British Battles

You are here: Home / 100 Years War / Battle of Shrewsbury

Battle of Shrewsbury

The savage battle on 21st July 1403 that abruptly ended Harry Hotspur’s attempt to wrest the throne of England from King Henry IV

Death of Harry 'Hotspur' at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403
Death of Harry ‘Hotspur’ at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403

The previous battle of the Hundred Years War is the Battle of Homildon Hill

The next battle of the Hundred Years War is the Siege of Harfleur

To the 100 Years War index



War: Hundred Years War.

Date of the Battle of Shrewsbury: 21st July 1403

Place of the Battle of Shrewsbury: at Shrewsbury in the west of England

Combatants at the Battle of Shrewsbury: The armies of King Henry IV and Prince Henry of Monmouth, the Price of Wales against the rebel armies of Harry ‘Hotspur’ Percy and his uncle, the Earl of Worcester.

King Henry IV: Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403
King Henry IV: Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403

Commanders at the Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV, advised and assisted by the Scots nobleman, George Dunbar, Earl of March, commanded the royal army. Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy, supported by the Scotsman Archibald, Fourth Earl of Douglas commanded the rebel army.

Size of the armies at the Battle of Shrewsbury: There were perhaps 8,000 to 10,000 men on each side with Hotspur’s rebel army being the larger.

A force of Welsh troops was on its way to join Hotspur but failed to arrive in time for the battle.

Harry 'Hotspur' at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403: print by Stanley L. Wood
Death of Harry ‘Hotspur’, killed by an arrow in the face at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403: print by Stanley L. Wood

Uniforms, arms and equipment at the Battle of Shrewsbury: Knights increasingly wore steel plate armour with visored helmets. Their weapons were lance, shield, sword, various forms of mace or club and dagger. Many carried two-handed swords in battle. Each knight wore his coat of arms on his surcoat and shield.

English archers carried a powerful bow.

For hand-to-hand combat archers carried swords, daggers, hatchets and war hammers. They wore jackets and loose hose. Archers’ headgear was a skull cap either of boiled leather or wickerwork ribbed with a steel frame.

Winner of the Battle of Shrewsbury: A decisive victory for King Henry IV, with the death of ‘Hotspur’ Percy and the capture of the Earl of Douglas and the collapse of Hotspur’s rebellion against the King.

Events leading to the Battle of Shrewsbury:

In 1399 Henry Bolingbroke overthrew King Richard II and took the throne of England, becoming King Henry IV.

Richard was imprisoned in Pontefract Castle where he died, probably starved to death on Henry’s orders.

For the rest of his reign Henry IV faced opposition and revolt, with claims being made that Richard II was still alive.

Much of the support for these rebellions came from Cheshire, a county with strong links to King Richard II.

In early 1402 a Scots army, raised and commanded by Archibald, Fourth Earl of Douglas, invaded the north of England, at the instigation of the King of France, who sent a small body of French knights to fight with the Scots.

After ravaging areas of Northumberland, the Scots army was returning to Scotland, when it was intercepted by an English army led by the Earl of Northumberland and his son Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy.

The English army was accompanied by the Scots nobleman George Dunbar, Earl of March.

The battle between the Scots and English armies took place at Homildon Hill near the Northumberland town of Wooler on 7th May 1402.

The Scots were heavily defeated, decimated by the arrow discharges of the English archers.

Some eighty Scottish nobles and knights were taken prisoner together with two French knights.

It was the convention of the time that prisoners taken in battle became the property of the captor who was entitled to ransom the prisoner and retain whatever sum was raised by the ransom.

The Earl of Douglas, recovering from the wound he received in the battle, was the prisoner of Hotspur who expected to receive a substantial amount from the ransom of Douglas and his other prisoners.

It was apparent to King Henry IV that the ability of Scotland to wage war against England would be severely hampered if these senior and experienced soldiers remained prisoners of the English.

The King directed that the Scots prisoners were not to be ransomed and that Douglas was to be delivered into royal custody.

Hotspur refused to hand over Douglas.

Resentment at the attempt to deprive them of their legitimate spoils of war appears to have been the trigger for Hotspur and his father the Earl of Northumberland to revolt against King Henry IV.

