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Originally Posted by Perle

Ones against France
# Battle of Bouvines (1214) - loss of Normandy
# Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453)
# Loss of Calais (1558) - then England's last continental possession
# War of the Grand Alliance (or King William's War) (1688–1697) (due to France attacking Germany and Spain)
# Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) (pretty much France against everyone, even the Ottomans were attacked)

Not much, if anything, to do with Britain
# Eighty Years' War (1598–1648) (to do with Dutch independance and Spain attacking them)
# Italian Wars (1494 – 1559) (mainly involved Spain and France, in fact I can't see much English mention at all in the wikipedia article on it)
# War of Devolution (1667–1668) (between Spain and France - nothing to do with us)
# War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713) (Austrian Vs Spain in Italy, bringing in France then Britain, Holland and Germany)
# War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) (Prussia invading bringing in Britain, Spain, France and the Netherlands)
# Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) (due to WW1, independance from the Ottoman empire)
# Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) (Unpopular Guerilla war against the government and the British in Malaysia)
# Konfrontasi (1962–1966) (Malaysia V Indonesia)

Against Spain
# Spanish Armada (1588) (they were about to invade us.)
# Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)
# War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1742)

# Third Crusade (1189)
# First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654)
# Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667)
# Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) (France invading with Britain and Germany helping)
# Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784) (carried on from the seven years war)
# King Philip's War (1675–1676) (against Native Americans)
# Battle of the Boyne (1690) (in Ireland)
# Anglo-Irish War (1919–1921) (IRA attacking Britain)
# Seven Years' War (1756–1763) - the first "world war" (Great Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands were involved too. All in North America.)
# American War of Independence (1775 to 1783) (practically a civil war)
# British-American War (1812) (Americans declared war on Britain and Canada)
# Anglo-Gurkha War (1814-1816)
# First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)
# First Opium War (1839–1842) (China declared war on Britain)
# Crimean War (1854–1856) (Russia attacking the Ottomans, Britain and France defended)
# Second Opium War (or The Arrow War) (1856–1860) (also involving the US and France)
# Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) (complicated)
# Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
# Boer War ( 1880–1881 and 1899–1902) (British V Dutch in South Africa)
# Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
# Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960) (Kenyan independance war)
# Cyprus Emergency (1955–1959) (Cypriot independance war but was mainly Guerrila warfare)
# Suez Crisis (1956) (Britain Allied with France and Israel)
# Brunei Uprising (1962) (British helped the government quell an opposition uprising)
# Aden Emergency (1963–1967) (Yemen independance)
# Falklands War (1982) (Argentina invaded)
# Kosovo War (1999) (This involved NATO not just Britain)
# 2001 Afghanistan War (2001–2002) (I was against it but the UN were for it)
# 2003 invasion of Iraq (2003) (I was against it as well)

Can not really be described as a bad thing that we got involved
# World War I (1914–1918)
# World War II (1939–1945)
# Cold War (1945–1991) (NOT A REAL WAR)
# Korean War (1950–1953) (mainly US but it was a UN mission for the British troops there)
# Gulf War (1990–1991) (Iraq invaded Kuwait, THE UN defended)
# Bosnian War (IFOR) (1995–1996) (Yugoslavia were attacking Bosnia - THE UN defended)
# Sierra Leone Civil War (2000) (we were helping)

Ok, I was bored. I grouped together most of the battles you listed, got rid of all of the civil war ones and the battles involved in other wars (and the crap ones like the cod war).
Doesn't look that impressive a list now does it?