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2. List of wars involving the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   British victory: British expedition to Tibet (1903–1904) India: Tibet: British victory. Status quo ante bellum. Bambatha Rebellion (1906) United Kingdom: Zulu rebels British victory: Bazar Valley campaign (1908) India: Rebel tribes British victory: Muscat Rebellion (1913–1920) British Empire Muscat and Oman: Imamate of Oman: Inconclusive or ...

3. HMS Victory (1737) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Victory was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 23 February 1737.

4. HMS Victory - Wikipedia

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   HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line.With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission. [Note 1] She was ordered for the Royal Navy in 1758, during the Seven Years' War and laid down in 1759.

5. Great Britain in the Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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   The British victory in the war sowed some of the seeds of Britain's later conflict in the American War of Independence. American colonists had been delighted by the huge swathes of North America that had now been brought under formal British control, but many were angered by the Proclamation of 1763 , which was an attempt to protect Native ...

6. List of armed conflicts involving Ireland against the United ...

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   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).

7. Franklin's lost expedition - Wikipedia

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   The Victory Point note. The Victory Point note was found eleven years later in May 1859 by William Hobson (lieutenant on the McClintock Arctic expedition) [32] placed in a cairn on the north-western coast of King William Island. It consists of two parts written on a pre-printed Admiralty form.

8. Battles of the Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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   The Seven Years' War, 1754–1763, spanned four continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, and India and the Philippines, in Asia.. The conflict split Europe into two coalitions: Kingdom of Great Britain, Prussia, Portugal, Hanover, and other small German states on one side versus the Kingdom of France, Austria-led Holy Roman Empire, Russia, Spain, several small German states ...

9. Naval artillery in the Age of Sail - Wikipedia

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   68-pounder British naval carronade mounted on HMS Victory. The carronade was another compromise design. It fired an extremely heavy shot but, to keep down the weight of the gun, it had a very short barrel, giving it shorter range and lesser accuracy. However, at the short range of many naval engagements, these "smashers" were very effective.