| DEKALB | French baron who fought in the American Revolution |
| LAFAYETTE | A French aristocrat who fought in the American Revolutionary War (9) |
| HEN | Some soldiers from Delaware supposedly took a blue variety of this along when they fought in the American Revolution |
| JEANBOROTRA | French tennis player, one of the "Four Musketeers," who fought in the Battle for Castle Itter in World War II (4,7) |
| ANZACS | Abbreviated name of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps volunteers who fought in the Gallipoli Campaign, honoured in a national day of remembrance annually on April 25 (6) |
| PATTON | General who fought in the Battle of the Bulge |
| JEANLAFITTE | French pirate who fought in the Battle of New Orleans |
| AMHERST | Jeffrey ?, British Commander-in-Chief, North America from 1758-63 who fought in the Seven Years' War |
| HORSE | Native American leader (c. 1842-1877) who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn; Sioux name, Ta-Sunko-Witko (5,5) |
| CRAZY | Native American leader (c. 1842-1877) who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn; Sioux name, Ta-Sunko-Witko (5,5) |
| HOLLIDAY | Doc ____ , U.S. gambler and dentist who fought in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (8) |
| ERIES | Indigenous tribesmen who fought in the Beaver Wars |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian who fought in the second Punic War (8) |
| TOLSTOY | Novelist who fought in the Crimean War |
| AJAX | Greek hero who fought in the Trojan War (4) |
| AGAMEMNON | Strangely among men a king who fought in the Trojan War |
| BENEDICTARNOLD | General in the American Revolution who failed in his calamitous attempt to capture Quebec City in 1775: 2 wds. |
| ARNOLD | Benedict, American officer who shifted allegiance to the British in the American Revolution (6) |
| TORY | Term used in the American Revolution to describe those who remained loyal to the British Crown and government (4) |
| CATAWBA | Carolina tribe that allied with the colonists in the American Revolution |
