| WATERLOO | Scene of an 1815 battle in which Napoleon was defeated (8) |
| BORODINO | Russian village, scene of an 1812 battle in which Napoleon defeated the Russians (8) |
| OMDURMAN | City in the central Sudan which was scene of an 1898 battle (8) |
| JENA | City in Germany, site of an 1806 battle in which Napoleon defeated the Prussians (4) |
| MARENGO | Village in Italy, site of a 1800 battle in which Napoleon defeated the Austrians (7) |
| INKERMAN | Village in Ukraine, scene of an 1854 battle during the Crimean War (8) |
| STHELENA | Island on which Napoleon suffered his second exile |
| PASSERBY | Pedestrian at the scene of an incident (6-2) |
| AUSTERLITZ | Battle of 1805 in which Napoleon defeated Russian and Austrian armies |
| BOMBSITE | Scene of an explosion (4,4) |
| AJACCIO | Corsican city in which Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 (7) |
| CORSICA | Island on which Napoleon was born in 1769 (7) |
| ELBA | Italian island to which Napoleon was exiled in 1814 (4) |
| ELYSEE | Cambridgeshire diocese in which Napoleon once lived? |
| EBONY | Wood in which Napoleon gets English to advance |
| EMMAWOODHOUSE | Titular protagonist of an 1815 Jane Austen novel, described as 'handsome, clever and rich' (4,9) |
| EMMA | Protagonist of an 1815 novel |
| GALLIPOLI | Peninsula in NW Turkey, between the Dardanelles and the Gulf of Saros, that was the scene of an unsuccessful Allied campaign in 1915 |
| SANANTONIO | Texas city which takes in The Alamo, scene of an 1836 battle (3,7) |
| PLAINSOFABRAHAM | Plateau in E Canada between the city of Quebec and the St Lawrence River; scene of an important British victory (1759) in the Seven Years' War (6,2,7) |