| ESSEN | 1802 acquisition of 25-Across |
| LEGION | ____ of Honour, highest order of merit in France, established in 1802 (6) |
| NICOLASBAUDIN | Who was charting the coast of Australia when, in April 1802, he met Matthew Flinders off the coast of Encounter Bay? (7,6) |
| AMIENS | French treaty city of 1802 |
| BRITISHMUSEUM | Home of the Rosetta Stone since 1802 (7,6) |
| STAEL | Madame de ___ (Author of 1802 book Delphine) |
| PALLADIUM | Element of the platinum metals group with the lowest density and melting point, discovered by chemist William Hyde Wollaston in 1802 (9) |
| LEGIONDHONNEUR | France's highest order of merit, instituted by Napoleon in 1802 |
| TWO | Number of graduates in the first class at West Point (1802) |
| ERASMUS | Grandfather of English naturalist Charles Darwin, noted as a physician and a poet (1731-1802) (7) |
| STAR | 'Thy soul was like a ___, and dwelt apart' (Wordsworth, London 1802: written in praise of Milton) (4) |
| CEYLON | British crown colony from 1802 to 1948 |
| DUPONT | Company that began as a gunpowder manufacturer in 1802 |
| PRAED | English poet: 1802-39 |
| WESTPOINT | Military academy that opened on July 4, 1802 |
| ESEK | Naval officer Hopkins: 1718-1802 |
| ABEL | Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829). |
| UPON | Composed ___ Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802: Wordsworth poem. (4) |
| LANDSEER | Sir Edwin Henry ___ (1802 - 73) |
| JOHNKEMBLE | English actor who managed the Drury Lane (1788-1802) |
