The second Battle of Doiran, with general Vladimir Vazov as commander, inflicted a heavy blow on the numerically superior British army, which suffered 12, 000 casualties against 2, 000 from the opposite side.

Unlike Zealous, these British ships suffered relatively severe damage in the engagement ; Goliath lost most of its rigging, suffered damage to all three masts and received over 60 casualties.

The most-southerly British ship, Majestic, had become briefly entangled with the 80-gun Tonnant, and in the resulting battle, suffered heavy casualties.

Two troops of British cavalry, one at the Four Courts, the other on O ' Connell Street, sent out to investigate what was happening, took fire and casualties from rebel forces On Mount Street, a group of reserve volunteer soldiers, stumbled upon the rebel position and four were killed before they reached Beggars Bush barracks.

The British troops, after taking some casualties, managed to regroup and launch several assaults on the position before they forced their way inside and the small rebel force in the tin huts at the eastern end of the Union surrendered.

The British eventually took the position, which had not been reinforced by the nearby rebel garrison at Boland's Mills, on Thursday but the fighting there inflicted up to two thirds of their casualties for the entire week for a cost of just four dead Volunteers.

British troops also took casualties in unsuccessful frontal assaults on the Marrowbone Lane Distillery.

The British Army reported casualties of 116 dead, 368 wounded and nine missing.

On 16 July, the Australians — supported by British tanks — launched an attack to try to take Point 24 but were forced back by German counter-attacks, suffering nearly fifty percent casualties.

After suffering devastating casualties, the British retreated in disarray ; however, Washington rode back and forth across the battlefield, rallying the remnants of the British and Virginian forces to an organized retreat.

The lead British admiral had a crisis of nerves, and his second-in-command withdrew after one day, with moderate casualties.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Much of the colony rose in revolt in the Gun War ( 1880-1881 ), inflicting significant casualties upon the colonial British forces sent to subdue it.

The IRA's initial strategy was to use force to cause the collapse of the Northern Ireland administration and to inflict enough casualties on the British forces that the British government would be forced by public opinion to withdraw from the region.

The 1922 War Office report detailed the casualties of " soldiers who lost their lives ", " killed in action, died as prisoners, died of wounds and missing " from the Regular and Territorial Forces and Royal Naval Division: 702, 410 from the UK, 507 from " other colonies " and 2, 393 British serving in the Indian Empire Army.

* July 1 – November 18 – WWI – More than 1 million soldiers die during the Battle of the Somme, including 60, 000 casualties for the British Commonwealth on the first day.

* September 25 – October 14 – WWI: Battle of Loos: British forces take the French town of Loos but with substantial casualties and are unable to press their advantage.

On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.

The battle was consequently fairly evenly matched, although the British suffered more casualties and ship damage.

For Britain, the Second Boer War was the longest, the most expensive (£ 200 million ), and the bloodiest conflict between 1815 and 1914, lasting three months longer and resulting in higher British casualties than the Crimean War ( 1853 – 56 ).

His infantry drove the Boers from the hill, but at the cost of 446 British casualties including Penn Symons himself.

The battle had begun when a force of between 2, 000 and 3, 000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

The first tank to engage in battle was designated D1, a British Mark I, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette ( part of the Somme Offensive ) on 15 September 1916.

Although Henry Lumley ’ s British cavalry had managed to cross the marshy ground around the Petite Gheete, it was soon evident to Marlborough that sufficient cavalry support would not be practicable and that the battle could not be won on the Allied right.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

Sometimes the soldiers are unable to immediately gauge the significance of the combat ; in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, some British officers were in doubt as to whether the day's events merited the title of " battle " or would be passed off as merely an " action ".

Dio Cassius describes this surprise tactic employed by Aulus Plautius against the " barbarians "— the British Celts — at the battle of the River Medway, 43:

The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

Trapped in a crossfire, the leading French ships were battered into surrender during a fierce three-hour battle, while the centre was able to successfully repel the initial British attack.

Convinced by this that rather than risk an evening battle in confined waters, the British were planning to wait for the following day, Brueys rescinded his earlier order to sail.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

Following the rapid change from a loose formation to a rigid line of battle both fleets raised their colours ; each British ship added additional Union Flags in its rigging in case its main flag was shot away.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

During the delay caused by this detour, two other British ships joined the battle: Theseus, which had been disguised as a first-rate ship, followed Foley's track across Guerrier < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s bow.

The next three British ships, Vanguard in the lead followed by HMS Minotaur and HMS Defence, remained in line of battle formation and anchored on the starboard side of the French line at 18: 40.

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While the battle raged in the bay, the two straggling British ships made strenuous efforts to join the engagement, focusing on the flashes of gunfire in the darkness.