Britain's Small Forgotten Wars
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Africa
Cape of Good Hope, 1806
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
The Moonlight Charge, 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
Battle of Talana Hill, Second Boer War, 1899
War of the Golden Stool, Ghana, 1900
Battle of Atbara, Sudan, 1898
Accident & Ambush: 1st Somaliland Campaign, 1901
Gumburru and Daratoleh, 1903 Somaliland Campaign
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
(American Revolution 1780)
Lost Colours: Rio de la Plata, Argentina and Uruguay, 1805-06
Farewell, Queen Charlotte - The British-American War 1813
(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)
Battle of Happy Valley, Korea, 1951
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
the Glorious First of June, 1794
And he marched them back again: The Invasion of North Holland, 1799
The Walcheren Campaign, 1809
Waterloo, 1815
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
Someone Has To Be The First, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1972
India
First British-Mysore War, 1768
Building Bombay: the Seizure of Salsette 1774
"So I may die like one brave soldier": 4th British-Mysore War, 1799
Battle of Assaye, 2nd Maratha War, 1803
Battle of Deeg, India, 1804
The Vellore Mutiny, 1806
A Symbol of British Dominance, Nagpur, 1817
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
Let The Killing Begin, Meerut, India, 1857
Independence or Mutiny? Oudh, India, 1857
"A Mutinous Sepoy", Vellore, 1858
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)
The Palestinian revolt, Palestine, 1939
(Oman, 1971-75)
(Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, 1898)
(Siege of Azimghur, India, 1858)
VENEZUELAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1811-21
Colonel Thomas Ilderton Ferriar, Columbian Army
St. Ann's, Manchester
© Jonathan Dewhirst 2013
