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Military history of the peoples of the British Islands

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

==List of British military encounters==
===Prehistoric and ancient period===
* [[Roman conquest of Britain]] (43)

===Mediæval period===
* [[Viking Britain|Viking invasions]] (793–1066)
** Raid on [[Lindisfarne]] (793)
** [[Alfred the Great#Public life|Campaign of Alfred the Great]] (871–899)
*** [[Battle of Edington]] (878)
** [[Battle of Cannington]] (878)
** [[Battle of Stamford Bridge]] (1066)
* [[Norman Conquest of England]] (1066) - last successful invasion of England by a foreign force
* [[Rebellion of 1088]]
* [[Revolt of 1173-1174]]
* [[Third Crusade]] (1189)
* [[Welsh Uprising (1211)|Welsh Uprising]] (1211)
* [[Battle of Bouvines]] (1214) - loss of Normandy
* [[First Barons' War]] (1215–1217)
* [[Second Barons' War]] (1264–1267)
* [[Welsh Uprising (1282)|Welsh Uprising]] (1282)
* [[The First War of Scottish Independence (1296-1306)|The First War of Scottish Independence]] (1296–1306)
* [[Wars of Scottish Independence#The Second War of Independence: 1332.E2.80.931357|The Second War of Scottish Independence]] (1332–1357)
* [[Hundred Years' War]] (1337 to 1453)
* [[Wars of the Roses]] (1455–1485) - [[Richard III of England|Richard III]] was the last English king to die in combat

===Early Colonial period===
* [[Italian Wars]] (1494 – 1559)
* [[Cornish Rebellion of 1497|Cornish Rebellion]] (1497)
* [[Anglo-Scottish Wars]] (1513 – 1547)
* [[Calais|Loss of Calais]] (1558) - then England's last continental possession
* [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585)|Anglo-Spanish War]] (1585-1604)
* [[Nine Years War (Ireland)|Nine Years War]] (1594–1603)
* [[Eighty Years' War#Overseas assistance|Eighty Years' War]] (1598–1648)
* [[First Anglo-Powhatan War]] (1609–1613)
* [[Second Anglo-Powhatan War]] (1622)
* [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]] (1639–1651)
** [[Bishops Wars#First Bishops.27 War .281639.29|First Bishops' War]] (1639)
** [[Bishops Wars#Second Bishops.27 War .281640.29|Second Bishops' War]] (1640)
** [[Irish Rebellion of 1641|Irish Rebellion]] (1641)
** [[First English Civil War]] (1642–1646)
** [[Irish Confederate Wars#The Confederate.E2.80.99s war - 1642-48|The Confederate’s War ]] (1642-1648)
** [[Scottish Civil War]] (1644–1647)
** [[Second English Civil War]] (1648–1649)
** [[Third English Civil War]] (1649–1651)
** [[Cromwellian conquest of Ireland]] (1649)
* [[Third Anglo-Powhatan War]] (1644)
* [[First Anglo-Dutch War]] (1652–1654)
* [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654)|Anglo-Spanish War]] (1654–1660)
* [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]] (1665–1667)
* [[War of Devolution]] (1667–1668)
* [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]] (1672–1674)
* [[King Philip's War]] (1675–1676)
* [[Bacon's Rebellion|Virginia Rebellion]] (1676)
* [[Monmouth Rebellion]] (1685)
* [[Nine Years War]] (1688–1697)
**[[King William's War]] (1688–1697)
* [[Jacobitism|Jacobite Rebellions]] (1689–1746)
** Clifton Moor, near Penrith (1745) - last battle on [[England|English]] soil
** [[Battle of Culloden]] (1746) - last battle in [[Great Britain]]
* [[Battle of the Boyne]] (1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
** [[Williamite war in Ireland]] (1688–1691)
* [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1702–1713)
** [[Queen Anne's War]] (1702–1713)
* [[War of the Quadruple Alliance]] (1718–1720)
* [[War of Jenkins' Ear]] (1739–1742)
* [[War of the Austrian Succession]] (1740–1748)
** [[King George's War]] (1740–1748)
* [[Seven Years' War]] (1756–1763) - the first "world war"
** [[French and Indian War]] (1756–1763)
** [[Anglo-Cherokee War]] (1759–1763)
* [[Pontiac's Rebellion]] (1763–1766)
* [[First Anglo-Mysore War]] (1766–1769)

