| OBERHAUSEN | Industrial city in Germany: site of the first ironworks in the Ruhr (10) |
| JENA | City in Germany, site of an 1806 battle in which Napoleon defeated the Prussians (4) |
| WESTHAMUNITED | Premier League football club founded as Thames Ironworks in 1895 (4,3,6) |
| BLENHEIM | Village in Germany, site of a 1704 victory by Anglo-Austrian forces over the French and the Bavarians (8) |
| BUNKERHILL | Site of the first major battle of the American Revolution in 1775: 2 wds. |
| FORTSUMTER | The site of the first engagement of the American Civil War |
| SHROPSHIRE | English county that contains The British Ironwork Centre (10) |
| ALAMOGORDO | Site of the first nuclear explosion |
| NEUSS | An industrial city in Germany, on the west bank of the Rhine (5) |
| ESSEN | Industrial city in the Ruhr valley of west central Germany lying just south of Gelsenkirchen (5) |
| STUTTGART | Industrial city in Germany on the River Neckar (9) |
| ERLANGEN | Industrial city in Germany on the Regnitz River (8) |
| DORTMUND | An industrial city in Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia (8) |
| DRESDEN | Industrial city in Germany almost destroyed in World War II by Allied bombing (7) |
| DESSAU | Industrial city in Germany, capital of Anhalt state from 1340 to 1918 (6) |
| ULM | Industrial city in Germany on the Danube (3) |
| SILVERSTONE | Site of the first race of the Formula One World Championship and the current home of the British Gra |
| ALCATRAZ | Island in San Francisco Bay, site of the first lighthouse on the wt coast of the USA (8) |
| LEXINGTON | The site of the first shots fired in the American Revolutionary War (9) |
| MONS | Belgian city, site of the first battle fought by the British Army in World War I (4) |
