List of wars involving England facts for kids
This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of England before the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain by the Acts of Union 1707. For dates after 1708, see List of wars involving the United Kingdom.
- English victory - 33
- English defeat - 29
- Another result * - 12
*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive
Contents
10th and 11th centuries
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
927 | 937 | Æthelstan's invasion of Scotland | England |
Scotland |
Stalemate
|
946 | 954 | Northumbria's war of independence | England Earl of Bamburgh |
Northumbria |
Victory
|
1016 | 1016 | Cnut the Great's invasion of England | England |
Kingdom of Denmark Cnut the Great |
Defeat
|
1066 | 1088 | Norman Conquest of England | England |
Duchy of Normandy William of Normandy |
Defeat
|
1067 | 1081 | Norman invasion of Wales | England | Welsh kingdoms | Defeat
|
1075 | 1075 | Revolt of the Earls | William I of England | Three earls
|
Internal Conflict, William was Victorious
|
1096 | 1099 | First Crusade | England Holy Roman Empire |
Great Seljuq Empire Danishmends |
Victory
|
12th century
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1145 | 1149 | Second Crusade | England (Holy land Crusade) Kingdom of Jerusalem (Holy land Crusade) |
Sultanate of Rum (Holy Land Crusade) Almoravids (Iberian Crusade) |
Partial Crusader Victory
|
1189 | 1192 | Third Crusade | England (Holy land Crusade) Kingdom of Jerusalem |
Ayyubids |
Partial Crusader victory |
13th century
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1202 | 1204 | French invasion of Normandy (1202–1204) | England | France | Defeat |
1209 | 1229 | Albigensian Crusade | Crusade
County of Aurenja
|
|
Crusader Victory |
1213 | 1214 | Anglo-French War (1213–1214) | England Holy Roman Empire County of Flanders |
France | Defeat
|
1230 | 1230 | English invasion of France (1230) | England |
France | Defeat
|
1239 | 1241 | Barons' Crusade | England |
Ayyubids | Crusader Diplomatic Victory |
1242 | 1242 | Saintonge War | England |
France | Defeat |
1271 | 1272 | Ninth Crusade | England Kingdom of Cyprus |
Mamluks | Stalemate
|
1277 | 1283 | Conquest of Wales by Edward I of England | England |
Principality of Wales | English victory |
1294 | 1303 | Anglo-French War | England |
France | Defeat
|
1296 | 1328 | First War of Scottish Independence | England |
Kingdom of Scotland France |
Defeat |
14th century
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1324 | 1324 | War of Saint-Sardos | England |
France | Defeat |
1332 | 1357 | Second War of Scottish Independence | England |
Kingdom of Scotland |
Defeat |
1337 | 1453 | Hundred Years' War | England Duchy of Burgundy |
France Castile |
Defeat: Overall French Victory
|
1351 | 1369 | Castilian Civil War | England Forces of Peter of Castile |
Forces of Henry of Trastámara Kingdom of France Crown of Aragon |
English alliance defeat.
