2025 MAR 17 List of wars involving the United Kingdom 1700 – present day 2025 249 WARS

OK Rishi Sunak LET TALK ABOUT DESTRUCTION UK HAS CAUSED IN WAR THEY'VE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATED

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Mar 17, 2025

Without prejudice
OPINION

Rishi Sunak

"people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" 1

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Vladimir Putin must pay for the destruction he has caused in Ukraine.
$300bn in frozen Russian assets sit in Western financial systems. If we don’t act, they could be handed back to Moscow to fund Putin’s next war.
Now is the time to seize them and make Russia pay.

United Kingdom 1700 – present day 2025 249 WARS

KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN (1707–1801) 51 WARS

The Great Northern War (1700–1721)

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)

Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) or the Third Indian War

Post-Spanish Succession Caribbean piracy (1715–1726)

Civil war: (1715–1716) Jacobite rising of 1715 The Jacobite uprising in Cornwall

The War of the Quadruple Alliance (1717–1720)

Civil war: The Nineteen Uprising in Great Britain (1717–1720)

Dummer's War (1721–1725)

The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748)

The War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)

King George's War (1744–1748)

War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748)

The First Carnatic War (1740–1748)

Civil War: Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745–1746)

Father Le Loutre's War a/k/a Indian War, Mi'kmaq War, Anglo-Mi'kmaq (1749–1755)

The Second Carnatic War (1749–1754)

First Polygar War (1755)

Seven Years' War (1756–1763)

Third Carnatic War (1757–1763)

French and Indian War (1754–1763)

Pomeranian War (1757 and 1762)

Third Silesian War (1756 to 1763)

Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763)

Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–1761

Tacky's War (1760–1761)

Bengal War (1763–1765)

Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766)

First Anglo-Mysore War (1766–1769)

First Rohilla War (1773–1774)

First Anglo-Maratha War (1774–1783)

American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)

Anglo-French War (1778–1783)

Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783)

Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1783)

Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784)

Revolt in Bihar (1781)

Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–1792)

War of the First Coalition (1793–1797)

Ibn Ufaisan's invasion (1792)

Ibn Ufaisan's Invasion (1793)

Second Rohilla War (1794)

Fédon's Rebellion (1795–1796)

Second Maroon War (1795–1796)

Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars (1795–1816)

Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)

Kandyan Wars (1796–1818)

War of the Second Coalition (1797–1802)

Irish Rebellion of (1798)

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799)

Second Polygar War (1799)

Third Polygar War (1800–1801)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) 147 WARS

Temne War (1801–1807)

Second Anglo-Maratha War (1802–1805)

First Kandyan War (1803–1805)

Civil War: Emmet's Insurrection (1803)

British Expedition to Ceylon (1803)

War of the Third Coalition (1805–1806)

Vellore Mutiny (1806)

War of the Fourth Coalition (1806–1807)

Ashanti–Fante War (1806–1807)

Anglo-Turkish War (1807–1809)

Gunboat War (1807–1814)

Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)

Peninsular War (1807–1814)

Travancore Rebellion (1808–1809)

War of the Fifth Coalition (1809)

Persian Gulf campaign of (1809)

4th Xhosa War (1811–1812)

War of 1812 (1812–1815)

War of the Sixth Coalition (1812–1814)

Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816)

Second Kandyan War (1815)

War of the Seventh Coalition (Hundred Days) (1815)

Slachter's Nek Rebellion (1815)

Bussa's Rebellion (1816)

Bombardment of Algiers (1816)

Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818)

Paika Rebellion (1817–1818)

Greek War of Independence (1821–1829)

First Anglo–Ashanti War (1823–1831)

Bathurst War (1824)

First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826)

Siege of Bharatpur (1825–1826)

British attack on Berbera (1827)

Revolt of the Mercenaries (1828)

Ahom Rebellion (1828)

Bathurst Rebellion (1830)

Naning War (1831–1832)

Barra War (1831–1832)

Baptist War (1831–1832)

Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1832–1833)

First Carlist War (1833–1840)

Coorg War (1834)

The 6th Xhosa War (1834–1836)

Rebellions of 1837 (1837–1838)

Pastry War also known First Franco–Mexican War (1838–1839)

First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842)

Aden Expedition WAR (1839)

Second Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839–1841)

First Opium War (1839–1842)

Newport Rising (1839)

Mysore Rebellion (1840–1841)

Battle of Congella (1842)

British Conquest of Sindh (1843)

Gwalior Campaign (1843)

Flagstaff War (1845–1846)

Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata (1845–1850)

First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–1846)

Hutt Valley Campaign (1846)

The 7th Xhosa War (1846–1847)

Whanganui Campaign (1847)

Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901)

Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849)

Battle of Tysami (1849)

Battle of Tonkin River (1849)

The 8th Xhosa War aka Mlanjeni's War (1850–1853)

Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)

Eureka Rebellion (1851–1854)

Reduction of Lagos (1851–1852)

Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852–1853)

Crimean War (1853–1856)

The Battle of Muddy Flat (1854)

Second Opium War aka Arrow War (1856–1860)

Anglo-Persian War (1856–1857)

Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857–1858)

Invasion of the Waikato (1863–1864)

Shimonoseki Campaign (1863–1864)

Bombardment of Kagoshima (1863)

Ambela Campaign (1863–1864)

Tauranga Campaign (1864)

Duar War (1864–1865)

Fenian Rising (1867)

British Expedition to Abyssinia (1867–1868)

Klang War (1867–1874)

Nukapu Expedition (1871–1872)

Bombardment of Omoa (1873)

Third Ashanti War (1873–1874)

Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880)

Anglo-Zulu War (1879)

'Urabi Revolt (1879–1882)

Basuto Gun War (1880–1881)

First Boer War (1880–1881)

Mahdist War (1881–1899)

Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885)

Sikkim Expedition (1888)

Hazara Expedition (1888)

Chin-Lushai Expedition (1889–1890)

Anglo-Manipur War (1891)

Hunza-Nagar Campaign (1891)

First Matabele War (1893–1894)

Chitral Expedition (1895)

Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896)

Second Matabele War (1896–1897)

Tochi Expedition (1897)

Siege of Malakand (1897)

Tirah campaign (1897–1898)

Mohmand campaign (1897–1898)

Cretan Revolt (1897–1898)

Benin Expedition of 1897 (1897)

Tirah Campaign (1897–1898)

Second Samoan Civil War (1898–1899)

Six-Day War (1899)

Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901)

Second Boer War (1899–1902)

War of the Golden Stool (1900)

Somaliland Campaign (1900–1920)

Mahsud Waziri blockade (1900–1902)

Anglo-Aro War (1901–1902)

Kano–Sokoto Expedition (1903)

British expedition to Tibet (1903–1904)

Bambatha Rebellion (1906)

Bazar Valley campaign (1908)

Muscat Rebellion (1913–1920)

First World War (1914–1918)

Operations in the Tochi (1914–1915)

Chilembwe uprising (1915)

Kelantan Rebellion (1915)

Peshawar Campaign (1915)

Bussa Rebellion (1915)

Invasion of Darfur (1916)

Easter Rising (1916)

Mohmand Blockade (1916–1917)

Mahsuds Campaign (1917)

Kuki Rebellion of (1917–1919)

Adubi War (1918)

Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920)

Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920)

Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918–1920)

Irish War of Independence (1919–1921)

Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)

Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923)

Kuwait–Najd War (1919–1920)

Waziristan Campaign (1919–1920)

Samakh Raid Syria (1920)

Great Iraqi Revolution of (1920)

Waziristan campaign (1921–1924)

1922 Burao Tax Revolt (1922)

IRA Northern Offensive (1922)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1922–present) 51 WARS

Adwan Rebellion (1923)

Pink's War (1925)

Irene Incident (1927)

Ikhwan Revolt (1927–1930)

Mohmand campaign (1935)

Great Arab Revolt in Palestine (1936–1939)

Waziristan Campaign (1936–1939)

Palestine Emergency (1939–1948)

S-Plan 16 January 1939 – March 1940

Second World War (1939–1945)

Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran (1941)

Northern Campaign 2 September 1942 – December 1944

Afghan tribal revolts of (1944–1947)

Insurgency in Balochistan (1944–1945)

Dekemvriana (1944–1945)

Sheikh Bashir Rebellion (1945)

Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949)

Operation Masterdom (1945–1946)

Greek Civil War (1946–1948)

Corfu Channel incident (1946–1948)

Malayan Emergency (1948–1960)

Korean War (1950–1953)

1951 Anglo-Egyptian War (1951–1952)

Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960)

Opération Ajax (15-19 August 1953)

Jebel Akhdar War (1954–1959)

Cyprus Emergency (1955–1959)

Suez Crisis (1956–1957)

Border Campaign (1956–1962)

First Cod War (1958–1961)

Upper Yafa disturbances (1959)

Brunei Revolt (1962)

Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation (1963–1966)

Dhofar Rebellion (1963–1975)

Aden Emergency (1963–1967)

The Troubles (1968–1998)

Second Cod War (1972–1973)

Third Cod War (1975–1976)

Iranian Embassy siege (1980)

Falklands War (1982)

Multinational Force in Lebanon (1982–1984)

Gulf War (1990–1991)

Bosnian War (1992–1995)

Operation Desert Fox (1998)

Kosovo War (1998–1999)

Sierra Leone Civil War (2000–2002)

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

Iraq War (2003–2009)

First Libyan Civil War (2011)

Operation Shader (2014–present)

Operation Prosperity Guardian (2023–present)