===Colonial Period===
* [[American Revolutionary War|American War of Independence]] (1775–1783)
* [[First Anglo-Maratha War]] (1775–1782)
* [[Fourth Anglo-Dutch War]] (1780–1784)
* [[Second Anglo-Mysore War]] (1780–1784)
* [[Third Anglo-Mysore War]] (1789–1792)
* [[French Revolutionary Wars]] (1793–1802)
** [[French Revolutionary Wars#War of the First Coalition|War of the First Coalition]] (1793–1797)
** [[French Revolutionary Wars#War of the Second Coalition|War of the Second Coalition]] (1798–1801)
** [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]] (1798–1799)
* [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Irish Rebellion]] (1798)
* [[Napoleonic Wars]] (1803–1815)
** [[British invasions of the Río de la Plata|South American War]] (1806–1807)
** [[Anglo-Turkish war 1807-1809|Anglo-Turkish War]] (1807–1809)
** [[Anglo-Russian War 1807-1812|Anglo-Russian War]] (1807–1812)
** [[Gunboat War]] (1807–1814)
** [[Peninsular War]] (1808–1814)
* [[Kandian Wars|First Kandian War]] (1803–1804)
* [[Second Anglo-Maratha War]] (1803–1805)
* [[Vellore Mutiny]] (1806)
* [[Anglo-Dutch Java War]] (1810–1811)
* [[War of 1812|British-American War]] (1812–1815)
* [[The Gurkha War|Anglo-Nepalese War]] (1814–1816)
* [[Kandian Wars|Second Kandian War]] (1815)
* [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]] (1817–1818)
* [[Peterloo Massacre]] (1819)
* [[First Burmese War|First Anglo-Burmese War ]] (1823–1826)
* [[War of the Two Brothers]] (1828–1834)
* [[First Carlist War]] (1833–1839)
* [[Upper Canada Rebellion]] (1837)
* [[Lower Canada Rebellion]] (1837)
* [[First Anglo-Afghan War]] (1839–1842)
* [[First Opium War]] (1839–1842)
* [[First Anglo-Sikh War]] (1845–1846)
* [[New Zealand land wars|New Zealand Wars]] (1845–1872)
* [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]] (1848–1849)
* [[Second Burmese War|Second Anglo-Burmese War ]] (1852)
* [[Crimean War]] (1854–1856)
* [[Second Opium War]] (1856–1860)
* [[Indian rebellion of 1857|Indian Rebellion]] (1857)
* [[Pig War]] (1859)
* [[Anglo-Bhutanese War]] (1865)
* [[European influence in Afghanistan#The Second Anglo-Afghan War|Second Anglo-Afghan War]] (1878-1880)
* [[Anglo-Zulu War]] (1879)
* [[First Boer War]] (1880–1881)
* [[Gun War]] (1880–1881)
* [[Third Burmese War|Third Anglo-Burmese War]] (1885–1887)
* [[Anglo-Zanzibar War]] (1896)
* [[Second Boer War]] (1899–1902)
* [[Boxer Rebellion]] (1900)
* [[Anglo-Aro war]] (1901-1902)

