Index of the 
Wars, Campaigns and Operations
of
Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth

Copyright 1995-2001 by T.F. Mills
Page created 19 May 2000.
Corrected and updated 13.05.2001

See also Chronological Index of Battle Honours

Americas Europe Africa & Near East Asia & Pacific
2nd Anglo-Dutch War
1664-1668		 Tangier
1662-1680
King Philip's War
1675-1676		 3rd Anglo-Dutch War
1672-1674
Covenanter Rebellion
1679
Monmouth Rebellion
1685
Glorious Revolution
1688
Jacobite War
1689-1691
War of the Augsburg League
1689-1697
Queen Anne's War
1702-1714 		War of the Spanish Succession
1702-1714
Jacobite Rebellion
1715
Anglo-Spanish War
1719-1727
War of Jenkins' Ear
1741		  
King George's War
1743-1748 		War of the Austrian Succession
1742-1748
Jacobite Rebellion
1745-1746

Seven Years' War, 1755-1763

French & Indian War
1755-1763		 War in Europe
1756-1763		 Conquest of India
1751-1763
War in West Indies
1756-1763		 Oude Campaign
1760-1764
Philippines
1762
 
Pontiac's Conspiracy
1763-1764		 1st Mysore War
1767-1771
Carib War
1772-1773		 Rohilla Wars
1774-1794
American War of Independence
1775-1783		 War with France & Spain
1778-1783		 Korah
1776
1st Mahratta War
1776-1782
2nd-4th Mysore Wars
1780-1791

French Revolutionary Wars, 1793-1802

West Indies Campaigns
1794-1798		 Netherlands Campaign
1793-1799		 Cape of Good Hope
1795		 Pondicherry 1793
Mediterranean Campaigns
1793-1800		 Ceylon
1795-1796
Fishguard 
1797
Irish Rebellion
1798		 5th Mysore War
1799
Denmark
1801		 Egypt Campaign
1801		 Indian Wars
1800-1802

Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815

West Indies Campaigns
1803-1805		 Italy & Mediterranean
1806-1812		 Cape of Good Hope
1806		 Kandian War
1803
South American War
1806-1807		 Denmark
1807		 Egypt
1807		 2nd Mahratta War
1803-1806
West Indies Campaign
1809-1815		 Peninsular War
1808-1814		 French Indian Ocean
1810		 Chumar
1807
Walcheren
1809		 4th Kaffir War
1811-1812		 Travancore
1809
Germany
1813
War of 1812
1812-1815		 Netherlands Campaigns
1813-1814		 Arabia
1809		 Dutch East Indies
1810-1811
Nepal Campaign
1814-1816
 
5th Kaffir War
1819		 Ceylon Campaign
1814-1818
Arabia
1819-1821		 3rd Mahratta War
1817-1819
Ashanti Campaign
1824		 Assam
1824-1825
1st Burma War
1824-1826
Portuguese Expedition
1827-1828		 Jat War
1825-1826
6th Kaffir War
1834-1835		 Coorg Campaign
1834
Canadian Rebellion
1837-1838		 1st Carlist War
1836-1838		 Capture of Aden
1839		 1st Afghan War
1839-1842
Syrian Expedition
1840-1841		 1st China War
1839-1842
Argentina-Uruguay War, 1843-1852 Occupation of Durban
1842		 Conquest of Scinde
1843
Gwalior Campaign
1843
Orange Free State Expeditions
1845, 1848		 1st Maori War
1845-1847
7th Kaffir War
1846-1847		 1st Sikh War
1845-1846
8th Kaffir War
1850-1853		 2nd Sikh War
1848-1849
North West Frontier
1849-1878
Crimean War
1853-1856		 2nd Burma War
1852-1853
Persian War
1856-1857
Indian Mutiny
1857-1858
2nd China War
1857-1862
2nd Maori War
1860-1861
Trent Affair
1861-1862		 Sikkim Expedition
1861
Japanese Intervention
1863-1864
Fenian Raids
1866		 South Arabian Expedition
1865-1866		 Bhutan Campaign
1865-1866
Abyssinian War
1867-1868		 3rd Maori War
1863-1866
Fenian Raids
1870		 South Africa
1873		 North East Frontier
1864-1866
Ashanti War
1873-1874		 Perak Campaign
1875-1876
Ninth Kaffir War
1877-1879
Zulu War
1879		 2nd Afghan War
1878-1880
Basuto Wars
1880-1881
1st Anglo-Boer War
1880-1881
Egypt Intervention
1882-1884
North West Canada
1885		 1st Sudan War
1885-1886		 3rd Burma War
1885-1887
West Africa
1887		 North West Frontier
1888-1898
West Africa
1892-1894		 North East Frontier
1888-1897
Rhodesia
1896
Bechuanaland
1896-1897
East Africa
1896-1899
2nd Sudan War
1896-1898
West Africa
1898-1899
2nd Anglo-Boer War
1899-1902		 3rd China War
1900
Ashanti War
1900
Somaliland
1901-1904		 Tibet
1904
Conquest of Sokoto
1903
Zulu Rebellion
1906

