18th Century
- War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713) - England and Scotland, later Great Britain, Holy Roman Empire, Portugal and Holland, were allied against France and Spain
- Queen Anne's War (1702–1713)
- Jacobite Rebellions 1715-16; 1719; 1745–46) - Civil War
- Clifton Moor Skirmish, near Penrith (1745) - last land battle in England
- Battle of Culloden (1746) - last land battle in Great Britain
- War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720) - Great Britain, France, Austria and Holland v Italy and Spain
- War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1742) - Great Britain v Spain
- War of the Austrian Succession (1742–1748) - Great Britain, Austria and Holland v France and Germany
- King George's War (1744–1748)
- Seven Years' War (1756–1763) - the first "world war"
- French and Indian War (1754–1763) - Great Britain, Hanover, Portugal, and Prussia v Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, and Spain
- Anglo-Cherokee War (1759–1763) - Britain v Cherokee nation
- Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766) - Britain v American Indian coalition
- First Anglo-Mysore War (1766–1769) - Britain v Kingdom of Mysore
- American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) - Britain v United States, France, Netherlands & Spain
- First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) - Britain v Maratha Empire
- Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784) - Britain v Holland
- Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784) - India
- Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–1792) - India
- Australian frontier wars (1788-1930s) - Britain v Australian Aborigines
- French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1802) - Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Russia and Germany v France
- War of the First Coalition (1793–1797)
- War of the Second Coalition (1798–1801)
- Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799) - India
- Irish Rebellion - Britain v United Irishmen and France
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