===Modern Period===
* [[World War I]] (1914–1918)
* [[Easter Rising]] (1916)
* [[Russian Civil War]] (1918–1922)
* [[European influence in Afghanistan#Third Anglo-Afghan War and Independence|Third Anglo-Afghan War]] (1919)
* [[Anglo-Irish War]] (1919–1921)
* [[Turkish War of Independence]] (1919–1923)
* [[Pacific War|The Pacific War]] (1937–1945)
* [[World War II]] (1939–1945)
* [[Anglo-Iraqi War]] (1941)
* [[Greek Civil War]] (1941–1949)
* [[Cold War]] (1945–1991)
* [[Malayan Emergency]] (1948–1960)
* [[Korean War]] (1950–1953)
* [[Mau Mau Uprising]] (1952–1960)
* [[History of Cyprus#Proposed Union with Greece|Cyprus Emergency]] (1955–1959)
* [[Suez Crisis]] (1956)
* [[History of Brunei|Brunei Uprising]] (1962)
* [[Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation]] (1962–1966)
* [[Aden#The Aden Emergency|Aden Emergency]] (1963–1967)
* [[Troubles|Northern Ireland Troubles]] (1969-mid 1990s)
* [[Cod War|Cod War Confrontation]] (1975–1976)
* [[Falklands War]] (1982)
* [[Gulf War|The First Gulf War]] (1990–1991)
* [[Bosnian War|The Bosnian War]] (1995–1996)
* [[Kosovo War|The Kosovo War]] (1999)
* [[Operation Palliser|Sierra Leone Civil War]] (2000)

===21st century===
* [[U.S. invasion of Afghanistan|The Afghanistan War]] (2001–2002)
* [[Iraq War]] (2003)
* [[Iraqi insurgency]] (2003–Present)

==List of fortifications in Britain==
===Roman & ancient===
* [[Hadrian's Wall]] AD 122
* [[Antonine Wall]] AD 142

===Mediæval===
* Castles in the UK
** [[Castles in England]]
** [[Castles in Northern Ireland]]
** [[Castles in Scotland]]
** [[Castles in Wales]]

===1600s===
*[[Royal Citadel, Plymouth|The Royal Citadel]]

===Georgian & Victorian===
*[[Fort Bovisand]]
*[[Crownhill Fort]]
*[[Martello tower]]s
*[[Picklecombe Fort]]
*[[Fort George, Highland|Fort George]]

===World War II Stop Lines===
* [[Avon Stop Line]]
* [[Colchester Stop Line]]
* [[GHQ Line]]
* [[Outer London Defence Ring]]
* [[Ringwood West Line]]
* [[Salisbury West Stop Line]]
* [[Taunton Stop Line]]

==List of British military institutions==
''See main article: [[British Armed Forces]]''

* [[Royal Navy]]
** [[Royal Marines]]
** [[Royal Fleet Auxiliary]]
* [[Royal Scottish Navy]] (until 1707)
* [[British Army]]
** [[New Model Army]] (1645)
** [[Territorial Army]] (1907)
** [[Kitchener's Army]] (1914)
** [[Auxiliary Units]] (1940s)
** [[Home Guard]] (1940s)
* [[Royal Air Force]]
* [[Royal Ordnance Factory]]

* [[National Service]] (1949 - 1960)
** [[Joint Services School for Linguists]]

==List of British military alliances==
===Scottish military alliances===
* [[Auld Alliance]] ([[1165]]-[[1560]])
===English military alliances===
* [[Anglo-Portuguese alliance]] ([[1386]]-)
* [[Catholic League (Italian)|Holy League]] ([[1510]] to [[1513]])
* [[Triple Alliance (1668)|Triple Alliance]] ([[1668]])
* [[Grand Alliance]] ([[1689]] - ?)

