| A | B |
|---|
| Norman Conquest of England | 1066-1071, William the Conqueror |
| Military Expeditions by the West to Take Jerusalem and the Holy Land | Crusades, 1095-1291 |
| Series of Conflicts between France and England | Hundred Years War, 1337-1453 (War ended English Claims to France, significance of Joan of Arc) |
| English Civil War, 1455-1485 | War of the Roses (House of Lancaster versus House of York) |
| Religious Conflict in Central Europe, 1618-1648 | Thirty Years War |
| English Civil Wars (1638-1660) | Conflict between supporters of Charles I (Cavaliers) versus Parliament (Roundheads) |
| Seven Years War (1756-1763) | In the US known as the French and Indian War. Britain gains control of Canada. |
| American Revolution (1775-1783) | US gained independence, settled by the Treaty of Paris |
| Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon | 1792-1815. Napoleon defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St. Helena. |
| Crimean War | 1853-1856. Britain and France supported the Ottoman Empire against Russia |
| American Civil War | 1861-1865, 11 states attempted to secede. |
| Franco-Prussian War | 1870-1871. France is defeated and Prussia declares a united Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm I |
| Spanish-American War | 1898-1901, US defeated Spain. Won independence for Cuba, US gained the Phillippines, Guam, Wake Island, and Puerto Rico. |
| Boer War | 1898-1901, Britain consolidated control over South Africa, defeated Dutch settlers. British first to use concentration camps. The term commando came into English this is a Africaans word for the Boer irregular soldiers. |
| World War I | 1914-1918 Britain, France, Russia, and eventually the US versus Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.The spark for the war was the assassination of Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand. |
| World War II | 1939-1945 |
| Korean War | 1950-1953 |
| Vietnam War | 1959-1975 |
| Operation Desert Storm | 1991 Coalition led by the US pushed Iraq out of Kuwait. |
| Invasion of Iraq | 2003, U.S. topples Saddam Hussein in Iraq |
| Invasion of Afghanistan | 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11 to defeat the Taliban |