|
1377 | 1575 | Anglo-Scottish Wars | Kingdom of England |
Scotland | Stalemate |
1381 | 1382 | Third Ferdinand War | England |
Castile | Defeat |
1383 | 1385 | 1383–85 Crisis | England |
Crown of Castile Kingdom of France Crown of Aragon |
Victory |
15th century
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1470 | 1474 | Anglo-Hanseatic War | England | Hanseatic League | Defeat, Hanseatic victory |
1496 | 1498 | Italian War of 1494–1498 (1494–1498) |
League of Venice: Papal States |
Kingdom of France | Victory
|
16th century
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1512 | 1514 | War of the League of Cambrai | England Papal States |
France Duchy of Ferrara |
Defeat, French and Venetian victory |
1522 | 1525 | Italian War of 1521–26 | England |
France |
Victory |
1528 | 1529 | War of the League of Cognac | England France |
Spain |
Defeat, Imperial-Spanish victory |
1542 | 1546 | Italian War of 1542–46 | England Holy Roman Empire |
France Ottoman Empire |
Inconclusive |
1543 | 1550 | Rough Wooing | England | Scotland |
Defeat, Treaty of Norham, French-Scottish victory |
1556 | 1559 | Italian War of 1551–59
|
England |
France Republic of Siena |
Defeat, Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, Loss of Calais |
1562 | 1563 | English expedition to France (1562-1563) | England Huguenots (Before Edict of Amboise |
France |
Defeat, Treaty of Troyes (1564), Elizabeth I accepts French rule over Pale of Calais in exchange for 120,000 Crowns. |
1562 | 1598 | French Wars of Religion (1562–1598) |
Protestants: Huguenots England |
Catholics: Catholic League Spain Duchy of Savoy |
Victory
|
1566 | 1648 | Eighty Years' War | England Dutch Republic |
Holy Roman Empire |
Victory
|
1569 | 1573 | First Desmond Rebellion | England Kingdom of Ireland allied Irish clans |
FitzGeralds of Desmond allied Irish clans |
Victory |
1579 | 1583 | Second Desmond Rebellion | England Kingdom of Ireland allied Irish clans |
FitzGeralds of Desmond Spain Papal States allied Irish clans |
Victory
|
1580 | 1583 | War of the Portuguese Succession | England |
Spain |
Defeat
|
1585 | 1604 | Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) | England United Provinces |
Spain French Catholic League |
Stalemate
|
1594 | 1603 | Nine Years' War (Ireland) | England Kingdom of Ireland |
Alliance of Irish clans Spain |
Victory
|
17th century
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1602 | 1661 | Dutch-Portuguese War (1602–1661) | Dutch Republic England (until 1640) Johor Sultanate Kingdom of Kandy Kingdom of Kongo Kingdom of Ndongo |
Kingdom of Portugal Crown of Castile (until 1640) Kingdom of Cochin Potiguara Tupis |
Stalemate
Treaty of Hague
|
1625 | 1630 | Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630) | England Support: |
Spain | Status quo ante bellum
|
1627 | 1629 | Anglo-French War (1627–1629) | England | France | Status quo ante bellum |
1640 | 1668 | Portuguese Restoration War | Kingdom of Portugal France England |
Crown of Spain | Victory
|
1652 | 1654 | First Anglo-Dutch War | Commonwealth of England | Dutch Republic | Victory |
1654 | 1660 | Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) | Commonwealth of England France (1657–59) |
Spain Royalists of the British Isles |
Victory |
1661 | 1665 | Dano-Dutch War | England Denmark–Norway |
Dutch Republic | Victory
|
1665 | 1667 | Second Anglo-Dutch War | England Bishopric of Münster |
Dutch Republic Denmark France |
Defeat
|
1672 | 1674 | Third Anglo-Dutch War | England France Bishopric of Münster Electorate of Cologne |
Dutch Republic Denmark-Norway |
inconclusive/other result
Status quo ante bellum:
|
1672 | 1678 | Franco-Dutch War | England (1672–74) France |
England (1678) Dutch Republic |
Major French territorial gains
|
1686 | 1690 | Anglo-Mughal War | England East India Company |
Mughal Empire | Defeat
|
1687 | 1688 | Anglo-Siamese War | England East India Company |
Kingdom of Ayutthaya (Siam) (Unauthorised piracy by English sailors under Siamese employ) • English defectors |
Inconclusive
English factory rejected from Siam, after minor naval action, along with massacre in the aftermath: the war was not pursued. In 1688, a coup forced the closure of all official European trade in Siam for 150 years except for the Dutch. |
1688 | 1697 | Nine Years' War | Grand Alliance: Dutch Republic England Holy Roman Empire Spanish Empire Duchy of Savoy Swedish Empire (until 1691) Scotland |
France Jacobites |
Victory
|
18th century
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1700 | 1721 | The Great Northern War (1700–1721) |
England (until 1707) Great Britain (from 1707) |
Tsardom of Russia
Cossack Hetmanate |
