Wars
The wars that took place involving the British East India Company or British India during the Colonial era:
- Anglo-Mysore Wars
- First Anglo-Maratha War
- Second Anglo-Maratha War
- Third Anglo-Maratha War
- First Anglo-Sikh War
- Second Anglo-Sikh War
- Gurkha War
- Burmese Wars
- First Opium War
- Second Opium War
- First Anglo-Afghan War
- Second Anglo-Afghan War
- Third Anglo-Afghan War
- World War I, see List of Indian divisions in World War I, Bombardment of Madras
- World War II
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