="color: white; background:gray" width=20% | Britain's opposition

    ! style="color: white; background:green" width=40% | Outcome

    Adwan Rebellion
    (1923)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|Jordan|23px}} Emir Abdullah's forces
    {{flagicon|Jordan|23px}} Hashemite allied tribesmen:

    • Sheykh Minwar al-Hadid

    | {{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}}

    |Mahsud

    |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 Nejd (1926).svg}}{{flagicon image|Flag of Hejaz 1920.svg}} Nejd and Hejaz
    {{flagicon image|Flag of the United Kingdom.svg}} RAF

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of Ikhwan.svg}} Ikhwan

    |style="Background:#AF9"| British Allied victory

    • Ikhwan attack on Kuwait repelled.
    • The remnants of the Ikhwan incorporated into regular Saudi units.
    • The Ikhwan leadership was either slain or imprisoned.
    Mohmand campaign (1935)

    |{{flag|British Empire}}

    • {{flag|British Raj|name=India}}

    |24x24px Mohmand

    {{flagicon|Kingdom of Afghanistan}} Kingdom of Afghanistan

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    • Revolt suppressed
    Great Arab Revolt in Palestine
    (1936–1939)

    | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|Israel}} Yishuv

    | {{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 }}

    • Revolt suppressed
    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

    S-Plan
    16 January 1939 – March 1940

    | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flagicon|Ireland}} Irish Republican Army

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory Crowley, pg 809

    • British victory
    • IRA failed to force the withdrawal of British troops from Ireland
    Second World War
    (1939–1945)

    | Allied Powers

    {{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

    | Axis Powers

    {{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}}
    {{Flag|Soviet Union|1936}}

    | {{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

    • IRA campaign failure
    Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947
    (1944–1947)

    |{{Flag|Kingdom of Afghanistan|name=Afghanistan}}
    {{*}}Allied Nuristani tribesmen
    {{Flag|British Empire}}
    {{*}}{{Flag|British Raj|name=British India}}

    |Rebel tribes:

    |style="Background:#AF9"|Afghan government & British victory

    • Rebel invasion of India in 1944 repelled
    • Rebels fully defeated by Afghan government in January 1947
    1944–45 Insurgency in Balochistan
    (1944–1945)

    |{{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    |Badinzai rebels

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    • Insurgency subsided by March 1945
    Dekemvriana
    (1944–1945)

    | {{flagdeco|Greece|royal}} Kingdom of Greece
    {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg}} National Liberation Front (Greece)
    {{flagicon image|Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg}} ELAS

    |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
    Sheikh Bashir killed, unrest continues, anti-colonialist and nationalist sentiment increases in Somaliland

    Indonesian National Revolution
    (1945–1949)

    | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagcountry|Netherlands}}

    {{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

    • Hand over to Dutch in 1946
    • Netherlands recognises Indonesian Independence
    Operation Masterdom
    (1945–1946)

    | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    • {{flagcountry|British Raj}}

    {{flagdeco|France|1794}} France

    {{Flagdeco|Empire of Japan}} Empire of Japan

    | {{flagicon|North Vietnam|1945}} Việt Minh

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British Allied victory

    Greek Civil War
    (1946–1948)

    | {{flag|Kingdom of Greece}}

    {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    {{flagu|United States|1912}}

    | D.S.E. (Δ.Σ.Ε.)

    {{flag|Albania}}

    {{flag|Yugoslavia}}

    {{flag|Bulgaria}}

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory
    Communist forces defeated, many D.S.E. soldiers exiled in Eastern Europe.
    Battalion of UK troops still in Greece until 1948

    Corfu Channel incident
    (1946–1948)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flag|People's Socialist Republic of Albania|name=Albania}}

    |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome

    • World Court case concluded in 1949{{cite book |title=Italy and Albania: financial relations in the Fascist period |last=Roselli |first=Alessandro |year=2006 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn= 9781845112547|pages=136–137 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iv-iW3WGDvIC&pg=PA136 |access-date=30 May 2010}}
    • Britain breaks off talks aimed at establishing diplomatic relations with Albania.
    Malayan Emergency
    (1948–1960)

    | {{flagicon|British Empire}} British Commonwealth

    • {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
    • {{flagicon|Malaya}} Federation of Malaya
    • {{Flag|Australia}}
    • {{Flag|New Zealand}}
    • {{flag|Southern Rhodesia}}
    • {{flag|Fiji}}
    • {{flag|British East Africa|name=Kenya}}

    {{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

    • Destruction of the majority of MNLA guerrilla organisations, Communist leadership retreat to Thailand
    • Preservation of capitalism and British economic interests
    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|United Kingdom|size=23px}}
    • {{flag|Canada|1921|size=23px}}
    • {{flag|Australia|size=23px}}
    • {{flag|New Zealand|size=23px}}
    • {{flag|India|size=23px}}

