Military history of the peoples of the British Islands

For details of British military history see:

• Royal Navy
• British Army
• Royal Air Force
• Royal Ordnance
• NATO
• Western European Union

• List of battles (geographic)
• List of wars

• Italian Wars (1494 – 1559)
• Spanish Armada (1588)
• First Anglo-Dutch War (1652 - 1654)
• Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665 - 1667)
• Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672 - 1674)
• War of the Grand Alliance (1688 - 1697)
• War of Jenkins' Ear (1739 - 1742)
• War of the Austrian Succession (1740 - 1748)
• Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784)
• American War of Independence (1775 to 1783)
• Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815)
  • Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
• First Anglo-Afghan War
• First Opium War (1839 - 1842)
• Crimean War (1854 - 1856)
  • Charge of the Light Brigade
• Second Opium War (or The Arrow War) (1856 - 1860)
• Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
• Boer War ( 1880 - 1881 and 1899 - 1902)
• Anglo-Irish War (1919 - 1921)
• World War I (1914 - 1918)
• World War II (1939 - 1945)
  • British military history of World War II
    • British Commandos
    • Bletchley Park
• Cold War (1945 - 1991)
• Korean War (1950 - 1953)
• Suez Crisis (1956)
• Icelandic Cod War (1975 - 1976)
• Falklands War (1982)
• Gulf War (1990 - 1991)
• 2003 invasion of Iraq (2003)

See also

• History of the United Kingdom
• UK topics