| PLATAEA | Battle in which the Persian army was defeated by the Greeks in 479 BC |
| WATERLOO | Battle in which Napoleon's army was defeated by an allied force under the Duke of Wellington (8) |
| LEPANTO | Port in Greece between the Gulfs of Corinth and Patras that was the scene of a 1571 naval battle in which the Turkish fleet was defeated by the fleets of the Holy League |
| AVICENNA | Name by which the Persian polymath who wrote The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine is known (8) |
| TROJANS | Defeated by the Greeks in a legendary war (7) |
| CARACTACUS | Son of Cymbeline who was defeated by the Romans at Ludlow (10) |
| PRIAM | Trojan king defeated by the Greeks (5) |
| CATPERSON | One in charge of a Persian army, perhaps? |
| JENA | Battle of 1806 in the Napoleonic Wars in which the Prussian Army was defeated (4) |
| EDWARDII | The king whose army was defeated at the Battle of Bannockburn (6,2) |
| TSUSHIMA | Name of the archipelago off the coast of southeastern Japan in the Korea Strait. In 1905 a Russian fleet was defeated by Japan in a battle of the same name, which took place north of the islands. (8) |
| ACHILLES | He was the son of Peleus and Thetis and chief hero of the Greeks in the Trojan War. In Troilus and Cressida (act 1, scene 2), Cressida says, "There among the Greeks ___, a better man than Troilus." |
| IONIA | Ancient region of Asia Minor, colonised by the Greeks in around 1100 BC (5) |
| DISCI | Objects thrown by the Greeks in the ancient Olympic Games |
| POITIERS | French city that was the scene of the 1356 battle in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French (8) |
| TROY | City besieged by the Greeks in the Iliad (4) |
| MYCALE | Battle of 479 BC, a turning point in the wars between Greek city-states and Persia (6) |
| NESTOR | King of Pylos who was the oldest of the Greeks in the Trojan War (6) |
| BOLSHEVIK | The Red Army was a Soviet army created by the Communist Government after the ___ Revolution (also called the October Revolution) |
| ALDERSHOT | Hampshire town in which the first permanent training camp for the British Army was established in 1854 (9) |
