| ONTHE | Gloucestershire market town, site in spring 1646 of a decisive battle of the Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| STOW | Gloucestershire market town, site in spring 1646 of a decisive battle of the Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| WOLD | Gloucestershire market town, site in spring 1646 of a decisive battle of the Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| SARATOGA | Site of a decisive battle of 1777 |
| BULLRUN | First major battle of the Civil War, also known as "Manassas": 2 wds. |
| EDGEHILL | First battle of the Civil War, 1642 (8) |
| ANTIETAM | Worst one-day battle of the Civil War |
| STOWONTHEWOLD | Gloucestershire town, site of the final battle of the first English Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| TEWKESBURY | Gloucestershire town, the scene of a decisive battle in the Wars of the Roses |
| CRECY | Village in France that was the scene of the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War when the English defeated the French in 1346 |
| ULYSSESSGRANT | Top Union general at the end of the Civil War: 3 wds. |
| BOSWORTHFIELD | Last, decisive battle in the Wars of the Roses (8,5) |
| ALAMEIN | Town in northern Egypt, the site of a decisive battle in 1942 (7) |
| BERCHTESGADEN | German town, site of Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat (13) |
| CIRENCESTER | Gloucestershire market town founded by the Romans as Corinium Dobunorum, home of the UKs oldest polo club and the Royal Agricultural University (11) |
| WATERLOO | Terminal on, track, as site of a decisive battle (8) |
| NASEBY | Decisive battle of the first English Civil War |
| TRAFALGAR | Cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cadiz, that was the scene of a decisive naval battle in 1805 in which Nelson was mortally wounded |
| ASCOLI | - Piceno, Italian town, site of a massacre of all its Roman citizens in the Social War of 90 B.C. (6) |
| ELALAMEIN | Town on the Northern coast of Egypt, scene of a decisive 1942 Allied victory over the Axis forces (2,7) |