An additional source of grievance for the Percies was the King’s promotion of the interests of his brother-in-law, Ralph Neville, Early of Westmorland, the Percies’ rival in the Border Region. Neville’s main area of influence was on the Western Border with Scotland, while the Percies’ was in Northumberland on the Eastern Border.

It was a grave error on the part of King Henry IV to alienate the Percies, with their wide influence in the North of England, Yorkshire and the western Midlands and Welsh Borders and their intensely loyal following among the tenants of their extensive estates in these areas.

It seems likely that Hotspur made an agreement with the Earl of Douglas to release him without ransom if Douglas would join the Percy revolt against King Henry IV.

In April 1403, Hotspur invaded the Douglas estates in Teviotdale and besieged a minor castle called Cocklaws.

Douglas accompanied Hotspur and seems to have used the invasion as the opportunity to raise troops among his tenants to serve in Hotspur’s rebel army.

The Percies also corresponded with the Welsh leader Owen Glendower and an agreement was reached to act in concert against the King.

Glendower raised an army in Carmarthenshire and captured Carmarthen Castle, causing the Welsh to rise in rebellion along the border.

King Henry IV was marching north, intending to join the Percies invasion of Scotland, when he learned at Nottingham that the Percies were in rebellion against him.

Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403
Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403

Hotspur had left the Cocklaws army and marched south with the Earl of Douglas and a small band of men-at-arms. Hotspur reached Cheshire on his way to the Welsh Borders and raised a new army from his family’s supporters in the county, also sending messages to potential supporters across England.

Hotspur claimed that King Richard II was still alive and was with his father, the Earl of Northumberland, in the North of England. This was untrue, as Hotspur knew.

In the meantime, the Earl of Northumberland brought his army back to England from Scotland and remained to recruit troops from Northumberland and the north of Yorkshire, with the intention of following his son to the Welsh Borders.

Hotspur decided to lead his army to Shrewsbury and attack the Prince of Wales’s army there, without waiting for his father, now delayed in raising his army in the North.

A Welsh army moved towards Lichfield to intercept the King’s army.

The King was advised by Henry Dunbar, Earl of March, who was marching with him, to advance as quickly as possible to Shrewsbury, combine with the Prince’s army and give battle to Hotspur before the Earl of Northumberland could reinforce him with his northern army.

Dunbar urged the King not to await the arrival of the troops he had summoned from across England but to attack Hotspur without delay.

Map of the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403: battle map by John Fawkes
Map of the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403: battle map by John Fawkes

Account of the Battle of Shrewsbury:

King Henry IV’s army reached Shrewsbury on 20th July 1403 and joined the Prince of Wales’s army.

Hotspur’s army reached Shrewsbury later the same day.

The King’s and Prince’s armies were drawn up in battle array and advanced on Hotspur’s camp, taking him by surprise.

There were some desultory and inconclusive negotiations, but Dunbar urged the King to launch an immediate attack, advice that he adopted.

Both sides suffered heavily from the opening volleys of arrows before the men at arms engaged, leading to a savage fight between the two armies.

Percy and Douglas at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403: print by Stanley L. Wood
Percy and Douglas at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403: print by Stanley L. Wood

Hotspur and Douglas charged towards the man they thought to be King Henry IV, but there were a number of men acting as the King’s double, dressed in the King’s livery and accompanied by a royal standard and distributed throughout the Royal Army, a ploy that seems to have been arranged by Dunbar.

Accompanied only by their immediate retainers, Hotspur and Douglas found themselves cut off in the midst of the Royal army, where Hotspur was killed and Douglas wounded and captured.

The cry that Hotspur was dead went up across the battlefield and the rebel army began to melt away, leaving its leaders to be taken prisoner.

Casualties at the Battle of Shrewsbury:

The corpses on the battlefield were counted and found to number 1,847, mostly rebels.

An additional 3,000 corpses were found over the route of the three-mile flight of the rebels from the field.

All the surviving rebel leaders were captured, Douglas becoming an English prisoner for the second time within the year.

