| USHANT | Island off the coast of NW France that was scene of naval battles in 1778 and 1794 (6) |
| MIDWAY | Battle of ---, naval battle that took place in the Pacific in June 1942 (6) |
| NARVIK | Port in N Norway that was scene of two naval battles in 1940 (6) |
| VERDUN | Fortified town in north-eastern France that was scene of the longest battle in the First World War (6) |
| CANNAE | Village in Italy that was scene of a victory by Hannibal over the Romans in 216 B.C. (6) |
| ACTIUM | Promontory in western Greece off of which Octavian defeated Mark Antony in a naval battle in 31 BC (6) |
| 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 |
| LEMANS | City in Sarthe, NW France that hosts an annual motor race |
| CRECY | Village in France that was scene of a 1346 battle in the Hundred Years' War at which the English defeated the French (5) |
| CAEN | Industrial city in NW France that is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region |
| MARNE | River in NE France that was scene of two unsuccessful German offensives in 1914 and 1918 (5) |
| SALAMIS | Island in the Saronic Gulf that was the scene of a naval battle in 480 BC in which the Greeks defeated the Persians |
| 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 |
| ELOBEID | City in the central Sudan that was scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi in 1883 (2,5) |
| IWOJIMA | Island in the West Pacific that was scene of prolonged fighting between Japan and the US in the Second World War (3,4) |
| AISNE | River in N France that was scene of a major Allied offensive in 1918 (5) |
| SOMME | River in N France that was scene of heavy fighting in World War One (5) |
| STHELENA | Volcanic island in the SE Atlantic that was scene of Napoleon's exile (2,6) |
| DIENBIENPHU | Village in Vietnam that was scene of a major defeat of French forces by the Vietminh in 1954 (4,4,3) |
| PYLOS | Port in Greece that was scene of the Battle of Navarino in 1827 (5) |
