| LAREDO | City in southern Texas (pop about 240,000), rechartered as a city in 1849 (6) |
| ARLINGTON | City in southern Texas (pop about 400,000), founded in 1876 (9) |
| BOISE | US state capital (pop about 240,000), incorporated as a city in 1863 (5) |
| BALT | Edgar Allan Poe died in this Maryland city in 1849 [abbr.] |
| ROSSSEA | Hosting around 240,000 emperor penguins, body of water discovered by an Antarctic explorer in 1841 w |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| DALLAS | City in Texas (pop about 1.4 million), incorporated in 1856 (6) |
| ALBANY | US state capital (pop about 100,000), chartered as a city in 1696 (6) |
| ODESSA | City in western Texas (pop 112,000), established in 1881 (6) |
| RAVISH | Plunder, as a city in wartime |
| FORTWORTH | City in Texas (pop about 900,000), established as an army outpost in 1849 (4,5) |
| TUCSON | Counts as a city of Arizona (6) |
| YONKERS | A city in New York State (pop about 200,000), incorporated as a city in 1872 (7) |
| CHRISTI | Corpus ___, coastal city in southern Texas, named by a Spanish explorer in 1519 (7) |
| FLORIN | A former British silver coin first minted in 1849 (6) |
| CALGARY | Large Canadian city (pop about 1.3 million), incorporated as a city in 1894 (7) |
| PUNJAB | Region of north-west India annexed by the British East India Company in 1849 (6) |
| ABILENE | Small city in Texas (pop about 120,000), incorporated in 1881 (7) |
| CHOPIN | Frederic, Polish composer who died in 1849 (6) |
| LAYARD | In 1849, this explorer returned to Mesopotamia and continued excavations at Nineveh and Babylon, discovering in the process the huge library of Ashurbanipal, probably the earliest library ever created |
