Britain's Small Forgotten Wars
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Africa
The Attack on Algiers, 1816
Eighth Xhosa (Kaffir) War, South Africa, 1850-53
(The Expedition to Abyssinia, Ethiopia, 1867-68)
Third Ashanti War, Ghana, 1872-73
Taking on the Slavers, Zanzibar, 1881
(Battle of Kassassin, Egyptian war, 1882)
Mahdist Wars, Sudan, 1881-1899
First Boer War: Schuinshoojgte 1881
(The Attack on Okurike, Nigeria 1893)
Fight against Slavery, Zanzibar, East Africa, 1895
Fight Against Slavery, Madina Creek, Gambia, 1894
2nd Matabele War, Rhodesia, 1896
(War of the Golden Stool, Ghana, 1900)
Battle of Atbara, Sudan, 1898
The Sokoto Caliphate, Nigeria, 1903
(Third Somaliland Campaign, 1904)
The Silent Ones: Asaba Hinterland Operation, Nigeria, 1904
(1st Somaliland Campaign, 1901)
(2nd Somaliland Campaign 1903)
(The Satiru Uprising, Nigeria, 1906)
(Abyssinia, 1935-36)
The Kolloa Affray, Kenya, 1950
(Mau Mau Uprising , Kenya, 1952-60)
Americas
Lost Colours: Rio de la Plata, Argentina and Uruguay, 1805-06
(Venezuelan War of Independence, 1811-21)
The Franklin Coppermine Expedition, North-East Canada, 1819-22
(American Civil War, USA, 1861-65)
North-West Rebellion, Canada, 1885
Battle of Coronel, Chile, 1914
Asia
Invasion of Java, 1811
The Anglo-Nepalese War, Nepal, 1814
The Pirates of Borneo, 1844
(Fighting Dacoits, Burma, 1887)
(Storming of Namtow, China, 1858)
Chin Lushai Expedition, Burma, 1890
(The Kachin Hills, Burma, 1893)
Siege of Tientsin, Boxer Rebellion, China, 1900
Siege of the Legations, Peking, China, 1900
The Younghusband Expedition, Tibet, 1904
Russo-Japanese War, Manchuria/ China, 1905
The Singapore Mutiny, 1915
The Wahnsien Incident, China, 1926
(Hsaya San Rebellion, Burma, 1930)
(The Malayan Insurgency, Malaya, 1954-57)
Australasia
The Flagstaff War, New Zealand, 1845
Waikato War, New Zealand, 1863-64
Tauranga War, New Zealand, 1864
(Titokowaru's War, New Zealand, 1868-69)
Europe
(French Revolutionary War, 1794)
The Invasion of North Holland, 1799
The First Carlist War, Spain, 1834-39
(The Battle of Bossenden Wood, England, 1837)
International Occupation of Crete, 1897
The Dover Patrol, English Channel, 1914-18
Q Ships, Bay of Biscay, 1917
Corfu Channel Incident, 1946
India
(First British-Mysore War, 1768)
(4th British-Mysore War, 1799)
(2nd Mahratta War, 1803)
The Vellore Mutiny, 1806
The Anglo-Nepalese War 1814
Conflict with the Bheels, 1833
Siege of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, 1826
(The Retreat from Kabul, 1842)
The Gwalior Campaign, Madhya Pradesh, 1843
First Sikh War, Punjab, 1845-46
(Second Sikh War, Punjab, 1848-49)
Matale Rebellion, Sri Lanka/ Ceylon, 1848
The Kohat pass, North-West Frontier, 1850
(Attack on Wana, Waziristan, 1894)
Malakand Field Force, North-West Frontier, 1897
(Tirah Expedition, North-West Frontier, 1897-98)
Third Afghan War, North-West Frontier, 1919
(Waziristan, North-West Frontier, 1936-37)
Middle East
Storming Sidon: The Oriental Crisis, Egyptian-Ottoman War, 1840
(Aden Hinterland, 1905)
(Oman, 1971-75)
(Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, 1898)
(American Revolution 1780)
FIGHTING DACOITS, BURMA, 1887
Lieutenant Charles Brownlow Macdonald, HMS Ranger
St. Anne's, Portsmouth
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