| ACORUNA | Port city of Galicia, Spain, and site of an 1809 battle during the Peninsular War (1,6) |
| SCOVELL | During the Peninsular War of 1808-14 he developed a system of military communications and intelligence gathering for the British that intercepted French letters and dispatches to and from the battlefi |
| CANNES | French resort and site of an international film festival (6) |
| SHARPESCOMPANY | The 13th historical novel in a series by Bernard Cornwell about a rifleman in the British Army, featuring the siege of Badajoz during the peninsular war (7,7) |
| MARENGO | Name of a battle during the War of the Second Coalition commemorated in the painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David (7) |
| SALAMIS | The famous naval battle during the Persian Wars was fought off the shores of this small Greek island |
| CORINTH | Ancient Greek city and site of the Temple of Apollo and the Acrocorinth Fortress |
| BADAJOZ | City in Extremadura, captured by British forces in the Peninsular War |
| MASSENA | Andre, French marshal defeated by Wellington in the Peninsular War (7) |
| CORUNNA | Peninsular War battle site of 1809 (7) |
| OURENSE | Spanish city in Galicia whose hot springs hold one of the greatest amounts of geothermal water in Europe |
| SPANDAU | Berlin suburb and site of prison that once housed German WWII war criminals |
| ENTEBBE | Ugandan city and site of a 1976 hostage-rescue mission by Israeli forces |
| BUGANDA | A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom. |
| ABERFAN | Village near Merthyr Tydfil and site of a colliery spoil tip collapse in 1966 (7) |
| SALAMANCA | Key battle of the Peninsular War, fought in Spain in 1812 (9) |
| GOYA | ____'s The Disasters of War etchings depicted atrocities in the Peninsular War (1808-14) (4) |
| EUCALYPTUS | Tree of the myrtle family yielding timber, oil and gum; one of the biggest of such trees in Europe can be found in Galicia, Spain, called "El Abuelo" it was planted in around 1880, is nearly 70 metres |
| BLENHEIM | Palace in Oxfordshire, UK, seat of the Dukes of Marlborough and named after a 1704 battle during the War of Spanish Succession (8) |
| GALLEGO | Name for someone from Galicia, north-west Spain (7) |
