Military history of England

The military history of England and Wales deals with the period prior to the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. For the period after 1707 see Military history of the United Kingdom.

List of military encounters

Medieval period

• Battle of Aylesford (455) Anglo-Saxons, Romano-Britons
• Battle of Badon (c. 519) siege and battle that stemmed the tide of Saxon advance for a few decades: Anglo-Saxons, Romano-Britons
• Battle of Ellandun
• Viking invasions (793–1066)
  • Raid on Lindisfarne (793)
  • Campaign of Alfred the Great (871–899)
    • Battle of Edington (878)
    • Battle of Cynwit (878)
  • Battle of Assandun (1016)
  • Battle of Fulford (1066)
  • Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
• Norman conquest of England (1066)
  • Battle of Hastings 1066
• Rebellion of 1088 - civil war
• The Anarchy (1135–54) - civil war
• Revolt of 1173–74 - civil war
• Third Crusade (1189–1192)
• Richard I's war in France
• Welsh uprising of 1211
• Battle of Bouvines (1214) - loss of Normandy
• First Barons' War (1215–1217) - civil war
• Henry III's war in France
• Second Barons' War (1264–1267) - civil war
• Welsh Uprising (1282) - civil war
• Edward I's war in France
• The First War of Scottish Independence (1296–1328)
  • Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
• Edward II's war in France
• The Second War of Scottish Independence (1332–1357)
• Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) against France
  • War of Edward III (1337 to 1360) - victory
  • War of Charles the Wise (1369 to 1396) - defeat
  • War of Henry V (1415 to 1422) - victory
  • War of Charles the Victorious (1428 to 1453) - defeat
• Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) - Richard III was the last English king to die in combat - civil war

Early Modern period

• Italian Wars (1494 – 1559)
  • War of the League of Cambrai (1511–13)
  • Italian War of 1521–26
  • Italian War of 1542–46
  • Italian War of 1551–59 (1557–59)
• Cornish Rebellion (1497)
• Anglo-Scottish Wars (1513; 1544–51)
• Third Cornish Uprising (1549)
• Siege of Calais (1558) - loss of England's last continental possession
• Desmond Wars (1569-83)
• Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
• Nine Years' War (Ireland) (1594–1603)
• Eighty Years' War (1598–1648)
• First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1613) - North America
• Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1622) - North America
• Anglo-Spanish War (1625–30) (As a small part of the Thirty Years' War)
• Anglo-French War (1627–29)
• Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) - civil war
  • First Bishops' War (1639)
  • Second Bishops' War (1640)
  • Irish Rebellion (1641)
  • The Confederates' War (1642-648)
  • English Civil War (1642–1651)
    • First English Civil War (1642–1646)
    • Civil War in Scotland (1644–1647)
    • Second English Civil War (1648)
    • Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649-53)
    • Third English Civil War (1650–1651)
• Third Anglo-Powhatan War (1644) - North America
• First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–54)
• Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60)
• Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–67)
• War of Devolution (1667–1668)
• Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674)
• King Philip's War (1675–1676) - North America
• Virginia Rebellion (1676)
• Monmouth Rebellion (1685) - civil war
• Nine Years' War (1688–1697) - England, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Holland v France
  • King William's War (1688–1697) - North America
• Jacobite Rebellions (1689–91) - Civil War
  • Williamite War in Ireland (1688–1691)
  • Battle of the Boyne (1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
• War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713) - England and Scotland/Great Britain, Germany, Portugal and Holland v France and Spain
  • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713)
• For military history after the Acts of Union 1707 see the military history of the United Kingdom

List of civil wars

1. Rebellion of 1088 - in England and Normandy
2. The Anarchy (1135–54) - in England
3. Revolt of 1173–74 - in England, Normandy, and Anjou
4. First Barons' War (1215–17) - in England
5. Second Barons' War (1264–67) - in England
6. Welsh Uprising (1282) - in England and Wales
7. Wars of the Roses (1455–85) - in England and Wales; Richard III was the last English king to die in combat
8. Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–51) - in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
   • First Bishops' War (1639)
   • Second Bishops' War (1640)
   • Irish Rebellion of 1641
   • First English Civil War (1642–1646)
   • The Confederates' War (1642-48)
   • Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644–47)
   • Second English Civil War (1648)
   • Third English Civil War (1650–51)
   • Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
9. Monmouth Rebellion (1685) - in England
10. Jacobite Rebellions (1689-91; 1715-16; 1719; 1745-46) - in England, Scotland and Ireland
    • Williamite War in Ireland (1688–91)
    • Battle of the Boyne (1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne

See also

• List of wars involving England
• List of wars involving England and France
• List of wars involving Great Britain
• List of wars in Great Britain

Further reading

• Charles Carlton. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746 (Yale University Press; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels.