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This is a list of conflicts involving the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its predecessor states (the Kingdom of Great Britain (and Ireland), Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland and generally the British Isles). Notable militarised interstate disputes are included.
Mar 3, 2011 · The Great War brought decades of simmering social reform to the boil. How did the bloodiest conflict in Britain's history finally give its citizen soldiers the right to vote? On this page
Nov 9, 2018 · So what caused Britain to enter the Great War? The British came in partly because of Belgium, a neutral state when Germany invaded it (and Luxembourg) as part of the Schlieffen Plan at the start of World War One.
On 4 August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. It became known as The Great War, as it affected people all over the world.
The United Kingdom entered World War I on 4 August 1914, when King George V declared war after the expiry of an ultimatum to the German Empire. The official explanation focused on protecting Belgium as a neutral country; the main reason, however, was to prevent a French defeat that would have left Germany in control of Western Europe.
When Britain entered the war in August 1914 the government proclaimed that it needed to honour a long standing commitment to protect Belgium. In the short term, this was indeed one of the...
The British royal family faced a serious problem during the First World War because of its blood ties to the ruling family of Germany, Britain's prime adversary in the war. Before the war, the British royal family had been known as the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .
