Does anyone know any important wars fought involving Britain before the first world war?

Question

Any war that could have been fought by the father of a soldier in the first world war...

Answer 1

Zulu War
Boer War
(both of which were in South Africa)
The War against the Mahdi Army (North Africa)

Answer 2

Dispite popular belief, Britain, not Germany is the most War like nation in Europe. You have to go back many hundreds of years before you can find a year in which Britain/England did not fight a war.

However the main War before the first world war which involved Britain was the Boer War in South Africa. Veterans of which also fought in WW1 along side their sons.

Answer 3

There were hundreds of wars involving Britain prior to the first world war. Like the American Revolution for one. The website in this answer is a time line of Wars which involved Britain

Answer 4

how old a soldier? A 17 year old private born in 1897? To a man who was 50 at the time, so he would have been born in 1847?

or a 40 year old WW1 soldier, born in 1874, to a 50 year old father born in 1824?

in the later case the father could easily been in the Crimean War,rode with the Light Brigade, endured the Indian Mutiny( Sepoy Rebellion) and the expedition to Peking.....

look at the ( fictional ) career of Sir Harry Flashman as chronicled by George McDonald Frasier.......or consider the American answer to your question, where the WW2 and Korean War Supreme Allied Commander Pacific, Douglas MacArthur, was a colonel in the American Army in France in WW1, and his father was a general in the Union army in the US Civil War so, only one generation for a soldier to be born in a frontier fort where his father is chasing Indians on horseback to grow up to command armies with atomic weapons.......and his great grandfather had fought with Washington, so only 5 generations from Yorktown to Hiroshima....

Answer 5

Any war with the French since 1066
Crimean War
The Penisula War - against against France/Napoleon
The Boer Wars (2)
The Opium Wars (China)- fairly continuous until they fizzled out

There were lots of battles of course which we generally won.

And before all of these were the ongoing "battles"/riots against the Romans.

According to the Venerable Bede (first writer of the Social History of England) about 740 AD, When the Britons had too much to drink (Mead (Beer/Honey), they became very aggresive against the Romans and they (the Romans) had to call for reinforcements from Gaul (France). By the time that they arrived, the Brits had sobered up - until the next time.

If you follow English Football - very much the same situation still happens - especially against the French and Germans.

lol

I wonder why?

Answer 6

Boer War

Answer 7

substantial! women folk took care of the injured infantrymen, had to grow to be the boys of the domicile while their husbands went to conflict, took care of the youngsters, and so on. Dishes and laundry? damaging expensive, he's thinking the worldwide conflict grow to be in the 1800's or no longer with the aid of fact even in the american Revolution, women folk fought.