Military--British Wars
Wars That Affected Our British Ancestors
| Year(s) |
Military Actions |
| |
|
| 1066 |
Battle of Hastings
|
| 1337-1453 |
Hundred Years' War
|
| 1455-1485 |
War of the Roses
|
| 1512, 1522, 1544, 1557 |
Wars with France
|
| 1588 |
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
|
| 1599 |
Revolt in Ireland
|
| 1618-1648 |
Thirty Years' War with Germany
|
| 1642-1648 |
Great Civil Wars
Cromwell's subjugation of Ireland
|
| 1654-1658 |
War with Spain
|
| 1651, 1665, 1672 |
War with Holland
|
| 1685 |
Monmouth Rebellion (800 rebels sent to Barbados)
|
| 1689-1697 |
King William's War
|
| 1689 |
Siege of Londonberry
|
| 1690-1713 |
War with France
|
| 1701-1713 |
War of the Spanish Succession
|
| 1715 |
Jacobite Rebellion
|
| 1727-1745 |
Wars with Austria, Spain and France
|
| 1746 |
Battle of Culloden Moor (last war with Scotland)
|
| 1756-1763 |
Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)
|
| 1776-1781 |
Revolutionary War with American Colonies
|
| 1799-1805 |
Mysore and Maratha Confederacy Wars in India
|
| 1805 |
Naval vistory at Trafalgar
|
| 1812-1814 |
American "War of 1812"
|
| 1801-1815 |
Napoleonic Wars
|
| 1831 |
Tithe War in Ireland
|
| 1840-1842 |
Opium War
|
| 1854-1856 |
Crimean War
|
| 1899-1902 |
Boer War in South America
|
| 1914-1918 |
First World War
|
| 1939-1945 |
Second World War
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