Follow-up to the Battle of Shrewsbury:

The Earl of Northumberland had been long delayed in raising his army in Yorkshire.

Marching south to join his son, Hotspur, Northumberland was confronted by an army led by the Earl of Westmorland.

Northumberland retreated north before appearing before King Henry and submitting to him.

While initially stripped of his offices and domains, Northumberland was reinstated and his lands returned to him. The Percies were too important for the defence of the North of England against Scottish aggression to be dispensed with.

Anecdotes and traditions from the Battle of Shrewsbury:

John Bradmore extractng the arrow head from the cheek of Henry of Monmouth after the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403
John Bradmore extractng the arrow head from the cheek of Henry of Monmouth after the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403
  • Hotspur was struck and killed by an arrow in the face when he opened his visor during the battle. He was buried near the battlefield. Hotspur’s body was later disinterred and his head exhibited on one of the gates of York. Hotspur’s uncle, the Earl of Worcester, was executed for treason the day after the battle, as were all the captured rebel leaders.
  • King Henry IV’s son, the 16-year-old Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, later King Henry V, was struck in the face by an arrow during the Battle of Shrewsbury. The arrow penetrated deep into his cheek by the nose. The prince refused to leave the battlefield to seek treatment until the battle was won, in case his premature departure discouraged his men. After the battle, Prince Henry was treated by the eminent London surgeon John Bradmore. The arrow shaft was removed leaving the arrowhead deeply embedded in the Prince’s face. Bradmore worked an especially constructed tool into the Prince’s cheek with which he extracted the arrowhead. He then treated the wound with a mixture of flour, barley, honey and flax until the Prince recovered. Bradmore’s achievement brought him considerable acclaim and reward. It is reported that Bradmore was brought from prison where he was serving a sentence for forging currency to treat the Prince.
John Bradmore's implement for extractng the arrow head from the cheek of Henry of Monmouth after the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403 with the arrow head attached
John Bradmore’s implement for extractng the arrow head from the cheek of Henry of Monmouth after the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21st July 1403 with the arrow head attached

References for the Battle of Shrewsbury:

Cursed Kings, Volume IV of the four-volume record of the Hundred Years War by Jonathan Sumption.

The Art of War in the Middle Ages Volume Two by Sir Charles Oman.

British Battles by Grant.

The previous battle of the Hundred Years War is the Battle of Homildon Hill

The next battle of the Hundred Years War is the Siege of Harfleur

To the 100 Years War index



Search BritishBattles.com

Follow / Like Us

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Pinterest  Follow us on RSS Follow us on Twitter

Other Pages

  • Home
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy
  • News Blog
  • Museums

The BritishBattles Podcast

If you are too busy to read the site, why not download a podcast of an individual battle and listen on the move! Visit our dedicated Podcast page or visit Podbean below.

