Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a chronological list of armed conflicts involving Ireland and the United Kingdom.Both sides have fought a total of 15 armed conflicts against each other, with 1 of them being an Irish victory, 12 of them being a British victory, 1 having another result and 1 being an internal conflict (civil war).
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Ireland and its predecessor states, since the Irish War of Independence. Since the 1930s, the state has had a policy of neutrality and has only been involved in conflicts as part of United Nations peacekeeping missions. There have been many wars on the island of Ireland throughout
Nine Years' War: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland 1641–42 Irish Rebellion of 1641: Part of the Eleven Years' War: 1642–49 Confederate War: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1649–53 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1689–91 Williamite–Jacobite War: Part of the War of the Grand Alliance: 1798 Irish ...
from 1801: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Spain French Republic: Inconclusive or other outcome: Kandyan Wars (1796–1818) Great Britain from 1801: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Kingdom of Kandy: British victory. End of 2357 years of Sinhalese independence; War of the Second Coalition (1797–1802)
This category includes historical wars in which independent states of Ireland (first millennium AD–present) participated. Please see the category guidelines for more information. See also: Category:Wars involving the United Kingdom; Category:Wars involving Great Britain; Category:Wars involving England; Category:Wars involving Scotland
Civil war Royalist victory [17] 1277; 1282–83 Edwardian conquest of Wales: Wales Part of the Anglo-Welsh Wars English victory- Wales conquered by Edward I [18] 1296–1328 First War of Scottish Independence: Scotland; England; Ireland Part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars: Scottish victory- Scotland gains independence [19] 1321–22 Despenser War ...
World War II (1939–45) see Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II. Air warfare of World War II; Pacific War (1937–45) Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) British–Zionist conflict of Palestine (1945–48) Greek Civil War (1946–47) Cold War (1946–90) Malayan Emergency (1948–60) Korean War (1950–53) see United Kingdom in the ...
The Battle of Clontarf in 1014 saw a large force of Vikings and their Irish allies defeated by the forces of the High King of Ireland. Ireland was never invaded by the Roman Empire, and the island remained a warring collection of separate kingdoms throughout its early history. Although it is known that the Romans traded with the Irish kingdoms ...