===British military alliances===
* [[Anglo-Portuguese alliance]] ([[1704]]-)
* [[Triple Alliance (1717)]]
* [[Triple Alliance (1788)]]
* [[Entente Cordiale]] (1904)
* [[Triple Entente]] (1908)
* [[NATO]] ([[1949]]-)
* [[Western European Union]] ([[1954]]-)
* [[Five Power Defence Arrangement]] ([[1971]]-)

==See also==

* [[Pax Britannica]]
* [[History of Britain]]
** [[History of the United Kingdom]]
** [[British Empire]]
* [[UK topics]]
** [[The United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction]]
** [[History of the British Army]]
** [[History of the Royal Navy]]
* [[List of battles (geographic)]]
* [[List of wars]]
* [[British military rank insignia]]

==References==
{{unreferenced}}

[[Category:Military history of the United Kingdom]]

Military history of the peoples of the British Islands

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{{UKHBS}}

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

==List of British military encounters==
===Prehistoric and ancient period===
* [[Roman conquest of Britain]] (43)

===Mediæval period===
* [[Viking Britain|Viking invasions]] (793–1066)
** Raid on [[Lindisfarne]] (793)
** [[Alfred the Great#Public life|Campaign of Alfred the Great]] (871–899)
*** [[Battle of Edington]] (878)
** [[Battle of Cannington]] (878)
** [[Battle of Stamford Bridge]] (1066)
* [[Norman Conquest of England]] (1066) - last successful invasion of England by a foreign force
* [[Rebellion of 1088]]
* [[Revolt of 1173-1174]]
* [[Third Crusade]] (1189)
* [[Welsh Uprising (1211)|Welsh Uprising]] (1211)
* [[Battle of Bouvines]] (1214) - loss of Normandy
* [[First Barons' War]] (1215–1217)
* [[Second Barons' War]] (1264–1267)
* [[Welsh Uprising (1282)|Welsh Uprising]] (1282)
* [[The First War of Scottish Independence (1296-1306)|The First War of Scottish Independence]] (1296–1306)
* [[Wars of Scottish Independence#The Second War of Independence: 1332.E2.80.931357|The Second War of Scottish Independence]] (1332–1357)
* [[Hundred Years' War]] (1337 to 1453)
* [[Wars of the Roses]] (1455–1485) - [[Richard III of England|Richard III]] was the last English king to die in combat

===Early Colonial period===
* [[Italian Wars]] (1494 – 1559)
* [[Cornish Rebellion of 1497|Cornish Rebellion]] (1497)
* [[Calais|Loss of Calais]] (1558) - then England's last continental possession
* [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585)|Anglo-Spanish War]] (1585-1604)
* [[Nine Years War (Ireland)|Nine Years War]] (1594–1603)
* [[Eighty Years' War#Overseas assistance|Eighty Years' War]] (1598–1648)
* [[First Anglo-Powhatan War]] (1609–1613)
* [[Second Anglo-Powhatan War]] (1622)
* [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]] (1639–1651)
** [[Bishops Wars#First Bishops.27 War .281639.29|First Bishops' War]] (1639)
** [[Bishops Wars#Second Bishops.27 War .281640.29|Second Bishops' War]] (1640)
** [[Irish Rebellion of 1641|Irish Rebellion]] (1641)
** [[First English Civil War]] (1642–1646)
** [[Irish Confederate Wars#The Confederate.E2.80.99s war - 1642-48|The Confederate’s War ]] (1642-1648)
** [[Scottish Civil War]] (1644–1647)
** [[Second English Civil War]] (1648–1649)
** [[Third English Civil War]] (1649–1651)
** [[Cromwellian conquest of Ireland]] (1649)
* [[Third Anglo-Powhatan War]] (1644)
* [[First Anglo-Dutch War]] (1652–1654)
* [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654)|Anglo-Spanish War]] (1654–1660)
* [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]] (1665–1667)
* [[War of Devolution]] (1667–1668)
* [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]] (1672–1674)
* [[King Philip's War]] (1675–1676)
* [[Bacon's Rebellion|Virginia Rebellion]] (1676)
* [[Monmouth Rebellion]] (1685)
* [[Nine Years War]] (1688–1697)
**[[King William's War]] (1688–1697)
* [[Jacobitism|Jacobite Rebellions]] (1689–1746)
** Clifton Moor, near Penrith (1745) - last battle on [[England|English]] soil
** [[Battle of Culloden]] (1746) - last battle in [[Great Britain]]
* [[Battle of the Boyne]] (1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
** [[Williamite war in Ireland]] (1688–1691)
* [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1702–1713)
** [[Queen Anne's War]] (1702–1713)
* [[War of the Quadruple Alliance]] (1718–1720)
* [[War of Jenkins' Ear]] (1739–1742)
* [[War of the Austrian Succession]] (1740–1748)
** [[King George's War]] (1740–1748)
* [[Seven Years' War]] (1756–1763) - the first "world war"
** [[French and Indian War]] (1756–1763)
** [[Anglo-Cherokee War]] (1759–1763)
* [[Pontiac's Rebellion]] (1763–1766)
* [[First Anglo-Mysore War]] (1766–1769)

