Military History of The United Kingdom - 18th Century

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