First World War, 1914-1918

France & Flanders
1914-1918		 Mesopotamia
1914-1918		 North West Frontier
1914-1917
West Africa
1914-1916		 China
1914
Macedonia
1915-1918		 Egypt
1915-1917		 New Guinea
1914
Gallipoli
1915-1916		 Palestine
1917-1918
Irish Rebellion
1916		 Aden
1915-1918		 Persia
1915-1919
Italy
1917-1918		 South West Africa
1914-1916
East Africa
1916-1918		 Baluchistan
1918
 
Russian Civil War
1918-1920		 Mesopotamia
1919-1921		 3rd Afghan War
1919
Rhine Occupation Somaliland
1920		 Moplar Uprising
1921
Irish Civil War
1920-1923		 Waziristan
1919-1923
North West Frontier
1930-1937
Burma
1930-1932

Second World War, 1939-1945

Norway
1940		 Abyssinia
1940-1941		 North West Frontier
1937-1940
North West Europe
1940-1942		 Somaliland
1940		 Persia
1941
Malta
1940-1942		 North Africa
1940-1943		 Hong Kong
1941
Greece & Crete
1941		 Iraq
1941		 Malaya
1941-1942
Aegean & Adriatic
1943-1944		 Syria
1941		 South East Asia
1941-1942
Sicily
1943		 Madagascar
1942		 Dutch East Indies
1942-1946
Italy
1943-1945		 Middle East
1941-1944		 Burma
1942-1945
Greece
1944-1945		 South West Pacific
1942-1945
North West Europe
1944-1945		 South Pacific
1942-1944
 
Germany Occupation
(and NATO)
1945-present		 Palestine
1945-1948		 India & Pakistan
1945-1948
Greece
1945-1947		 Gold Coast
1948		 Malaya
1948-1960
British Honduras
1948		 Trieste
1945-1954		 Eritrea
1948-1951		 Burma
1948-present
Northern Ireland
1947-1948		 Somaliland
1949-1951		 Singapore
1950
Aqaba
1949-1951		 Korean War
1950-1953
British Guiana
1953		 Cyprus
1954-1959		 Kenya
1952-1956		 Singapore
1955-1956
South Arabia
1955-1967		 Hong Kong
1956
Suez
1956
Belize
1957		 Bahrain
1956-1957
Muscat & Oman
1957-1959
Togoland
1957
Jordan
1958
Lebanon
1958
Congo Civil Wars
1960-1965		 Indonesian Confrontasi
1960-1966
Jamaica
1960		 Cameroons
1960		 Vietnam
1960-1973
Bahamas
1961		 Kuwait
1961
British Guiana
1962-1963		 Zanzibar
1963-1964		 India-China War
1962
Belize
1962		 Cyprus
1963-present		 Swaziland
1963-1966
Sudan Civil War
1963-present		 India-Pakistan War
1965
Kenya-Uganda-
Tanganyika Mutiny
1964		 Mauritius
1965
Rhodesia Civil War
1964-1980
South West Africa
1965-1989
Oman
1965-1977		 Hong Kong
1966-1967
Anguilla
1969		 Northern Ireland
1969-present		 Libya
1967
Arab-Israeli War
1967
Nigerian Civil War
1967-1970
Jordan Civil War
1970		 India-Pakistan War
1971
Uganda Civil Wars
1971-1979
Rhodesia Civil War
1972-1980
Arab-Israeli War
1973
Lebanon wars
1975-2000
Belize
1976-present		 Ogaden War
1977-1978
Iran-Iraq War
1979-1988
Falkland Islands War
1982		 South Yemen Civil War
1986		 Sri Lanka Civil War
1983-present
Somalia Civil War
1988-present
Balkan Wars
1991-present		 Persian Gulf War
1990-1991
Sierra Leone Civil War
1991-present
Kargil War, 1999