List of wars involving England
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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 1707, see List of wars involving the United Kingdom. For Scotland, see list of wars involving Scotland
- English victory
- English defeat
- Another result *
*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
Pre-unification
10th and 11th centuries
| Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
| 934 | 934 | Æthelstan's invasion of Scotland | Partial victory
| ||
| 937 | 937 | Battle of Brunanburh | Kingdom of Dublin | Victory | |
| 942 | 942 | Idwal Foel’s war against England | Victory
| ||
| 945 | 945 | Invasion of Strathclyde | Kingdom of Strathclyde | Victory
| |
| 946 | 954 | Northumbria's war of independence | Northumbria | Victory
| |
| 967 | 967 | Invasion of Gwynedd | Victory
| ||
| 991 | 991 | Battle of Maldon | Defeat
| ||
| 1001 | 1001 | First Battle of Alton | Defeat
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| 1001 | 1001 | Battle of Pinhoe | Defeat | ||
| 1004 | 1004 | Battle of Thetford | Victory
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| 1006 | 1006 | Siege of Durham (1006) | Victory | ||
| 1010 | 1010 | Battle of Ringmere | Defeat | ||
| 1011 or 1012 | 1011 or 1012 | Battle of Newmouth (at Sudbourne) | Victory | ||
| 1013 | 1013 | Sweyn Forkbeard’s invasion of England | Defeat
| ||
| 1016 | 1016 | Cnut the Great's invasion of England | Cnut the Great |
Defeat
| |
| 1018 | 1018 | Battle of Carham | Defeat | ||
| 1026 | 1026 | Battle of Helgeå | Victory
| ||
| 1028 | 1029 | Cnut’s invasion of Norway |
|
Victory
| |
| 1031 | 1031 | Cnut’s expedition to Scotland | Victory
| ||
| 1039 | 1039 | Battle of Rhyd Y Groes | Defeat | ||
| 1040 | 1040 | Siege of Durham (1040) | Victory | ||
| 1049 | 1049 | Blockade of Flanders | Victory
| ||
| 1052 | 1052 | Battle of Llanllieni | Defeat | ||
| 1054 | 1054 | Battle of Dunsinane | Victory | ||
| 1062 | 1063 | Campaign against Gruffudd ap Llywelyn | Victory
| ||
| 1064 | 1066 | Breton-Norman War | Victory
| ||
| 1066 | 1066 | Norwegian invasion of England |
Harold Godwinson |
Victory
| |
| 1066 | 1071 | Norman Conquest of England | William of Normandy |
Defeat
| |
| 1067 | 1165 | Norman invasion of Wales | Welsh kingdoms | Indecisive
| |
| 1072 | 1072 | Norman invasion of Scotland | Victory
| ||
| 1076 | 1077 | The Breton War | Defeat
| ||
| 1087 | 1087 | The Vexin War | Defeat
| ||
| 1090 | 1090 | Rouen Riot | Pilatenses (anti-ducal citizens) |
Pro ducal Calloenses |
Defeat
|
| 1091 | 1091 | Invasion of Normandy (1091) | Victory | ||
| 1092 | 1092 | Invasion of Cumbria | Victory | ||
| 1093 | 1093 | Battle of Alnwick | Victory | ||
| 1096 | 1099 | First Crusade | Holy Roman Empire |
Great Seljuq Empire |
Victory
|
| 1097 | 1098 | The Second Vexin War | Inconclusive Truce
| ||
12th century
| Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
| 1105 | 1106 | Invasion of Normandy (1105-1106) |
Victory
| ||
| 1109 | 1113 | Anglo-French war 1109-1113 | Victory | ||
| 1116 | 1119 | Anglo-French war 1116-1119 | Norman Rebels |
Victory
| |
| 1123 | 1135 | Anglo-French war 1123-1135 | Victory
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| 1130 | 1134 | David I's second war against Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair | Scottish Rebels | Victory
| |
| 1136 | 1139 | Anglo-Scottish war 1136-1139 | Defeat
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| 1142 | 1142 | Siege of Lisbon (1142) | Taifa of Badajoz | Defeat
| |
| 1145 | 1149 | Second Crusade | Kingdom of Jerusalem (Holy land Crusade) |
Sultanate of Rum (Holy Land Crusade) Almoravids (Iberian Crusade) |
Partial Crusader Victory
|
| 1150s | 1150s | Eystein II expedition to England | Defeat
| ||
| 1158 | 1189 | Anglo-French War 1158–1189 |
|
Defeat
| |
| 1166 | 1169 | Invasion of Brittany | Victory
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| 1169 | 1177 | Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland | Victory
