Great Britain was one of the major participants in the Seven Years’ War, which in fact lasted nine years, between 1754 and 1763. British involvement in the conflict began in 1754 in what became known as the French and Indian War. Warfare in the European theater involving countries other than Britain and France commenced in 1756 (hence the
The War of Jenkins’ Ear (known as Guerra del Asiento in Spain) was a conflict between Britain and Spain lasting from 1739 to 1748, mainly in New Granada and among the West Indies of the Caribbean Sea, with major operations largely ended by 1742. Its name, coined by British historian Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to Robert Jenkins, a captain of a British merchant ship, whose ear was cut off by Spanish sailors
King George’s War (1744–1748) is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748). It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars. It took place primarily in the British provinces of New York, Massachusetts Bay (which included Maine as well as Massachusetts at the time), New Hampshire (which included Vermont at the time), and Nova Scotia. Its most
Queen Anne’s War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain; it took place during the reign of Anne, Queen of Great Britain. In Europe, it is generally viewed as the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession; in the
The French and Indian Wars were a series of conflicts that occurred in North America between 1688 and 1763, some of which indirectly were related to the European dynastic wars. The title French and Indian Warin the singular is used in the United States specifically for the warfare of 1754–63, which is mostly coincident with the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian
The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars(1794–1816) were a series of conflicts where British forces, including armed settlers and detachments of the British Army in Australia, fought against Indigenous clans inhabiting the Hawkesbury Riverregion and the surrounding areas to the west of Sydney. The wars began in 1794, when the British started to construct farms along the river, some of which
Australian frontier wars is a term applied by some historians to violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians(including both Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders) and non-Indigenous settlers during the British colonisation of Australia. The first fighting took place several months after the landing of the First Fleet in January 1788 and the last clashes occurred in the early 20th century, as late as 1934.
The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (Dutch: Vierde Engels-Nederlandse Oorlog; 1780–1784) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic. The war, contemporary with the War of American Independence, broke out over British and Dutch disagreements on the legality and conduct of Dutch trade with Britain’s enemies in that war. Although the Dutch Republic did not enter into a formal
The War of the Austrian Succession (German: Österreichischer Erbfolgekrieg) was the last Great Power conflict with the Bourbon-Habsburg dynastic conflict at its heart. It occurred from 1740 to 1748 and marked the rise of Prussia as a major power. Related conflicts included King George’s War, the War of Jenkins’ Ear, the First Carnatic War and the First and the Second Silesian Wars. The pretext for the war was Maria Theresa’s right to inherit
Jacobitism(/ˈdʒækəbaɪˌtɪzəm/; Scottish Gaelic: Seumasachas, ; Irish: Seacaibíteachas, Séamusachas) was a largely 17th- and 18th-century movement that supported the restoration of the House of Stuart to the British throne. The name is derived from Jacobus, the Latin version of James. When James II and VIIwent into exile after the 1688 Glorious Revolution, the Parliament of Englandargued he abandoned the English throne and offered it to his Protestant daughter Mary II and her husband William III. In