Britishbattles on Podbean

Follow @Britishbattles













Wars Prior to 1700

  • Wars of Roman Britain
  • Battle of Medway
  • Danish Wars
  • Battle of Ashdown
  • Norman Conquest
  • Battle of Stamford Bridge
  • Battle of Hastings
  • Barons’ War
  • Battle of the Standard
  • Battle of Lewes
  • Battle of Evesham
  • Scottish Wars of Independence
  • Battle of Stirling Bridge
  • Battle of Falkirk
  • Battle of Bannockburn
  • Battle of Dupplin Moor
  • Battle of Halidon Hill
  • 100 Years War
  • Battle of Sluys
  • Battle of Morlaix
  • Battle of Auberoche
  • Battle of Caen
  • Battle of Creçy
  • Siege of Calais
  • Battle of Neville’s Cross
  • Battle of La Roche-Derrien
  • Battle of Winchelsea
  • Battle of Mauron
  • Battle of Poitiers
  • Battle of Cocherel
  • Battle of Auray
  • Battle of Najera
  • Battle of La Rochelle
  • Battle of Otterburn
  • Battle of Homildon Hill
  • Battle of Shrewsbury
  • Siege of Harfleur
  • Battle of Agincourt
  • Battle of Baugé
  • Battle of Cravant
  • Battle of Verneuil
  • Siege of Orléans
  • Battle of the Herrings
  • Battle of Patay
  • Battle of Formigny
  • Battle of Castillon
  • Wars of the Roses
  • First Battle of St Albans
  • Battle of Blore Heath
  • Battle of Northampton
  • Battle of Wakefield 1460
  • Battle of Mortimer’s Cross
  • Second Battle of St Albans
  • Battle of Towton
  • Battle of Barnet
  • Battle of Tewkesbury
  • Battle of Bosworth Field
  • Anglo Scottish War
  • Battle of Flodden
  • Battle of Pinkie
  • The Spanish War
  • The Spanish Armada
  • English Civil War
  • Battle of Edgehill
  • Battle of Seacroft Moor
  • Battle of Stratton
  • Battle of Wakefield 1643
  • Battle of Chalgrove
  • Battle of Adwalton Moor
  • Battle of Lansdown Hill
  • Battle of Roundway Down
  • Storming of Bristol
  • First Battle of Newbury
  • Battle of Cheriton
  • Battle of Cropredy Bridge
  • Battle of Marston Moor
  • Battle of Lostwithiel
  • Second Battle of Newbury
  • Battle of Naseby
  • Siege of Basing House
  • Battle of Dunbar
  • Battle of Worcester

Wars of 1700

  • War of the Spanish Succession
  • Battle of Blenheim
  • Battle of Ramillies
  • Battle of Oudenarde
  • Battle of Malplaquet
  • King George’s War (Austrian Succession)
  • Battle of Dettingen
  • Battle of Fontenoy
  • Battle of Rocoux
  • Battle of Lauffeldt
  • Jacobite Rebellion
  • Battle of Prestonpans
  • Battle of Falkirk
  • Battle of Culloden
  • Frederick the Great Wars
  • First Silesian War
  • Battle of Mollwitz
  • Battle of Chotusitz
  • Second Silesian War
  • Battle of Hohenfriedberg
  • Battle of Soor
  • Battle of Kesselsdorf
  • Seven Years War
  • Battle of Lobositz
  • Battle of Prague
  • Battle of Kolin
  • Battle of Rossbach
  • Battle of Leuthen
  • Battle of Zorndorf
  • Battle of Hochkirch
  • Battle of Kunersdorf
  • Battle of Liegnitz
  • Battle of Torgau
  • Battle of Burkersdorf
  • Battle of Minden
  • Battle of Emsdorf
  • Battle of Warburg
  • Battle of Kloster Kamp
  • Battle of Vellinghausen
  • Battle of Wilhelmstahl
  • Capture of Manila
  • Capture of Havana
  • Anglo-French Wars in India
  • Siege of Arcot
  • Battle of Arni
  • Battle of Kaveripauk
  • Battle of Plassey
  • French and Indian War
  • Battle of Monongahela 1755 – Braddock’s Defeat
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 1
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 2
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 3
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 4
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 5
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 6
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 7
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 8
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 9
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 10
  • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 11
  • Battle of Ticonderoga 1758
  • Capture of Louisburg 1758
  • Battle of Quebec 1759
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord
  • Battle of Bunker Hill
  • Battle of Quebec 1775
  • Battle of Sullivan’s Island
  • Battle of Long Island
  • Battle of Harlem Heights
  • Battle of White Plains
  • Battle of Fort Washington
  • Battle of Trenton
  • Battle of Princeton
  • Battle of Ticonderoga 1777
  • Battle of Hubbardton
  • Battle of Bennington
  • Battle of Brandywine Creek
  • Battle of Freeman’s Farm
  • Battle of Paoli
  • Battle of Germantown
  • Battle of Saratoga
  • Battle of Monmouth
  • Siege of Savannah
  • Siege of Charleston
  • Battle of Camden
  • Battle of King’s Mountain
  • Battle of Cowpens
  • Battle of Guilford Courthouse
  • Battle of Yorktown
  • Siege of Gibraltar
  • Battle of Cape St Vincent 1780
  • Anglo-Mysore Wars
  • Storming of Seringapatam

