We will be building a chronology of British Wars and battles and putting them into context with British society at the time. So many well known conflicts, the Spanish Armada, the Napoleonic Wars, the English Civil War and our history textbooks of old reminding us of great battles, Waterloo and Ladysmith, of the Nile and Balaclava but what of those wars long forgotten except to enthusiasts, the Mahratta Wars, the Peninsular War or the Sikh Wars?
They kept many battles at sea and fought hard to ensure Britain was not invaded. Our Royal Navy, developed to become an invisible fighting force, was able to quickly move to the battleground. The British have been engaged in conflict around the world for hundreds of years. The Afghan wars were fought over centuries, wars were fought in the Indian sub-continent and in the China Seas.
Many of these battles were fought on foreign shores and those who died in these far flung wars lie buried miles from home.
Majority of British Battles were fought on foreign shores Round shot that hit the Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, still lodged in the piece of timber it hit.
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