List of wars involving the United Kingdom

• Kalmyk Khanate

 

 

 

 

Brunswick-Lüneburg

• Britain played a very minor role
• Tsardom of Russia establishes itself as a new power in Europe.
• Decline of Swedish Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

including

• Queen Anne's War

• 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

• Piracy outlawed by Treaty of Utrecht
• Anti-Caribbean Piracy campaign by Royal Navy
• 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

including

• The Jacobite uprising in Cornwall

 France

Jacobite restoration attempt defeated

including

• The Nineteen Uprising in Great Britain
  (1717–1720)

Jacobites (against the British Crown and government only)

• Royal navy won a battle; a small-scale Jacobite invasion was defeated
• Treaty of The Hague:
• Spanish attempt at expansion fails.

• Britain recognises the rights of the region's indigenous inhabitants.

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

• Spanish Empire

• Status quo ante bellum
• British offensive in the Caribbean theatre defeated
• British invasion of Florida repulsed
• Spanish invasion of Georgia repulsed
• Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) leading to Treaty of Madrid (1750)

including

• King George's War
• The War of Jenkins' Ear
• The First Carnatic War

 

 Saxony

 Sardinia

 Russia

East India Company

 France

 

Spain

• Spanish Empire

 Saxony

 Genoa

French East India Company

• Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle:
• Status quo ante bellum

Jacobite rising of 1745
(1741–1745)

 France

Jacobite restoration attempt defeated

  Forces of Mohamed Ali Khan Walajan

  Forces of Muhyi ad-Din Muzaffar Jang Hidayat

Treaty of Pondicherry:

• Pro-British Mohamed Ali Khan Walajan became Nawab of the Carnatic

including

• Third Carnatic War
• French and Indian War
• Pomeranian War
• Third Silesian War
• Anglo-Spanish War

 

• East India Company
• British America

 

Schaumburg-Lippe

 France

• New France
• French East India Company

 

 

 

Spain

• Spanish Empire

 Saxony

 Sardinia

• Mughal Empire

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

Pro-British Attakullakulla becomes Cherokee leader

• Slave defeat
• Death of Tacky
• Tacky's men committed suicide

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

 

Hyderabad State

Hyderabad cedes territory to Mysore

• Treaty of Salbai.[2][3]
• Maratha support for Britain against Mysore

• American Revolutionary War (1775–83)
• Anglo-French War (1778–83)
• Anglo-Spanish War (1779–83)
• 4th Anglo-Dutch War (1780–83)

 

 France

 

Catawba tribe

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
• Territory in India ceded by the Dutch

 

Hyderabad State

• Treaty of Mangalore:
• Status quo ante bellum

Treaty of Greenville

• British withdrawal
• American occupation of the Northwest Territory

 

Travancore

Treaty of Seringapatam:

• Half of Mysore territory ceded to East India Company

Sister republics:

•  Batavian Republic
•  Helvetic Republic
• Cisalpine Republic
• Roman Republic
• Parthenopaean Republic

Treaty of Amiens:

• General French victory
• Britain recognises the French Republic
• Cape Colony returned to the Batavian Republic
• British withdrawal from Egypt
• French withdrawal from the Papal States
• Tobago ceded from France
• Trinidad ceded from Spain
• Ceylon ceded from the Batavian Republic

 

• British East India Company

• Saudi retreat from Kuwait.

• Maroon defeat
• 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

Displacement of Aborigines from their land

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

• End of 2357 years of Sinhalese independence

• Rebellion defeated
• 1801 Act of Union

 

Hyderabad State

French Republic

Complete annexation of Mysore by Britain and allies

Northern shore of Sierra Leone ceded by Koya

Extensive territory in India ceded by the Maratha Empire

Territory captured from Kandy

Emmet's Insurrection
(1803)

Rebellion defeated

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

 

 

 Sweden

 

Württemberg

• Fourth Peace of Preßburg:
• French victory
• Austria surrenders to France
• Pro-French Confederation of the Rhine formed

 

 Russia

 Saxony

 