Wars of 1800

  • Second Mahratta War
  • Battle of Assaye
  • Battle of Laswaree
  • Peninsular War
  • Battle of Roliça
  • Battle of Vimeiro
  • Battle of Sahagun
  • Battle of Benavente
  • Battle of Cacabelos
  • Battle of Corunna
  • Battle of the Douro
  • Battle of Talavera
  • Battle of the River Coa
  • Battle of Busaco
  • Battle of Barrosa
  • Battle of Campo Maior
  • Battle of Redinha or Pombal
  • Battle of Sabugal
  • Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro
  • Battle of Albuera
  • Battle of Usagre
  • Battle of El Bodon
  • Battle of Arroyo Molinos
  • Storming of Ciudad Rodrigo
  • Storming of Badajoz
  • Battle of Villagarcia
  • Battle of Almaraz
  • Battle of Salamanca
  • Battle of Garcia Hernandez
  • Battle of Majadahonda
  • Attack on Burgos
  • Retreat from Burgos
  • Battle of Morales de Toro
  • Battle of San Millan and Osma
  • Battle of Vitoria
  • Storming of San Sebastian
  • Battle of the Pyrenees
  • Battle of San Marcial
  • Battle of the Bidassoa
  • Battle of the Nivelle
  • Battle of the Nive
  • Battle of St Pierre
  • Battle of Orthez
  • Battle of Tarbes
  • Battle of Toulouse
  • Sortie from Bayonne
  • Napoleonic Wars
  • Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797
  • Battle of the Nile
  • Battle of Alexandria
  • Battle of Copenhagen
  • Battle of Trafalgar
  • Battle of Maida
  • Battle of Quatre Bras
  • Battle of Waterloo
  • First Afghan War
  • Battle of Ghuznee
  • Battle of Kabul and the retreat to Gandamak
  • Siege of Jellalabad
  • Battle of Kabul 1842
  • First Sikh War
  • Battle of Moodkee
  • Battle of Ferozeshah
  • Battle of Aliwal
  • Battle of Sobraon
  • Second Sikh War
  • Battle of Ramnagar
  • Battle of Chillianwallah
  • Battle of Goojerat
  • Crimean War
  • Battle of The Alma
  • Battle of Balaclava
  • Battle of Inkerman
  • Siege of Sevastopol
  • Indian Mutiny
  • Siege of Delhi
  • American Civil War
  • First Battle of Bull Run
  • Battle of Shiloh
  • Battle of Antietam
  • Battle of Fredericksburg
  • Battle of Chancellorsville
  • Abyssinian War
  • Battle of Magdala
  • Second Afghan War
  • Battle of Ali Masjid
  • Battle of Peiwar Kotal
  • Battle of Futtehabad
  • Battle of Charasiab
  • Battle of Kabul 1879
  • Battle of Ahmed Khel
  • Battle of Maiwand
  • Battle of Kandahar
  • Zulu War
  • Battle of Isandlwana
  • Battle of Rorke’s Drift
  • Battle of Khambula
  • Battle of Gingindlovu
  • Battle of Ulundi
  • War in Egypt and Sudan
  • Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
  • Battle of El Teb
  • Battle of Tamai
  • Battle of Abu Klea
  • Battle of Atbara
  • Battle of Omdurman
  • First Boer War
  • Battle of Laing’s Nek
  • Battle of Majuba Hill
  • Great Boer War
  • Battle of Talana Hill
  • Battle of Elandslaagte
  • Battle of Ladysmith
  • Battle of Belmont
  • Battle of Graspan
  • Battle of Modder River
  • Battle of Stormberg
  • Battle of Magersfontein
  • Battle of Colenso
  • Battle of Spion Kop
  • Battle of Val Krantz
  • Battle of Pieters
  • Battle of Paardeberg
  • Siege of Mafeking
  • Siege of Kimberley
  • Siege of Ladysmith
  • North-West Frontier of India
  • Black Mountain Expedition 1888
  • Black Mountain Expedition 1891
  • Waziristan 1894
  • Siege and Relief of Chitral
  • Malakand Rising 1897
  • Malakand Field Force 1897
  • Mohmand Field Force 1897
  • Tirah 1897

