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Home › Society › Government › Historical Britain › Major Foreign Wars

Major Foreign Wars

This is a list of major foreign wars in which England has been involved. The date, the name, and the principal allies vs. the principal enemies of England are named for each.

Late 12th C. – Third Crusade
Western Christian countries vs. Turkish Saracens

1337-1453 – Hundred Years War
(none) vs. France

1618-1648 – Thirty Years War
Protestant countries vs. Catholic countries

1689-1697 – King William’s War
Germany, Holland, Spain vs. Bavaria, France

1702-1713 – War of Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War)
Holland vs. Bavaria, Belgium, Cologne, France, Italy, Savoy, South America, Spain

1739-1743 – War of Jenkins Ear
(none) vs. Spanish Colonies

1742-1748 – War of Austrian Succession
Austria vs. France, Prussia, Spain

1756-1763 – Seven Years War
Prussia vs. Austria, France, Russia, Sweden

1775-1781 – American War of Independence
(none) vs. France, Thirteen Colonies

1793-1815 – Napoleonic Wars
Portugal, Spain vs. Austria, France, Prussia




1810-1813 – Peninsular War
Portugal, Spain vs. France

1812-1814 – War of 1812
(none) vs. France, United States

1839-1842 – Anglo-China War
(none) vs. China

1854-1856 – Crimean War
Austria, France, Turkey vs. Russia

1899-1902 – South African War (Boer War)
(none) vs. Boers of South Africa

1914-1918 – World War I
British Empire, France, Italy, Russia, United States vs. Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire

1939-1945 – World War II
British Commonwealth, China, France, U.S.S.R., United States vs. Germany, Italy, Japan

1950-1953 – Korean War
United Nations, South Korea vs. China, North Korea

1956 – Suez Canal Crisis
France, Israel vs. Egypt

1982 – Falkland War
(none) vs. Argentina

1991 – Gulf War
27 countries vs. Iraq

(This page was updated in December 2012.)




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