Military history of the peoples of the British Islands
For details of British military history see:
Institutions
Military encouters
- Norman Conquest 1066
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453)
- Battle of Agincourt (1415)
- Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1485)
- Italian Wars (1494 – 1559)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- British Civil War (1642 - 1649)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)