Sicily

Confederation of the Rhine

•  Bavaria
•  Württemberg

 Spain

Treaties of Tilsit:

• French victory
• Half of Prussia ceded to French allies
• Russia exits the war
• Anglo-Russian War begins

Dutch Empire

Treaty of the Dardanelles:

• Turkish Military victory
• Commercial and legal concessions to British interests within the Ottoman Empire
• Promise to protect the empire against French encroachment

Treaty of Kiel:

• Denmark and Norway split up
• Heligoland ceded from Denmark

• Treaty of Örebro:
• Anglo-Russian-Swedish pact against France

 

Portugal

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

 

 Sardinia

Confederation of the Rhine

•  Bavaria
• Saxony
•  Württemberg
• Westphalia

Holland

• Treaty of Schönbrunn:
• Complete Austrian surrender
• Peninsular War continued

Merina control of Madagascar Merina pro-British policies

Xhosa tribes pushed beyond the Fish River, reversing their gains in the previous Xhosa wars

 

Dutch Empire

Akim tribes

 

• British North America

Tecumseh's Confederacy

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

• United States invasions of British Canada repulsed
• British invasions of the United States land returned to United States under Treaty of Ghent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After Battle of Leipzig

• Saxony
•  Bavaria
•  Württemberg
•  Netherlands Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands

 

•  Napoleonic Italy
•  Kingdom of Naples
• Duchy of Warsaw[nb 1]

Until January 1814

• Denmark–Norway
• Confederation of the Rhine (Many member states defected after Battle of Leipzig)

• Coalition victory, Treaty of Fontainebleau, First Treaty of Paris
• Bourbon Restoration; Napoleon's exile to Elba
• Various territorial changes
• Beginning of the Congress of Vienna
• Hostilities resume with the return of Napoleon to power in 1815

Kandyan Convention:

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

War of the Seventh Coalition

 

 Austria

 Russia

 

 Netherlands

 

 Sardinia

 

Tuscany

Naples

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

Virtually all territory south of the Sutlej River controlled by Britain

Xhosa pushed beyond Keiskama River

Ionian Islands

 

Egypt

Establishment of the Kingdom of Greece

• Stalemate after armistice

Native tribes

Treaty of Yandabo:

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

• Mutiny suppressed

Spain

Concession of Evoramonte:

• Defeat and exile of King Miguel

• Slave defeat
• Rebellion suppressed

• Forces of Infante Carlos
• Forces of King Miguel

• British withdrawal before war's conclusion
• British mediated Convention of Vergara

Extensive territorial gains from Xhosa

 

Province of Lower Canada

• British Loyalists

• Patriote rebellion crushed by loyalist forces; Republic of Canada dismantled
• Defeat of Hunters' Lodges
• Unification of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada

• British retreat from Afghanistan

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

• Egypt renounced its claim to Syria.

 Brazil

Italian Legion

 Argentine Confederation

• British and French withdrawal before war's conclusion
• Peace treaty with the Argentine Confederation[4][5]
• Eventual Colorados victory

Treaty of Lahore:

• Extensive territory ceded from the Sikh Empire
• Partial control over Sikh foreign affairs

Ngāti Toa Iwi retreat

The War of the Axe

Territory ceded from Xhosa

• 12 year peace and trade

• 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

Complete annexation of the Punjab by the East India Company

Mlanjeni's War

Native Kafir Police

Xhosa-Khoi attacks defeated Status quo ante bellum

• Qing Dynasty victory
• Fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
• Weakening of the Qing dynasty

Burmese revolution ended fighting Lower Burma annexed

 

 Kingdom of Sardinia

 

Bulgarian Legion

Treaty of Paris

 

 

 

 

 United States

 Nicaragua

Sonora/Nicaraguan government defeat.
Slavery outlawed.
William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the U.S. Navy.