Inconclusive for England
Russian Allied victory:
|
1701 | 1714 | War of the Spanish Succession | England (until 1707) Great Britain (from 1707) Austrian monarchy Dutch Republic Holy Roman Empire Piedmont-Savoy Prussia Habsburg Spain Kingdom of Portugal |
France Spanish monarchy Bavaria (~1704) Cologne Mantua (~1708) |
Victory
|
Civil wars and revolutions
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
English Government | Rebels | ||||
1069 | 1070 | Harrying of the North | William I of England | House of Wessex |
Internal Conflict, William was Victorious
An uprising which started 4 years after the Norman Conquest. Edgar Ætheling, the grandson of Edmund Ironside and the last notable heir to the House of Wessex, fought with the support of the King of Denmark Sweyn II, Anglo-Saxons, and Anglo-Scandinavians. It ended in defeat for the Anglo-Saxons & Anglo-Scandinavians. William the Conqueror paid Sweyn and his Danish fleet to go home, but the remaining rebels refused to meet him in battle, and he decided to starve them out by laying waste to the northern shires using scorched earth tactics. The Norman campaign to reconquer Northern England resulted in a genocide against the people living there. |
1070 | 1071 | Ely Rebellion | William I of England | King of Denmark Sweyn II Hereward the Wake Morcar Bishop Aethelwine of Durham |
Internal Conflict, William Victorius
An anti-Norman insurrection centred on the Isle of Ely. The Danish king Sweyn Estrithson sent a small army to try to establish a camp on the Isle of Ely. The Isle became a refuge for Anglo-Saxon forces under Earl Morcar, Bishop Aethelwine of Durham and Hereward the Wake in 1071. The area was taken by William the Conqueror only after a prolonged struggle. |
1088 | 1088 | Rebellion of 1088 | England William Rufus |
Duchy of Normandy Robert Curthose |
Internal Conflict, William Rufus Victorius |
1135 | 1154 | The Anarchy | Supporters of Stephen of Blois | Supporters of Empress Matilda and Henry Curtmantle | Civil War
|
1173 | 1174 | Revolt of 1173–74 | English royalists | English rebels Kingdom of France Kingdom of Scotland County of Flanders County of Boulogne Duchy of Brittany |
Internal Conflict |
1215 | 1217 | First Barons' War | England |
Rebel Barons |
Civil War, Angevinian victory
|
1264 | 1267 | Second Barons' War | English royalists | Rebel barons | Civil War, Royalist victory
|
1264 | 1267 | Welsh Uprising (1282) | English royalists | Dafydd ap Gruffydd | Internal Conflict, Royalist victory |
1321 | 1322 | Despenser War | England |
Contrariants
Supported by: Kingdom of Scotland |
Civil War, Decisive Royal victory
|
1326 | 1326 | Invasion of England (1326) | Royal government Edward II (POW) |
Contrariants Supported by: |
Civil War, Contrariants' victory
Continuation of the Despenser War. Isabella of France, and her lover, Roger Mortimers invasion led to:
|
1381 | 1381 | Peasants' Revolt | Royal government | Rebel forces | Internal Conflict, Royal government victorious
|
1400 | 1415 | Glyndŵr Rising Part of the Hundred Years' War |
England |
Welsh rebels Kingdom of France |
Internal Conflict, Total English victory |
1455 | 1485 | Wars of the Roses | House of York Supported by: |
House of Lancaster House of Tudor Supported by: |
Civil War, Victory for the House of Lancaster and their allies
|
1497 | 1497 | Cornish Rebellion of 1497 | England Henry VII |
Cornish rebels |
Internal Conflict, English victory |
1549 | 1549 | Prayer Book Rebellion | England Edward VI |
Southwestern Catholic Rebels Sir Humphrey Arundell |
Internal Conflict, Edwardian victory
|
1639 | 1651 | Wars of the Three Kingdoms | Royalists |
Parliamentarians
Scottish Covenanters |
Civil War, Parliamentarian victory Bishops' Wars (1639)
Second Bishops' War (1640)
First English Civil War (1642–46)
Irish Confederate Wars (1642–48)
Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644–47)
Second English Civil War (1648)
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
Third English Civil War (1650–1652)
|
1685 | 1685 | Monmouth Rebellion | Royal army of James II | Rebel army of Duke of Monmouth | Internal Conflict, Victory for James II |
1688 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution | James II | William of Orange Dutch military forces British military forces |
Internal Conflict
|
1689 | 1746 | Jacobite Rebellions | England (until 1707) Great Britain (from 1707) |
Jacobites | Civil War, Royalist victory in England, Scotland and Ireland
|
See also
- List of English civil wars
- List of wars in Great Britain
- Military history of England
- List of wars involving England and France
- List of wars involving the United Kingdom