===Colonial Period===
* [[American Revolutionary War|American War of Independence]] (1775–1783)
* [[First Anglo-Maratha War]] (1775–1782)
* [[Fourth Anglo-Dutch War]] (1780–1784)
* [[Second Anglo-Mysore War]] (1780–1784)
* [[Third Anglo-Mysore War]] (1789–1792)
* [[French Revolutionary Wars]] (1793–1802)
** [[French Revolutionary Wars#War of the First Coalition|War of the First Coalition]] (1793–1797)
** [[French Revolutionary Wars#War of the Second Coalition|War of the Second Coalition]] (1798–1801)
** [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]] (1798–1799)
* [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Irish Rebellion]] (1798)
* [[Napoleonic Wars]] (1803–1815)
** [[British invasions of the Río de la Plata|South American War]] (1806–1807)
** [[Anglo-Turkish war 1807-1809|Anglo-Turkish War]] (1807–1809)
** [[Anglo-Russian War 1807-1812|Anglo-Russian War]] (1807–1812)
** [[Gunboat War]] (1807–1814)
** [[Peninsular War]] (1808–1814)
* [[Kandian Wars|First Kandian War]] (1803–1804)
* [[Second Anglo-Maratha War]] (1803–1805)
* [[Vellore Mutiny]] (1806)
* [[Anglo-Dutch Java War]] (1810–1811)
* [[War of 1812|British-American War]] (1812–1815)
* [[The Gurkha War|Anglo-Nepalese War]] (1814–1816)
* [[Kandian Wars|Second Kandian War]] (1815)
* [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]] (1817–1818)
* [[Peterloo Massacre]] (1819)
* [[First Burmese War|First Anglo-Burmese War ]] (1823–1826)
* [[War of the Two Brothers]] (1828–1834)
* [[First Carlist War]] (1833–1839)
* [[Upper Canada Rebellion]] (1837)
* [[Lower Canada Rebellion]] (1837)
* [[First Anglo-Afghan War]] (1839–1842)
* [[First Opium War]] (1839–1842)
* [[First Anglo-Sikh War]] (1845–1846)
* [[New Zealand land wars|New Zealand Wars]] (1845–1872)
* [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]] (1848–1849)
* [[Second Burmese War|Second Anglo-Burmese War ]] (1852)
* [[Crimean War]] (1854–1856)
* [[Second Opium War]] (1856–1860)
* [[Indian rebellion of 1857|Indian Rebellion]] (1857)
* [[Pig War]] (1859)
* [[Anglo-Bhutanese War]] (1865)
* [[European influence in Afghanistan#The Second Anglo-Afghan War|Second Anglo-Afghan War]] (1878-1880)
* [[Anglo-Zulu War]] (1879)
* [[First Boer War]] (1880–1881)
* [[Gun War]] (1880–1881)
* [[Third Burmese War|Third Anglo-Burmese War]] (1885–1887)
* [[Anglo-Zanzibar War]] (1896)
* [[Second Boer War]] (1899–1902)
* [[Boxer Rebellion]] (1900)
* [[Aro-Anglo war]] (1901-1902)