Arrow War

 United States

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

East India Company

Herat

Persian withdrawal from Herat

Princely states:

• Jaipur
• Bikaner
• Marwar
• Rampur
• Kapurthala
• Nabha
• Bhopal
• Sirohi
• Udaipur
• Patiala
• Sirmur
• Alwar
• Bharathpur
• Bundi
• Jaora
• Bijawar
• Ajaigarh
• Rewa
• Kendujhar
• Hyderabad

7 Princely states

Act for the Better Government of India:

• Company rule in India dissolved
• Indian Empire established
• Ban on Christian missionaries in India

Second Māori War

Māori King Movement

• Tactical stalemate and mitigated British victory

Third Māori War

Māori King Movement defeated, confined to King Country

Treaty of Sinchula:

• Bhutan cedes Assam Duars and Bengal Duars to India
• Bhutan cedes territory in Dewangiri to India

Selangor Civil War

British Straits Settlements

Part of the New Zealand Wars

Ngāti Ruanui Iwi withdrawal

British hostages freed War of the Abyssinian Succession begins

Part of the New Zealand Wars
(1868–1872)

End of New Zealand Wars Territory ceded by Māori iwi

 

Métis Loyalists

Defeat of rebellion Manitoba Act:

• Creation of the Province of Manitoba

Treaty of Fomena:

• 50,000 oz of gold compensation from Ashanti Empire
• Ashanti withdrawal from coastal areas
• Ashanti banned from practicing human sacrifice

All Xhosa territory annexed to the Cape Colony

Treaty of Gandamak

• Full British military withdrawal
• Subsidies paid to the Afghans
• Afghanistan becomes a British protectorate[6]
• Districts of Quetta, Pishin, Sibi, Harnai and Thal Chotiali ceded to British India[7]

Zululand annexed to Natal

• ‘Urabi forces defeated and exiled

Pretoria Convention:

• South African Republic granted self-government

 

 

 Belgium

Sudan ruled by Britain and Egypt

Upper Burma annexed to British Raj

Tibet recognizes British suzerainty over Sikkim

Pro-British Sultan installed

Boxer Protocol:

• Anti-foreign societies banned in China

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

Aro Confederacy destroyed

Status quo ante bellum

 

 

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Newfoundland
•  Australia
•  New Zealand
•  India
•  South Africa

 Russia

 

 Italy

 

 

 Serbia

 Montenegro

 Romania

 

 Greece

 

 

Other Allies

 Germany

• German Empire

 

 

 Bulgaria

Treaty of Versailles:

• German demobilisation

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

• Demise of Austria-Hungary

Russia pulls out in 1917

• Russian Civil War
  • Creation of the Soviet Union

Creation of League of Nations:

• Mesopotamia ceded from the Ottoman Empire
• Palestine and Jordan ceded from the Ottoman Empire
• Tanganyika ceded from Germany
• Part of Kamerun ceded from Germany
• Part of Togoland ceded from Germany
• German New Guinea ceded to Australia
• German Samoa ceded to New Zealand
• German South-West Africa ceded to South Africa

 

Baltische Landeswehr

• Independence of Estonia
• Vidzeme gained by the Republic of Latvia

 

 Russian SFSR
 Latvian SSR

• Independence of Latvia

 

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Australia
•  India
•  South Africa

 

 Japan

 

 Greece

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Allied withdrawal from Russia
• Bolshevik victory over White Army
• Soviet Union new Russian power

 Greece

 France

 Armenia

 United Kingdom

 Ottoman Empire

• Kuva-yi Inzibatiye (in 1920)

 Italy
Georgia (in 1921)

• Grand National Assembly (after 1920)
  • Kuva-yi Nizamiye
• Kuva-yi Milliye (until 1920)

Supported by:
 Russian SFSR[9]
Azerbaijan SSR
Georgian SSR
Bukharan PSR
Afghanistan
All-India Muslim League

Treaty of Lausanne

• Overthrow of the Ottoman sultanate
• Withdrawal of Allied forces from occupied lands of Turkey
• Establishment of the Republic of Turkey
• Starting of the series of reforms led by Atatürk

• Defeat of Afghan invasion of north-west British India
• Inconclusive military operation[12]
• Reaffirmation of the Durand Line
• Afghan independence with full sovereignty in foreign affairs

 

•  India

• Ikhwan[13]

• Anglo-Irish Treaty:
• Dominion status for Southern Ireland as the Irish Free State

Demise of the Dervish State

• Revolt suppressed, greater autonomy given to Iraq

 

• Sheykh Minwar al-Hadid

Sultan al-Adwan's defeat and exile

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

Revolt suppressed

• British withdrawal from Mandatory Palestine

• IRA failure

Nazi Germany formally surrenders 8 May 1945, ending the Second World War in Europe.
On August 15, 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.