    {{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|China|size=23px}}

    {{flag|Soviet Union|size=23px}}

    |style="Background:#BBF"|Inconclusive or other outcome

    • Korean Armistice Agreement
    • Communist invasion of South Korea repelled
    • UN invasion of North Korea repelled
    Battle of Ismailia (1952)

    |{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    |Egyptian police

    |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

    • End of British influence in Egypt
    • Independence of Sudan in 1956
    Mau Mau Uprising
    (1952–1960)

    | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    | Mau Mau

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    • Defeat of Mau Mau
    • Kenyan independence
    Opération Ajax

    (15-19 August 1953)

    |{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    {{Flag|United States}}

    | Government of Iran

    |style="Background:#AF9"|Overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh

    Jebel Akhdar War
    (1954–1959)

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of Muscat.svg}} Sultanate of Muscat and Oman
    {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flagicon image|Flag of The Imamate of Oman.svg}} Imamate of Oman

    • Ibadi sect
      {{flag|Saudi Arabia|1938}}

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory

    • Dissolution of the Imamate of Oman
    Cyprus Emergency
    (1955–1959)

    | {{flag|United Kingdom}}

    • {{flagicon image|Flag of Cyprus (1922-1960).svg}} Cyprus Colony

    ----

    {{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 }}

    • EOKA was not defeated {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MWIAgAAQBAJ&q=EOKA&pg=PT14 | title=Global Boundaries: World Boundaries Volume 1 | isbn=9781134880355 | last1=Schofield | first1=Clive H. | date=31 January 2002 | publisher=Routledge }}
    • Enosis not achieved{{sfn|French|2015|p=302}}{{cite book |last1=Novo |first1=Andrew R |title=The EOKA Cause Nationalism and the Failure of Cypriot Enosis |date=2022 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780755635344 |page=168 |quote=Defeat of the ENOSIS cause}}
    • Cyprus became an independent republic in 1959 with Britain retaining control of two Sovereign Base Areas, at Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
    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
    Egyptian political victoryTal, David (2001). The 1956 War: Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East {{ISBN|978-0-7146-4840-8}}. p 203

    • Anglo-French withdrawal following international pressure (December 1956)
    • Israeli occupation of Sinai (until March 1957)
    • UNEF deployment in Sinai{{cite book |first=Diane B. |last=Kunz |title=The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis |page=187 |isbn=0-8078-1967-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8lG54d7vzKkC&pg=PA187 |year=1991 |publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press }}
    • Straits of Tiran re-opened to Israeli shipping
    Border Campaign
    (1956–1962)

    | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    | File:Flag of Ireland (bordered).svg Irish Republican Army

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    • IRA campaign fails
    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}}

    • Iceland expands its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles
    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}}

    • {{flagicon image|Flag of the State of Upper Yafa.svg}} Upper Yafa

    | Rebels

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British victory

    Brunei Revolt
    (1962)

    | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
    {{Flag|Brunei}}
    {{Flag|Malaya}}

    | {{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|Malaysia}}
    • {{flag|United Kingdom}}
    • {{flag|Australia}}
    • {{flag|New Zealand}}

    | {{flag|Indonesia}}

    | style="Background:#AF9" |British Allied victory

    Indonesia recognises Malaysian rule over former North Borneo

    Dhofar Rebellion
    (1963–1975)

    | {{flag|Oman}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flagicon|Iran|1964}} Iran

    {{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
    Modernisation of Oman

    Aden Emergency
    (1963–1967)

    | {{flagicon|South Arabia}} Federation of South Arabia
    {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flagicon|South Yemen}} NLF
    FLOSY

    |style="Background:#F88"| Yemeni NLF victory
    People's Republic of South Yemen established

    The Troubles
    (1968–1998)

    | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    Loyalist paramilitaries:

    |

    Republican paramilitaries:

    File:StarryPlough.svg Irish National Liberation Army

    File:StarryPlough.svg Irish People's Liberation Organisation

    |style="Background:#BBF"|Stalemate

    Inconclusive or other outcome
    Good Friday Agreement:

    • Devolution in Northern Ireland
    • Power-sharing deal
    • Cross-border cooperation
    • Disarming of paramilitary groups
    • Police reform
    • Demilitarisation
    Second Cod War
    (1972–1973)

    |{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    |{{flag|Iceland}}

    |style="Background:#F88"|Icelandic victory{{efn|name=CodWars}}
    UK accept Iceland's 50 nautical mile exclusive fishery zone

    Third Cod War
    (1975–1976)

    |{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    |{{flag|Iceland}}

    |style="Background:#F88"|Icelandic victory{{efn|name=CodWars}}
    Iceland expands its exclusive fishery zone to 200 nautical miles