===Modern Period===
* [[World War I]] (1914–1918)
* [[Easter Rising]] (1916)
* [[Russian Civil War]] (1918–1922)
* [[European influence in Afghanistan#Third Anglo-Afghan War and Independence|Third Anglo-Afghan War]] (1919)
* [[Anglo-Irish War]] (1919–1921)
* [[Turkish War of Independence]] (1919–1923)
* [[Pacific War|The Pacific War]] (1937–1945)
* [[World War II]] (1939–1945)
* [[Anglo-Iraqi War]] (1941)
* [[Greek Civil War]] (1941–1949)
* [[Cold War]] (1945–1991)
* [[Malayan Emergency]] (1948–1960)
* [[Korean War]] (1950–1953)
* [[Mau Mau Uprising]] (1952–1960)
* [[History of Cyprus#Proposed Union with Greece|Cyprus Emergency]] (1955–1959)
* [[Suez Crisis]] (1956)
* [[History of Brunei|Brunei Uprising]] (1962)
* [[Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation]] (1962–1966)
* [[Aden#The Aden Emergency|Aden Emergency]] (1963–1967)
* [[Troubles|Northern Ireland Troubles]] (1969-mid 1990s)
* [[Cod War|Cod War Confrontation]] (1975–1976)
* [[Falklands War]] (1982)
* [[Gulf War|The First Gulf War]] (1990–1991)
* [[Bosnian War|The Bosnian War]] (1995–1996)
* [[Kosovo War|The Kosovo War]] (1999)

===21st century===
* [[Operation Palliser|Sierra Leone Civil War]] (2000)
* [[U.S. invasion of Afghanistan|The Afghanistan War]] (2001–2002)
* [[Iraq War]] (2003)
* [[Iraqi insurgency]] (2003–Present)

==List of fortifications in Britain==
===Roman & ancient===
* [[Hadrian's Wall]] AD 122
* [[Antonine Wall]] AD 142

===Mediæval===
* Castles in the UK
** [[Castles in England]]
** [[Castles in Northern Ireland]]
** [[Castles in Scotland]]
** [[Castles in Wales]]

===1600s===
*[[Royal Citadel, Plymouth|The Royal Citadel]]

===Georgian & Victorian===
*[[Fort Bovisand]]
*[[Crownhill Fort]]
*[[Martello tower]]s
*[[Picklecombe Fort]]
*[[Fort George, Highland|Fort George]]

===World War II Stop Lines===
* [[Avon Stop Line]]
* [[Colchester Stop Line]]
* [[GHQ Line]]
* [[Outer London Defence Ring]]
* [[Ringwood West Line]]
* [[Salisbury West Stop Line]]
* [[Taunton Stop Line]]

==List of British military institutions==
''See main article: [[British Armed Forces]]''

* [[Royal Navy]]
** [[Royal Marines]]
** [[Royal Fleet Auxiliary]]
* [[Royal Scottish Navy]] (until 1707)
* [[British Army]]
** [[New Model Army]] (1645)
** [[Territorial Army]] (1907)
** [[Kitchener's Army]] (1914)
** [[Auxiliary Units]] (1940s)
** [[Home Guard]] (1940s)
* [[Royal Air Force]]
* [[Royal Ordnance Factory]]

* [[National Service]] (1949 - 1960)
** [[Joint Services School for Linguists]]

==List of British military alliances==
===Scottish military alliances===
* [[Auld Alliance]] ([[1165]]-[[1560]])
===English military alliances===
* [[Anglo-Portuguese alliance]] ([[1386]]-)
* [[Catholic League (Italian)|Holy League]] ([[1510]] to [[1513]])
* [[Triple Alliance (1668)|Triple Alliance]] ([[1668]])
* [[Grand Alliance]] ([[1689]] - ?)

