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| 1704 |
| | | The duke of Marlborough wins a major victory over the French at Blenheim, capturing twenty-four battalions and four regiments | |
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| 1709 |
| | | The Swedish king Charles XII suffers his first major defeat in a brilliant career, when he faces the Russians at Poltava | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Maurice de Saxe, with a French army including an Irish brigade, defeats British, Austrian and Dutch forces at Fontenoy | |
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| 1746 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart and his 5000 Scots are routed at Culloden, bringing the Forty-Five Rebellion to an abrupt end | |
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| 1754 |
| | | George Washington kills ten French troops at Fort Duquesne, in the first violent clash of the French and Indian war | |
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| 1755 |
| | | The army led by Edward Braddock and George Washington is ambushed at Fort Duquesne and Braddock is killed | |
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| 1759 |
| | | British general James Wolfe sails up the St Lawrence river with 15,000 men to besiege Quebec | |
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| 1759 |
| | | Frederick the Great suffers his first major defeat, by a Russian and Austrian army at Kunersdorf | |
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| 1759 |
| | | A British defeat of the French in Quiberon Bay prompts David Garrick to write Heart of Oak | |
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington defeats the British at Trenton at a psychologically important moment in the course of the war | |
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