| MONTCALM | Louis-Joseph de -, French general killed by British forces under James Wolfe in 1759 (8) |
| WATERLOO | Battle in which Napoleon's army was defeated by an allied force under the Duke of Wellington (8) |
| GREVILLE | Fulke ---, 1st Baron Brooke, Chancellor of the Exchequer under James I from 1614-21 (8) |
| SUBMERGE | Did a naval vessel join forces under water? (8) |
| REGIMENT | Force under colonel |
| LAFAYETTE | Marquis de French general who was a key figure in the American and French revolutions (9) |
| OTTERBURN | Village in Northumbedand near the scene of a moonlight battle fought in 1388 by the English under Sir Henry Percy and the Scottish under James, 2nd Earl of Douglas (9) |
| GAALLE | Charles de ---, French general and statesman who served as President of France 1959-1969 (6) |
| QUEBEC | ____ House, childhood home in Kent of General James Wolfe (6) |
| CUSTER | US general killed by Indians in eighteen-seventy-six |
| ALAMO | The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico. |
| SISERA | Canaanite general killed by Jael in the Old Testament (6) |
| VEGA | Joseph de la **** , 17th-century Spanish merchant who gave liberally (4) |
| HOLOFERNES | Assyrian general killed by Judith (10) |
| ALLIED | A trainee made things up, about joining forces under treaty (6) |
| THERMOPYLAE | Scene of a famous 480 BC battle in which a greatly outnumbered Greek force under Leonidas held off a force of Persians under Xerxes (11) |
| TEDDER | Arthur, British deputy supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force under Eisenhower 1943-5 (6) |
| EARS | Under James I and Charles I, Archbishop William Laud was rumoured to cut these off Puritans during torture |
| WILLIAM | And 17dn Scot who was King's Master Mason (1617-1631) under James VI (7,7) |
| BACON | Francis _, English philosopher and statesman, a Lord Chancellor under James I (5) |