Wars of 1900

  • First World War
  • British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
  • Battle of Mons
  • Battle of Mons (2nd Day): Elouges
  • Battle of Landrecies
  • Battle of Le Cateau
  • Battle of Le Grand Fayt
  • Battle of Étreux
  • Battle of Heligoland Bight
  • Battle of Néry
  • Battle of Villers Cottérêts
  • Battle of the Marne
  • Battle of the Aisne
  • Texel Action
  • Battle of Coronel
  • Battle of the Falkland Islands
  • Battle of the Dogger Bank
  • Gallipoli Part I : Naval Attack on the Dardanelles
  • Gallipoli Part II: Land attack on Gallipoli Peninsular
  • Gallipoli Part III: ANZAC landing on 25th April 1915
  • Gallipoli Part IV: First landings at Cape Helles and Y Beach on 25th April 1915
  • Battle of Jutland Part I: Opposing fleets
  • Battle of Jutland Part II: Opening Battle Cruiser action on 31st May 1916
  • Battle of Jutland Part III: Clash between British and German Battle Fleets during the evening 31st May 1916
  • Battle of Jutland Part IV: Night Action 31st May to 1st June 1916
  • Battle of Jutland Part V: Casualties and Aftermath
  • Home



Copyright © 2025 · Chalfont Web Design

MENU
  • Wars Prior to 1700
    • Wars of Roman Britain
      • Battle of Medway
    • Danish Wars
      • Battle of Ashdown
    • Norman Conquest
      • Battle of Stamford Bridge
      • Battle of Hastings
    • Barons’ War
      • Battle of the Standard
      • Battle of Lewes
      • Battle of Evesham
    • Scottish Wars of Independence
      • Battle of Stirling Bridge
      • Battle of Falkirk
      • Battle of Bannockburn
      • Battle of Dupplin Moor
      • Battle of Halidon Hill
    • 100 Years War
      • Battle of Sluys
      • Battle of Morlaix
      • Battle of Auberoche
      • Battle of Caen
      • Battle of Creçy
      • Siege of Calais
      • Battle of Neville’s Cross
      • Battle of La Roche-Derrien
      • Battle of Winchelsea
      • Battle of Mauron
      • Battle of Poitiers
      • Battle of Cocherel
      • Battle of Auray
      • Battle of Najera
      • Battle of La Rochelle
      • Battle of Otterburn
      • Battle of Homildon Hill
      • Battle of Shrewsbury
      • Siege of Harfleur
      • Battle of Agincourt
      • Battle of Baugé
      • Battle of Cravant
      • Battle of Verneuil
      • Siege of Orléans
      • Battle of the Herrings
      • Battle of Patay
      • Battle of Formigny
      • Battle of Castillon
    • Wars of the Roses
      • First Battle of St Albans
      • Battle of Blore Heath
      • Battle of Northampton
      • Battle of Wakefield 1460
      • Battle of Mortimer’s Cross
      • Second Battle of St Albans
      • Battle of Towton
      • Battle of Barnet
      • Battle of Tewkesbury
      • Battle of Bosworth Field
    • Anglo Scottish War
      • Battle of Flodden
      • Battle of Pinkie
    • The Spanish War
      • The Spanish Armada
    • English Civil War
      • Battle of Edgehill
      • Battle of Seacroft Moor
      • Battle of Stratton
      • Battle of Wakefield 1643
      • Battle of Chalgrove
      • Battle of Adwalton Moor
      • Battle of Lansdown Hill
      • Battle of Roundway Down
      • Storming of Bristol
      • First Battle of Newbury
      • Battle of Cheriton
      • Battle of Cropredy Bridge
      • Battle of Marston Moor
      • Battle of Lostwithiel
      • Second Battle of Newbury
      • Battle of Naseby
      • Siege of Basing House
      • Battle of Dunbar
      • Battle of Worcester
  • Wars of 1700
    • War of the Spanish Succession
      • Battle of Blenheim
      • Battle of Ramillies
      • Battle of Oudenarde
      • Battle of Malplaquet
    • King George’s War (Austrian Succession)
      • Battle of Dettingen
      • Battle of Fontenoy
      • Battle of Rocoux
      • Battle of Lauffeldt
    • Jacobite Rebellion
      • Battle of Prestonpans
      • Battle of Falkirk
