| TEXEL | Dutch island off which the battle of ___, a naval engagement in the Third Anglo-Dutch War, was fought (5) |
| BREDA | City in the Netherlands' North Brabant region, in which a 1677 series of treaties was signed to end the Second Anglo-Dutch War (5) |
| AZORES | Portuguese island group off which the American merchant ship Mary Celeste was found adrift and abandoned on December 4 1872 (6) |
| SENLAC | Hill in East Sussex on which the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066 (6) |
| SOMME | French river after which the Battle of the ___ was named (5) |
| ARUBA | Dutch island off the coast of Venezuela |
| BONAIRE | Dutch island off the Venezuela coast |
| DARES | Dutch war god has bottle |
| CRIMEAN | The War of which the Battle of 3 down was a part (7) |
| TOWTON | The Battle of ___ in the Wars of the Roses in March, 1461 was the largest battle ever fought in Engl |
| CHICKAMAUGA | The battle of ___ Creek, fought 18-20 September 1863, which was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War (11) |
| ORTONA | World War II, 1943: Canada was victorious over Germany in the Battle of ___ which took place on the Adriatic coast in Italy |
| VIMY | The Battle of _ Ridge, part of the Battle of Arras during the First World War (4) |
| SALAMIS | The famous naval battle during the Persian Wars was fought off the shores of this small Greek island |
| TRAFALGAR | Battle of ___, 1805 naval engagement between British and Franco-Spanish fleets off the coast of SW Spain (9) |
| AUSTERLITZ | The battle of _(aka battle of the Three Emperors), fought on 2 December 1805; it was a great victory for Napoleon (10) |
| ANTIETAM | The Battle of ___, fought in 1862, was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history |
| SHELL | Global company of Anglo-Dutch origin which has around 25,000 outlets in the United States (5) |
| PIERCE | Which brigadier general from the Mexican War was the 14th president of the US and is noted for his vacillation over the issue of slavery? (6) |
| FTROOP | "The end of the Civil War was near" was the start of its theme song |
