| SPANISHARMADA | Fleet defeated by the English in 1588 (7,6) |
| ARMADA | The Spanish fleet defeated by the English in 1588 |
| ENEMY | The Spanish to the English, in 1588 |
| FLODDEN | A hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 (7) |
| CALAIS | Port that was the last of the territory won by the English in the Hundred Years' War to be regained by the French |
| CRECY | Village in France; scene of a 1346 victory by the English in the Hundred Years' War (5) |
| JAMESTOWN | The first permanent settlement by the English in America |
| TRAFALGAR | 1805 naval battle at which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (9) |
| ORLEANS | French city besieged by the English in 1428-29 (7) |
| WEATHERBEATEN | Defeated by the elements? (7,6) |
| SUNDAYSIMMONS | ___ and Charlie Brick third novel by the English novelist Jackie Collins published in 1971: 2 wds. |
| 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 |
| CHANNEL | In 1926 American Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English ... (in nearly two hours less than the previous record) |
| PLATAEA | Battle in which the Persian army was defeated by the Greeks in 479 BC |
| ENCELADUS | The second nearest of the major regular moons of Saturn, the brightest of all its moons, and discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. The surface is almost pure water ice, with t |
| IRIDIUM | The element was discovered in 1803 in the acid-insoluble residues of platinum ores by the English chemist Smithson Tennant. The international prototype standard kilogram of mass is made from an alloy |
| LONGBOW | Weapon of the English in the Hundred Years War (7) |
| NORMANS | Opponents of the English in the Battle of Hastings (7) |
| ATTILATHEHUN | King defeated by the Romans and the Visigoths in 451 (6,3,3) |
| NASEBY | Village 11 miles from Kettering, where the Royalists were defeated by the Parliamentarians in 1645 (6) |