===British military alliances===
* [[Anglo-Portuguese alliance]] ([[1704]]-)
* [[Triple Alliance (1717)]]
* [[Triple Alliance (1788)]]
* [[Entente Cordiale]] (1904)
* [[Triple Entente]] (1908)
* [[NATO]] ([[1949]]-)
* [[Western European Union]] ([[1954]]-)
* [[Five Power Defence Arrangement]] ([[1971]]-)

==See also==

* [[Pax Britannica]]
* [[History of Britain]]
** [[History of the United Kingdom]]
** [[British Empire]]
* [[UK topics]]
** [[The United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction]]
** [[History of the British Army]]
** [[History of the Royal Navy]]
* [[List of battles (geographic)]]
* [[List of wars]]
* [[British military rank insignia]]

==References==
{{unreferenced}}

[[Category:Military history of the United Kingdom]]

Archive:Study Group For Relativity

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== Introduction ==

This is an experimental course format and aims for a decentralized self-study course on Relativity. This page was started by me ([[User:jhouse|jhouse]]), but I am not an authority on this topic.

=== Individual Responsibilities ===

There is no intention to recruit teachers to design a study plan, create/grade assignments, or provide insightful guidance. Instead this is intended to be a study group on the topic of Relativity. Regardless of how much you know coming into this, the hope is that study group memebers will take the following responsibilities:
* Ask questions about topics that you're currently interested in
* Provide your best guess as to the answer questions posted by others
* Point out how posted answers conflict with your current understanding

=== Goals of this Course ===

This is as much a relativity learning excercise as it is an exercise in learning how to do decentralized, self-organized courses online. Wikibooks and many other online sources can give you a self-teaching material, but that is not the goal here. This course aims to foster a collaborative working environment among the individual members. Any official reference material created by this course may be a mistake, but I anticipate much of it to reference other authorites on the topic(s) discussed. [[User:Jhouse|Jhouse]] 15:28, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

== Members ==

=== Discussion Group Members ===
* [[user:jhouse|jhouse]] - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors
* [[user:gonzalsm|Gonzo]] - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors, M-Theory, Sychronization

=== Authorities Offering Help ===
(please include some kind of contact info)

== Discussion Pages ==
There are a number of course design issues that should be resolved before starting this section. Please click on the [[Talk:Wikiversity:Study_Group_For_Relativity|discussion tab at the top of this page]].

== Syllabus ==
This is still a work in progress. Edit it as you like (add detail, reorder, etc)
* Special Relativity
** [[wikipedia:Michelson-Morley experiment | Michelson-Morley experiment]]
** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Postulates_of_Special_Relativity|Postulates of Relativity]]
** Einstein's Gedanken Experiments
** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Consequences_of_Special_Relativity|Concequences of Special Relativity]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Simultaneity_and_Causality|Simultaneity and Causality]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Lorentz_Transformation|Lorentz Transformations]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Mass.2C_momentum.2C_and_energy|Mass and Energy]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#The_Geometry_of_Space-time_in_Special_Relativity|Space-Time Geometry]]
* General Relativity
** [[Wikiversity:General_Relativity:Tensors|Tensors]]

== Tangent Modules ==

*Prediction & Implication of Antiparticles
[[Wikiversity:Study Group For Relativity:Proof of Antiparticles]]

Archive:Study Group For Relativity

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== Introduction ==

This is an experimental course format and aims for a decentralized self-study course on Relativity. This page was started by me ([[User:jhouse|jhouse]]), but I am not an authority on this topic.

=== Individual Responsibilities ===

There is no intention to recruit teachers to design a study plan, create/grade assignments, or provide insightful guidance. Instead this is intended to be a study group on the topic of Relativity. Regardless of how much you know coming into this, the hope is that study group memebers will take the following responsibilities:
* Ask questions about topics that you're currently interested in
* Provide your best guess as to the answer questions posted by others
* Point out how posted answers conflict with your current understanding

=== Goals of this Course ===

This is as much a relativity learning excercise as it is an exercise in learning how to do decentralized, self-organized courses online. Wikibooks and many other online sources can give you a self-teaching material, but that is not the goal here. This course aims to foster a collaborative working environment among the individual members. Any official reference material created by this course may be a mistake, but I anticipate much of it to reference other authorites on the topic(s) discussed. [[User:Jhouse|Jhouse]] 15:28, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

== Members ==

=== Discussion Group Members ===
* [[user:jhouse|jhouse]] - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors
* [[user:gonzalsm|Gonzo]] - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors, M-Theory, Sychronization

=== Authorities Offering Help ===
(please include some kind of contact info)

== Discussion Pages ==
There are a number of course design issues that should be resolved before starting this section. Please click on the [[Talk:Wikiversity:Study_Group_For_Relativity|discussion tab at the top of this page]].

