Welcome to the BritishBattles.com web site

General George Washington crossing the Delaware at the
Battle of Trenton on Christmas night 1776 by Emmanuel Leutze
Click here or on image to buy a print

Welcome to Britishbattles.com the site that gives you the battles fought by Britain and its Empire forces from the 18th Century to the end of the 19th Century, illustrated and mapped.

Click on the battle you wish to view in the left margin list. The battles are listed chronologically by war.

We are constantly adding new battles to the collection.

The Duke of Wellington and officers and soldiers of the Allied army at the end of the Battle of Waterloo. Prince William of Orange lies wounded on the stretcher.

Gallery of Military and Naval Art

Please visit our Gallery of Military and Naval Art where you will find many of the best prints of famous and dramatic battle pictures that are available to be purchased on the internet.

All you have to do is search under the war that interests you, click on the picture you wish to buy and you will find all the details you need.

We invite you to view our latest additions:

The Battle of the Nile: Nelson's famous victory over the French fleet on 1st August 1798, leaving Napoleon stranded with his army in Egypt.

The First Afghan War (1839 to 1842) in which Britain suffered the humiliation of a British and Indian force massacred by Afghan tribesmen as they struggled to reach India from Kabul and saw an Army of Retribution exact revenge.
Battles: Ghuznee, Kabul and Gandamak, Jellalabad and Kabul 1842.

The Second Afghan War (1879 to 1882) which saw three British/Indian armies invade Afghanistan, fighting the battles of Ali Masjid and Peiwar Kotal, the death of the British envoy Cavagnari in the Billa Hissar citadel at Kabul and the second invasion of Afghanistan by General Roberts, leading to the battles of the Sherpur Cantonment (Kabul), Ahmed Khel, the disaster of Maiwand and the final victory of Kandahar, following Roberts’ spectacular march from Kabul.
Battles: Ali Masjid, Peiwar Kotal, Charasiab, Kabul 1879, Ahmed Khel, Maiwand and Kandahar.

On our site find:
The death of General Braddock on the Monongahela,
George Washington crossing the Delaware at Trenton,
The Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava,
The attack of Napoleon’s Guard at Waterloo,
Admiral Lord Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar,
General Robert’s famed march from Kabul to Kandahar in the Second Afghan War,
The loss of the guns at the Battle of Colenso in the Second Boer War….

The battles on britishbattles.com detailed, illustrated and mapped………….

The War of the Austrian Succession 1742 to 1748:
Dettingen, Fontenoy, Roucoux and Lauffeldt.

The Jacobite Rebellion 1745 to 1746:
Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden.

The Highland Attack at the Battle of Prestonpans

The Seven Years War 1756 to 1763:
Minden, Emsdorff, Warburg, Kloster Kamp, Vellinghausen and Wilhelmstadt.

Map of the Battle of Minden fought on 1st August 1759 by the Prussians, Hanoverians, Hessians and the British against the French; at which the British infantry made their famous advance against the French cavalry with roses in their hats, an episode celebrated every year by the "Minden Regiments"

The French and Indian War 1755 to 1763:
Braddock on the Monongahela, Ticonderoga 1758, Louisburg and Quebec 1759.

The American Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783:
Concord and Lexington, Bunker Hill, Quebec 1775, Long Island, Harlem Heights, White Plains, Fort Washington, Trenton, Princeton, Ticonderoga 1777, Hubbardton, Bennington, Brandywine Creek, Freeman’s Farm, Paoli, Germantown, Saratoga, Monmouth, Camden, King’s Mountain, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse and Yorktown.

The Peninsular War 1808 to 1814:
Vimeiro, Corunna, Douro, Talavera, Busaco, Barossa, Fuentes de Onoro, Albuera, Salamanca and Vitoria.

The Napoleonic Wars 1802 to 1814:
Trafalgar and Quatre Bras.

THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO 1815.

The First Afghan War 1839 to 1842:
Ghuznee, Kabul and Gandamak, Jellalabad and Kabul 1842.

The Crimean War 1854 to 1856:
Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sevastopol.

Lord Cardigan leads Charge of the Light Brigade
at the Battle of Balaclava

The Second Afghan War 1878 to 1880:
Ali Masjid, Peiwar Kotal, Charisiab, Kabul 1879, Ahmed Khel, Maiwand and Kandahar.

The Zulu War 1878 to 1881:
Isandlwana, Rorke’s Drift, Khambula, Gingindlovu and Ulundi.

The First Boer War 1881:
Laing’s Nek and Majuba.

The Second Boer War 1899 to 1901:
Talana Hill, Elandslaagte, Ladysmith, Belmont and Graspan, Modder River, Stormberg, Magersfontein, Colenso, Spion Kop, Val Krantz and Pieters, Paardeburg, Siege of Mafeking, Siege of Kimberley and Siege of Ladysmith.

There are many more to come. We are currently working on, or planning: The Indian Mutiny, the Sikh Wars, the War of 1812, the War of the Spanish Succession (the Duke of Marlborough) and the Hundred Years War.

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