This timeline covers the main wars, battles and engagements and related issues for the Scottish, English and British Army, from 1537 to the present.[1][2][3][4][5][6] See also Timeline of British diplomatic history.
- ^ See John William Fortescue, History of the British Army (13 vol, 1899-1930), which tells the story to 1870.
- ^ David G. Chandler and Ian Frederick William Beckett, eds. The Oxford illustrated history of the British army (Oxford UP, 1994)
- ^ David G. Chandler, The Oxford history of the British army. (Oxford UP, 2003).
- ^ Eric William Sheppard, A short history of the British army. (Constable, 1950).
- ^ Robert Money Barnes, A history of the regiments & uniforms of the British Army (London: Seeley Service, 1950).
- ^ Peter Young and James Philip Lawford, History of the British Army (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970).