== Syllabus ==
This is still a work in progress. Edit it as you like (add detail, reorder, etc)
* Special Relativity
** [[wikipedia:Michelson-Morley experiment | Michelson-Morley experiment]]
** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Postulates_of_Special_Relativity|Postulates of Relativity]]
** Einstein's Gedanken Experiments
** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Consequences_of_Special_Relativity|Concequences of Special Relativity]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Simultaneity_and_Causality|Simultaneity and Causality]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Lorentz_Transformation|Lorentz Transformations]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Mass.2C_momentum.2C_and_energy|Mass and Energy]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#The_Geometry_of_Space-time_in_Special_Relativity|Space-Time Geometry]]
* General Relativity
** [[Wikiversity:General_Relativity#Tensors|Tensors]]

== Tangent Modules ==

*Prediction & Implication of Antiparticles
[[Wikiversity:Study Group For Relativity:Proof of Antiparticles]]

Archive:Study Group For Relativity

2005-08-19T01:45:03Z

68.54.243.231:

== Introduction ==

This is an experimental course format and aims for a decentralized self-study course on Relativity. This page was started by me ([[User:jhouse|jhouse]]), but I am not an authority on this topic.

=== Individual Responsibilities ===

There is no intention to recruit teachers to design a study plan, create/grade assignments, or provide insightful guidance. Instead this is intended to be a study group on the topic of Relativity. Regardless of how much you know coming into this, the hope is that study group memebers will take the following responsibilities:
* Ask questions about topics that you're currently interested in
* Provide your best guess as to the answer questions posted by others
* Point out how posted answers conflict with your current understanding

=== Goals of this Course ===

This is as much a relativity learning excercise as it is an exercise in learning how to do decentralized, self-organized courses online. Wikibooks and many other online sources can give you a self-teaching material, but that is not the goal here. This course aims to foster a collaborative working environment among the individual members. Any official reference material created by this course may be a mistake, but I anticipate much of it to reference other authorites on the topic(s) discussed. [[User:Jhouse|Jhouse]] 15:28, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

== Members ==

=== Discussion Group Members ===
* [[user:jhouse|jhouse]] - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors
* [[user:gonzalsm|Gonzo]] - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors, M-Theory, Sychronization

=== Authorities Offering Help ===
(please include some kind of contact info)

== Discussion Pages ==
There are a number of course design issues that should be resolved before starting this section. Please click on the [[Talk:Wikiversity:Study_Group_For_Relativity|discussion tab at the top of this page]].

== Syllabus ==
This is still a work in progress. Edit it as you like (add detail, reorder, etc)
* Special Relativity
** [[wikipedia:Michelson-Morley experiment | Michelson-Morley experiment]]
** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Postulates_of_Special_Relativity|Postulates of Relativity]]
** Einstein's Gedanken Experiments
** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Consequences_of_Special_Relativity|Concequences of Special Relativity]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Simultaneity_and_Causality|Simultaneity and Causality]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Lorentz_Transformation|Lorentz Transformations]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Mass.2C_momentum.2C_and_energy|Mass and Energy]]
*** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#The_Geometry_of_Space-time_in_Special_Relativity|Space-Time Geometry]]
* General Relativity
** [[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Consequences_of_Special_Relativity|Tensors]]

== Tangent Modules ==

*Prediction & Implication of Antiparticles
[[Wikiversity:Study Group For Relativity:Proof of Antiparticles]]