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The original draftsman's drawings for the area around St Columb Major in Cornwall, made in 1810. Detail from 1901 Ordnance Survey map of the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda (showing St. George's Town and St. George's Garrison), compiled from surveys carried out between 1897 and 1899 by Lieutenant Arthur Johnson Savage, Royal Engineers.
History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes. Available online for downloading; online volumes; The standard highly detailed full coverage of operations. Haswell, Jock, and John Lewis-Stempel. A Brief History of the British Army (2017). Higham, John, ed.
The Great Northern War is generally considered to have concluded the Northern Wars with the decline of Sweden and establishment of the Russian Empire as the principal power of the region, however there are different scholarly opinions on which war constitutes the First Northern War and an internationally agreed-on nomenclature for these wars ...
This is an incomplete list of the wars and battles between the Anglo-Saxons who later formed into the Kingdom of England and the Britons (the pre-existing Brythonic population of Britain south of the Antonine Wall who came to be known later by the English as the Welsh), as well as the conflicts between the English and Welsh in subsequent centuries.
Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America.
Moulton, James R. Peter the Great and the Russian Military Campaigns During the Final Years of the Great Northern War, 1719–1721 (University Press of America, 2005). Oakley, Stewart P. War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560–1790 (Routledge, 2005). Sumner, B. H. (1951). Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia. The English Universities Press Ltd.
After three years of devastating war, Wales is reduced again to lordships under English rule by the Treaty of Woodstock [108] 1258 Llywelyn ap Gruffudd begins to use the title of "Prince of Wales" [109] 1267 29 September: King Henry III accepts Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales under the terms of the Treaty of Montgomery [109] 1282 11 ...
The war reached its climax during the reign of Offa of Mercia, [62] who is remembered for the construction of a 150-mile-long dyke which formed the Wales/England border. [64] It is not clear whether this was a boundary line or a defensive position. [64]