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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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