The British Wars
(2001)
Overview
The British wars began on the morning of 23 July 1637, heralding 200 years of battles. Most were driven by religious or political conviction, as Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, Tories and Whigs, and colonialists and natives vied for supremacy. Of the battles not fought on home territory, many took place across Europe, America, India, and also at sea.
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Episodes
The British Wars (1603 - 1649) 7.0
May 8, 2001
The turbulent civil wars of the early seventeenth century would culminate in two events unique to British history; the …
Revolutions (1649 - 1689) 8.0
May 15, 2001
In the aftermath of Civil War, Britain was a kingless republic led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell ruled with an iron hand…
Britannia Incorporated (1690 - 1750) 7.0
May 22, 2001
In 1690s England, the victors of the Glorious Revolution celebrated the dawn of a new era under a new king - William II…
The Wrong Empire (1750 - 1800) 8.0
May 29, 2001
How did a people who thought themselves free end up subjugating so much of the world, a nation with such a distrust of …