Britain's Small Forgotten Wars
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Africa
The Attack on Algiers, 1816
Bailey's Grave & Auta's Cave: Eighth Xhosa (Kaffir) War, South Africa, 1850-53
(The Expedition to Abyssinia, Ethiopia, 1867-68)
Asante! Third Ashanti War, Ghana, 1872-73
Bleeding in the Dirt: Zulu War, Battle of Kambula, 1879
Taking on the Slavers, Zanzibar, 1881
(Battle of Kassassin, Egyptian war, 1882)
Beau Geste: Mahdist Wars, Sudan, 1881-1899
Far from the fells of Wensleydale: First Boer War: Ingogo/ Schuinshoojgte 1881
Three Graves: The Nile Expedition - Battle of Kirbekan, Sudan, 1885
Punishing Okurike, Nigeria 1893
Fight against Slavery, Zanzibar, East Africa, 1895
Fight Against Slavery, Madina Creek, Gambia, 1894
The Fight at Mguni's Stronghold: 2nd Matabele War, Rhodesia, 1896
War of the Golden Stool, Ghana, 1900
Battle of Atbara, Sudan, 1898
(1st Somaliland Campaign, 1901)
(2nd Somaliland Campaign 1903)
The Sokoto Caliphate, Nigeria, 1903
(Third Somaliland Campaign, 1904)
The Silent Ones: Asaba Hinterland Operation, Nigeria, 1904
(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)
Cut Knife Creek, North-West Rebellion, Canada, 1885
Battle of Coronel, Chile, 1914
Asia
Farewell to a Fireworker: Invasion of Java, 1811
One Shot More: 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
The Lost Lieutenant: 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)
(Yangtze River Incident, China, 1949)
Australasia
The Flagstaff War, New Zealand, 1845
Struck in the Middle: Waikato War, New Zealand, 1863-64
Heni Te Kiri Karamu: Tauranga War, New Zealand, 1864
(Titokowaru's War, New Zealand, 1868-69)
Europe
(French Revolutionary War, 1794)
And he marched them back again: The Invasion of North Holland, 1799
Call in the Marines: The First Carlist War, Spain, 1834-39
Hail the Messiah: 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
Irish Independence, Limerick, Ireland, 1922
Corfu Channel Incident, 1946
India
(First British-Mysore War, 1768)
"So I may die like one brave soldier": 4th British-Mysore War, 1799
(2nd Mahratta War, 1803)
The Vellore Mutiny, 1806
Arrow in the Skull: 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
(Anglo-Persian War, 1856)
(Aden Hinterland, 1905)
(Oman, 1971-75)
(Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, 1898)
(American Revolution 1780)
(Siege of Azimghur, India, 1858)
THE RETREAT FROM KABUL 1842
Captain Robert Salisbury Trevor, 3rd Light Cavalry
St. Mary's, Eastham, Merseyside
Captain Edward Macleod Blair, 5th Light Cavalry
St. Michael's and St. Paul's, Bath
Captain John Bascombe Lock, 5th Native Infantry
St. Peter's, Dorchester, Dorset
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas John Antequil, 42nd Native Infantry
St. Peter's, Fort William and St. Helier Church, Jersey