      • Battle of Culloden
    • Frederick the Great Wars
    • First Silesian War
      • Battle of Mollwitz
      • Battle of Chotusitz
    • Second Silesian War
      • Battle of Hohenfriedberg
      • Battle of Soor
      • Battle of Kesselsdorf
    • Seven Years War
      • Battle of Lobositz
      • Battle of Prague
      • Battle of Kolin
      • Battle of Rossbach
      • Battle of Leuthen
      • Battle of Zorndorf
      • Battle of Hochkirch
      • Battle of Kunersdorf
      • Battle of Liegnitz
      • Battle of Torgau
      • Battle of Burkersdorf
      • Battle of Minden
      • Battle of Emsdorf
      • Battle of Warburg
      • Battle of Kloster Kamp
      • Battle of Vellinghausen
      • Battle of Wilhelmstahl
      • Capture of Manila
      • Capture of Havana
    • Anglo-French Wars in India
      • Siege of Arcot
      • Battle of Arni
      • Battle of Kaveripauk
      • Battle of Plassey
    • French and Indian War
      • Battle of Monongahela 1755 – Braddock’s Defeat
      • General Braddock’s Defeat on the Monongahela in 1755 I
      • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 2
      • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 3
      • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 4
      • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 5
      • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 6
      • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 7
      • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 8
      • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 9
      • Braddock’s Defeat: Part 10
      • Battle of Ticonderoga 1758
      • Capture of Louisburg 1758
      • Battle of Quebec 1759
    • American Revolutionary War
      • Battle of Lexington and Concord
      • Battle of Bunker Hill
      • Battle of Quebec 1775
      • Battle of Sullivan’s Island
      • Battle of Long Island
      • Battle of Harlem Heights
      • Battle of White Plains
      • Battle of Fort Washington
      • Battle of Trenton
      • Battle of Princeton
      • Battle of Ticonderoga 1777
      • Battle of Hubbardton
      • Battle of Bennington
      • Battle of Brandywine Creek
      • Battle of Freeman’s Farm
      • Battle of Paoli
      • Battle of Germantown
      • Battle of Saratoga
      • Battle of Monmouth
      • Siege of Savannah
      • Siege of Charleston
      • Battle of Camden
      • Battle of King’s Mountain
      • Battle of Cowpens
      • Battle of Guilford Courthouse
      • Battle of Yorktown
      • Siege of Gibraltar
      • Battle of Cape St Vincent 1780
    • Anglo-Mysore Wars
      • Storming of Seringapatam
  • Wars of 1800
    • Second Mahratta War
      • Battle of Assaye
      • Battle of Laswaree
    • Peninsular War
      • Battle of Roliça
      • Battle of Vimeiro
      • Battle of Sahagun
      • Battle of Benavente
      • Battle of Cacabelos
      • Battle of Corunna
      • Battle of the Douro
      • Battle of Talavera
      • Battle of the River Coa
      • Battle of Busaco
      • Battle of Barrosa
      • Battle of Campo Maior
      • Battle of Redinha or Pombal
      • Battle of Sabugal
      • Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro
      • Battle of Albuera
      • Battle of Usagre
      • Battle of El Bodon
      • Battle of Arroyo Molinos
      • Storming of Ciudad Rodrigo
      • Storming of Badajoz
      • Battle of Villagarcia
      • Battle of Almaraz
      • Battle of Salamanca
      • Battle of Garcia Hernandez
      • Battle of Majadahonda
      • Attack on Burgos
      • Retreat from Burgos
      • Battle of Morales de Toro
      • Battle of San Millan and Osma
      • Battle of Vitoria
      • Storming of San Sebastian
      • Battle of the Pyrenees
      • Battle of San Marcial
      • Battle of the Bidassoa
      • Battle of the Nivelle
      • Battle of the Nive
      • Battle of St Pierre