• Zadran
• Mangal
• Safi

• Rebel invasion of India in 1944 repelled
• Rebels fully defeated by Afghan government in January 1947

• Insurgency subsided by March 1945

• IRA campaign failure

 

 United States

Bulgaria

• Hand over to Dutch in 1946
• Netherlands recognises Indonesian Independence

 

•  India

• Hand over to French
• First Indochina War begins

• ICJ awards compensation to Britain, which is not settled till 1992.
• Britain breaks off talks aimed at establishing diplomatic relations with Albania.

•  United Kingdom
• Federation of Malaya
•  Australia
•  New Zealand
•  Southern Rhodesia
•  Fiji
•  Kenya

 

• Communist retreat from Malaya
• Malayan independence

 

 

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Australia
•  New Zealand
•  India

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Korean Armistice Agreement
• Communist invasion of South Korea repelled
• UN invasion of North Korea repelled

• Ended with the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

 

• British Kenya

• Defeat of Mau Mau
• Kenyan independence

• Ibadi sect
   Saudi Arabia

• Dissolution of the Imamate of Oman

 

• Cyprus Colony

TMT

• Cyprus became an independent republic in 1960 with Britain retaining control of two Sovereign Base Areas, at Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
• Enosis not achieved

Coalition military victory[16][17][18]
Egyptian political victory[16]

• Anglo-French withdrawal following international pressure (December 1956)
• Israeli occupation of Sinai (until March 1957)
• UNEF deployment in Sinai[19]
• Straits of Tiran re-opened to Israeli shipping

IRA campaign fails

 

• Upper Yafa

•  Malaysia
•  United Kingdom
•  Australia
•  New Zealand

Indonesia recognises Malaysian rule over former North Borneo

 

 

 Jordan

• Biafra rejoins Nigeria

• Ulster Volunteer Force
• Ulster Defence Association
• Red Hand Commando
• Ulster Resistance
• Loyalist Volunteer Force

Provisional Irish Republican Army

Official Irish Republican Army

Irish National Liberation Army

Irish People's Liberation Organisation

Continuity Irish Republican Army

Real Irish Republican Army

• Devolution in Northern Ireland
• Power-sharing deal
• Cross-border cooperation
• Disarming of paramilitary groups
• Demilitarisation

British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands re-established.

• Multinational forces fail to prevent collapse of Lebanese Army into Syrian- or Israeli- supported militias[24][25]
• 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Allies

Kuwait regains its independence

 NATO

Dayton Accords

 

 United Kingdom

Objectives largely achieved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kosovo Liberation Army

Kosovo administered by UNMIK

 

 United Kingdom

 Liberia

Rebels defeated

(Withdrawal)

Taliban insurgency

(UK withdrew all military forces in 2014)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Iraqi Kurdistan

 

Various insurgents

• Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government
• Occupation of southern Iraq
• Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Sectarian Violence[27]
• Rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq[28][29]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweden

• Fall of Gaddafi regime
• Muammar Gaddafi killed
• National Transitional Council take control

 

al-Nusra Front
Khorasan

Ahrar ash-Sham

• 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.[30][31]
• Ongoing operations by UK Special Forces in Syria.
• British armed forces provide material and training to Iraqi Security Forces and Peshmerga.[32][33]
• 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).

• Seizure of internationally flagged vessels by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz
• Seizure of Iranian flagged vessel by UK at Gibraltar
• US intelligence drone shot down by Iran
• Attacks on US Embassy in Baghdad by Iranian backed Popular Mobilization Forces
• Killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad International airport