| MANASSAS | Site of the Battle of Bull Run |
| STONEWALL | Civil War general Thomas Jonathan Jackson earned this nickname for his unflinching defence at the Battle of Bull Run |
| JACKSON | Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' -, Confederate brigadier general associated with the First Battle of Bull Run of 1861 during the American Civil War (7) |
| STONE | With 52-Across, commander at the First Battle of Bull Run |
| BATTLE | ___ of Bull Run |
| ROCHEFORT | Belgian city of Wallonia, close to the Ardennes, that was the site of the Battle of Bure during the Second World War (9) |
| BOSWORTH | - Field; site of the battle of the Wars of the Roses where Richard III was killed with a halberd enabling Henry Tudor to be crowned as king (8) |
| ABOUKIRBAY | Site of the Battle of the Nile in which Nelson defeated the French (7,3) |
| GRETNA | Small town in the south-west (pop about 3,000), near the site of the Battle of Sark (1448) |
| SELLE | French river in Picardy that was the site of the battle between Julius Caesar and the Nervians in 57 BC as well as a 1918 battle in World War I |
| EASTSUSSEX | County in the south of England; site of The Battle of Hastings (4,6) |
| BOSWORTHFIELD | Site of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (8,5) |
| INVERNESS | Highland city that lies near the site of the Battle of Culloden of 1746 (9) |
| LOUISIANA | Southern US state that was the site of the battle of New Orleans |
| BRIDGWATER | Market town in Somerset near the site of the Battle of Sedgemoor (10) |
| OTTERBURN | Site of the Battle of Chevy Chase in 1388? (9) |
| SENLAC | ? Hill, site of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 (6) |
| FORTSUMTER | Site of the battle which started the American Civil War |
| LITTLEBIGHORN | Site of the battle in which the US 7th Cavalry were routed in 1876 (6,3,4) |
| RIEMST | Municipality in Limburg, Belgium; site of the Battle of Lauffeld in 1747 (6) |
