What could have been had future US President George Washington, a British Army officer at the time, met his end in the disastrous Braddock Expedition? Did the Great Siege of Gibraltar save British India? What was the ‘other’ Rorkes Drift and how did it sow the seeds of Zulu defeat? Battles that made Britain investigates Britain’s forgotten defeats and overshadowed victories from colonial America to the height of the Victorian era. Picking apart the aftermath of each action to explore the forgotten consequences and the realistic possibilities of what may have been.