    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

    Multinational Force in Lebanon
    (1982–1984)

    | {{flagu|United Kingdom}}

    {{flagu|France}}

    {{flagu|United States}}

    {{flagu|Italy}}

    | Islamic Jihad Organization
    {{flagicon|Islamic Republic of Iran|size=25px}} Iran
    {{flag|Syria|size=25px}}
    {{flagicon image|Flag of the Progressive Socialist Party.svg|size=25px}} Progressive Socialist Party
    {{flagicon image|Flag of the Amal Movement.svg|size=25px}} Amal Movement

    |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}}

    • Multinational forces fail to prevent collapse of Lebanese Army into Syrian- or Israeli- supported militias{{cite web|date=September 23, 1982|title=Statement by Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/RR9_23_82.html}}{{cite news|date=March 11, 1984|title=The Collapse of Lebanon's Army: U.S. Said to Ignore Factionalism|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/11/world/the-collapse-of-lebanon-s-army-us-said-to-ignore-factionalism.html?pagewanted=all|last1=Brinkley|first1=Joel}}
    • Multinational forces evacuated after the US embassy and US Marine barracks are bombed by the Islamic Jihad Organization
    • Multinational forces oversee withdrawal of Palestine Liberation Organization
    • Humanitarian crisis in Southern Lebanon
    • Civil war continues until 1990
    • President Hafez al-Assad continues his occupation of Lebanon until his son and later president Bashar al-Assad orders a withdrawal from the country
    Gulf War
    (1990–1991)

    | {{flag|Kuwait}}

    {{Flag|United States}}

    {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    {{flag|Saudi Arabia}}

    {{Flag|France}}

    {{flag|Egypt}}

    {{flag|Syria}}

    Other Allies

    | {{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

    Dayton Accords

    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}}

    20px Kosovo Liberation Army

    | {{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}}
    {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

    | {{flagicon image|Sl RUF.png|20px}} RUF
    {{flag|Liberia}}
    {{flagicon image|Flag of Sierra Leone.svg|22px}} AFRC

    |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}}

    20px ISAF

    | {{flagicon|Afghanistan|Taliban}} Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
    {{Flag|Al-Qaeda}}

    |style="Background:#F88"|Taliban victory

    • The Taliban militia, overthrown in 2001.
    • British withdrawal in 2014.
    • Taliban regained power on 15 August 2021, after 20 years of NATO deployment.
    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

    Various insurgents

    |style="Background:#AF9"|British Allied victory:

    • Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government
    • Occupation of southern Iraq
    • Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Sectarian Violence{{cite news |title=Sectarian divisions change Baghdad's image|publisher=NBC News|date=3 July 2006|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13684759|access-date=18 February 2007}}
    • Rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq{{cite news |url=https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-jrtn-movement-and-iraq%E2%80%99s-next-insurgency |title=The JRTN Movement and Iraq's Next Insurgency | Combating Terrorism Center at West Point |publisher=Ctc.usma.edu |access-date=2014-08-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826043422/http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-jrtn-movement-and-iraq%E2%80%99s-next-insurgency |archive-date=2011-08-26 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rm/221274.htm |title=Al-Qaeda's Resurgence in Iraq: A Threat to U.S. Interests|publisher=U.S. Department of State|access-date=26 November 2010|date=5 February 2014}}
    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

    Operation Shader
    (2014–present)

    | {{flagu|United States}}
    {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
    {{flag|Iraq}}
    {{flagicon|Syria|1932}} Syrian Opposition
    {{flagu|Australia}}
    {{flagu|Belgium}}
    {{flagu|Canada}}
    {{flag|Denmark}}
    {{flagu|France}}
    {{flagu|Germany}}
    {{flagu|Italy}}
    {{flagu|Netherlands}}
    {{flagu|New Zealand}}
    {{flag|Norway}}
    {{flag|Portugal}}
    {{flagu|Spain}}
    {{flag|Turkey}}
    {{flag|Bahrain}}
    {{flag|Jordan}}
    {{flag|Morocco}}
    {{flag|Qatar}}
    {{flag|Saudi Arabia}}
    {{flag|United Arab Emirates}}
    {{flag|Rojava}}
    {{flag|Egypt}}
    {{flag|Libya}}
    {{flag|Nigeria}}
    {{flag|Cameroon}}
    {{flag|Chad}}
    {{flag|Niger}}
    {{flagu|Russia}}

    | {{flag|Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant}}
    {{flagicon image|AQMI Flag asymmetric.svg}} Boko Haram

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    {{flagicon image|Flag of the Al-Nusra Front.svg}} al-Nusra Front

    {{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} Khorasan

    ----

    {{flagicon image

    } Ahrar ash-Sham

    |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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    References

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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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