      • Battle of Orthez
      • Battle of Tarbes
      • Battle of Toulouse
      • Sortie from Bayonne
    • Napoleonic Wars
      • Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797
      • Battle of the Nile
      • Battle of Alexandria
      • Battle of Copenhagen
      • Battle of Trafalgar
      • Battle of Maida
      • Battle of Quatre Bras
      • Battle of Waterloo
    • First Afghan War
      • Battle of Ghuznee
      • Battle of Kabul and the retreat to Gandamak
      • Siege of Jellalabad
      • Battle of Kabul 1842
    • First Sikh War
      • Battle of Moodkee
      • Battle of Ferozeshah
      • Battle of Aliwal
      • Battle of Sobraon
    • Second Sikh War
      • Battle of Ramnagar
      • Battle of Chillianwallah
      • Battle of Goojerat
    • Crimean War
      • Battle of The Alma
      • Battle of Balaclava
      • Battle of Inkerman
      • Siege of Sevastopol
      • Indian Mutiny
      • Siege of Delhi
    • American Civil War
      • First Battle of Bull Run
      • Battle of Shiloh
      • Battle of Antietam
      • Battle of Fredericksburg
      • Battle of Chancellorsville
    • Abyssinian War
      • Battle of Magdala
    • Second Afghan War
      • Battle of Ali Masjid
      • Battle of Peiwar Kotal
      • Battle of Futtehabad
      • Battle of Charasiab
      • Battle of Kabul 1879
      • Battle of Ahmed Khel
      • Battle of Maiwand
      • Battle of Kandahar
    • Zulu War
      • Battle of Isandlwana
      • Battle of Rorke’s Drift
      • Battle of Khambula
      • Battle of Gingindlovu
      • Battle of Ulundi
    • War in Egypt and Sudan
      • Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
      • Battle of El Teb
      • Battle of Tamai
      • Battle of Abu Klea
      • Battle of Atbara
      • Battle of Omdurman
    • First Boer War
      • Battle of Laing’s Nek
      • Battle of Majuba Hill
    • Great Boer War
      • Battle of Talana Hill
      • Battle of Elandslaagte
      • Battle of Ladysmith
      • Battle of Belmont
      • Battle of Graspan
      • Battle of Modder River
      • Battle of Stormberg
      • Battle of Magersfontein
      • Battle of Colenso
      • Battle of Spion Kop
      • Battle of Val Krantz
      • Battle of Pieters
      • Battle of Paardeberg
      • Siege of Mafeking
      • Siege of Kimberley
      • Siege of Ladysmith
    • North-West Frontier of India
      • Black Mountain Expedition 1888
      • Black Mountain Expedition 1891
      • Waziristan 1894
      • Siege and Relief of Chitral
      • Malakand Rising 1897
      • Malakand Field Force 1897
      • Mohmand Field Force 1897
      • Tirah 1897
  • Wars of 1900
    • First World War
      • British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
      • Battle of Mons
      • Battle of Mons (2nd Day): Elouges
      • Battle of Landrecies
      • Battle of Le Cateau
      • Battle of Le Grand Fayt
      • Battle of Étreux
      • Battle of Heligoland Bight
      • Battle of Néry
      • Battle of Villers Cottérêts
      • Battle of the Marne
      • Battle of the Aisne
      • Texel Action
      • Battle of Coronel
      • Battle of the Falkland Islands
      • Battle of the Dogger Bank
      • Gallipoli Part I: Naval Attack on the Dardanelles
      • Gallipoli Part II: Genesis of the land attack on the Gallipoli Peninsula
      • Gallipoli Part III: ANZAC landing on 25th April 1915
      • Gallipoli Part IV: First landings at Cape Helles and Y Beach on 25th April 1915
      • Battle of Jutland Part I: Opposing fleets
      • Battle of Jutland Part II: Opening Battle Cruiser action on 31st May 1916
      • Battle of Jutland Part III: Clash between British and German Battle Fleets during the evening 31st May 1916
      • Battle of Jutland Part IV: Night Action 31st May to 1st June 1916
      • Battle of Jutland Part V: Casualties and Aftermath
  • British Battles