| ||
| 1185 | 1185 | John's first expedition to Ireland | Defeat
| ||
| 1189 | 1192 | Third Crusade | Kingdom of Jerusalem |
Ayyubids |
Partial Crusader victory |
| 1193 | 1199 | Anglo-French War 1193–1199 | Victory
| ||
| 1196 | 1196 | Battle of Radnor | Defeat | ||
| 1198 | 1198 | Siege and Battle of Painscastle | Powys Wenwynwyn | Victory | |
13th century
| Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
| 1202 | 1204 | French invasion of Normandy (1202–1204) | Defeat | ||
| 1205 | 1207 or 1208 | Anglo-Castilian War | Victory
| ||
| 1209 | 1229 | Albigensian Crusade |
|
|
Crusader Victory |
| 1210 | 1210 | John's second expedition to Ireland | Victory | ||
| 1211 | 1211 | Welsh Uprising of 1211 | Partial Victory
| ||
| 1213 | 1214 | Anglo-French War (1213–1214) | Defeat
| ||
| 1224 | 1224 | Poitou War | Defeat | ||
| 1225 | 1226 | English reclamation of Gascony | Victory
| ||
| 1230 | 1230 | English invasion of France (1230) | Defeat
| ||
| 1234 | 1234 | Breton Conflict (1234) | Defeat
| ||
| 1239 | 1241 | Barons' Crusade | Crusader Diplomatic Victory | ||
| 1242 | 1243 | Saintonge War | Defeat | ||
| 1243 | 1244 | Anglo-Navarrese War | Victory
| ||
| 1271 | 1272 | Ninth Crusade |
|
Stalemate | |
| 1277 | 1283 | Conquest of Wales by Edward I of England | English victory | ||
| 1290 | 1290 | Seizure of the Isle of Man | Victory
| ||
| 1292 | 1350 | War of the Strait |
|
Marinid Sultanate |
Victory
|
| 1294 | 1303 | Gascon War | Defeat
Aquitaine becomes a Fief of France | ||
| 1296 | 1328 | First War of Scottish Independence | Connacht |
Inconclusive (Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton)
| |
14th century
15th century
| Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
| 1417 | 1428 | Second Hook and Cod War | Hook Alliance |
Cod Alliance |
Defeat |
| 1470 | 1474 | Anglo-Hanseatic War | Defeat | ||
| 1487 | 1491 | French-Breton War | Defeat, French victory | ||
| 1487 | 1492 | Second Flemish revolt against Maximilian of Austria | Habsburg-Allied Victory
| ||
16th century
| Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
| 1512 | 1514 | War of the League of Cambrai |
|
Defeat
| |
| 1522 | 1525 | Italian War of 1521–26 | Victory | ||
| 1534 | 1537 | Kildare Rebellion | allied Irish clans |
Victory
| |
| 1539 | 1539 | Battle of Belahoe | Kingdom of Tyrone Kingdom of Tyrconnell |
Victory | |
| 1542 | 1546 | Italian War of 1542–46 | Inconclusive | ||
| 1543 | 1550 | Rough Wooing | Defeat, Treaty of Norham, French-Scottish victory | ||
| 1556 | 1559 | Italian War of 1551–59 | Defeat
| ||
| 1558 | 1567 | Shane O'Neill's rebellion | allied Irish clans |
Clan O'Neill Redshanks |
Victory
|
| 1560 | 1560 | Siege of Leith | Inconclusive
| ||
| 1562 | 1563 | English expedition to France (1562-1563) | Huguenots (Before Edict of Amboise |
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: |
Catholics: |
Victory
|
| 1563 | 1563 | Battle of Gibraltar (1563) | Defeat | ||
| 1566 | 1648 | Eighty Years' War | Victory
| ||
| 1568 | 1573 | Marian Civil War |
|
Victory
| |
| 1568 | 1568 | Battle of San Juan de Ulúa (1568) | Defeat | ||
| 1569 | 1573 | First Desmond Rebellion | allied Irish clans |
allied Irish clans |
Victory |
| 1572 | 1573 | Francis Drake's expedition of 1572–1573 | Cimarrones |
Victory | |
| 1577 | 1580 | Francis Drake's circumnavigation | Victory | ||
| 1579 | 1583 | Second Desmond Rebellion | allied Irish clans |
allied Irish clans |
Victory
|
| 1580 | 1583 | War of the Portuguese Succession | Defeat
| ||
| 1583 | 1583 | Battle of São Vicente | Victory | ||
| 1585 | 1604 | Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) |
|
Stalemate | |
| 1594 | 1603 | Nine Years' War (Ireland) | Victory
| ||
17th century
18th century
| Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
| 1701 | 1714 | War of the Spanish Succession | Kingdom of Portugal |
Victory
| |
| 1704 | 1704 | Battle of Orford Ness | Victory | ||
Civil wars and revolutions
| Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Government | Rebels | ||||
| 1069 | 1070 | Harrying of the North | 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 | 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.[5] The area was taken by William the Conqueror only after a prolonged struggle.[6] | |
| 1075 | 1075 | Revolt of the Earls | Three earls | Internal Conflict, William was Victorious
| |
| 1088 | 1088 | Rebellion of 1088 | William Rufus |
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 rebels Kingdom of France Kingdom of Scotland County of Flanders County of Boulogne Duchy of Brittany |
Internal Conflict
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| 1215 | 1217 | First Barons' War | Rebel Barons |
Civil War, Angevinian victory
| |
| 1264 | 1267 | Second Barons' War | Rebel barons |
Civil War, Royalist victory
| |
| 1277 | 1278 | Welsh Revolt (1277-1278) | Welsh Rebels | English Government Victory | |
| 1294 | 1295 | Welsh Revolt (1294-1295) | Welsh Rebels | English Government Victory | |
| 1316 | 1318 | Welsh Revolt (1316-1318 | Welsh Rebels | English Government Victory | |
| 1321 | 1322 | Despenser War | Contrariants
Supported by:
|
Civil War, Decisive Royal victory
| |
| 1326 | 1326 | Invasion of England (1326) | Edward II (POW) |
Contrariants Supported by: Isabella of France |
Civil War, Contrariants' victory
Continuation of the Despenser War. Isabella of France, and her lover, Roger Mortimers invasion led to:
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| 1381 | 1381 | Peasants' Revolt | Rebel forces | Internal Conflict, Royal government victorious
| |
| 1400 | 1400 | Epiphany Rising | Rebels | Internal Conflict, Royal Victory
| |
| 1400 | 1415 | Glyndŵr Rising Part of the Hundred Years' War |
Internal Conflict, Total English victory | ||
| 1414 | 1414 | Oldcastle Revolt | Lollards | Internal Conflict, Government Victory
| |
| 1455 | 1485 | Wars of the Roses | Supported by: |
Supported by: |
Civil War, Victory for the House of Lancaster and their allies
|
| 1497 | 1497 | Cornish Rebellion of 1497 | Cornish rebels |
Internal Conflict, English victory | |
| 1549 | 1549 | Prayer Book Rebellion |
|
Southwestern Catholic Rebels
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Internal Conflict, Edwardian victory
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| 1569 | 1570 | Rising of the North |
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Internal Conflict, Elizabethan Victory
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| 1608 | 1608 | O'Doherty's rebellion |
|
O'Doherty's rebels | Internal Conflict, Government Victory
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| 1639 | 1651 | Wars of the Three Kingdoms |
|
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)
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| 1685 | 1685 | Monmouth Rebellion | Internal Conflict, Victory for James II | ||
| 1688 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution | William of Orange Dutch military forces British military forces |
Internal Conflict
| |
| 1689 | 1746 | Jacobite Rebellions |
|
Jacobites | Civil War, Royalist victory in England, Scotland and Ireland
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Wars England did not partake in but supported
| Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported by England | Opposed by England | ||||
| 1203 | 1206 | Loon War | William Supported by: |
Ada and Louis II |
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| 1496 | 1498 | Italian War of 1494–1498 | League of Venice:
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See also
Notes
- After Francis II became ill, his treasurer, Pierre Landais, ruling the Duchy in his stead, aided Richard III in attempting to capture Henry Tudor.
- Francis II sheltered Henry Tudor, supplying him with money, troops, and ships. It was only after Francis fell ill that Henry was forced to flee Brittany to France.