| LITTLEBIGHORN | Site of the battle in which the US 7th Cavalry were routed in 1876 (6,3,4) |
| URANUS | An aura about the sun shows us 7th planet from the sun (6) |
| BOSWORTH | --- Field was the site of the battle in which Richard III of England was killed (8) |
| BOSWORTHFIELD | The site of the battle in English history that ended the Wars of the Roses (8,5) |
| CUSTER | Seventh Cavalry commander of 1876 |
| WATERLOO | Name of the battle in which Napoleon met his final defeat; or, the UK's busiest rail station (8) |
| POSTAGESTAMPS | In the past most pages were routed by using these (7,6) |
| BELOHORIZONTE | Brazilian city in which the United States beat England in the 1950 World Cup finals |
| RICHARDWAGNER | German composer whose cycle of music dramas, The Ring of the Nibelung, was first produced at Bayreuth in 1876 |
| 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 |
| MONTANA | In which US state is the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park and the site of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, in which Custer was defeated? (7) |
| ALEXANDERBELL | US scientist best known as inventor of the telephone in 1876 (9,4) |
| MAJUBA | Battle of _Hill, February 1881, in which the British were routed by the Boers (6) |
| BELGRADE | Major Serbian city in which the US accidentally bombed the Chinese Embassy during the Kosovo crisis |
| DANIELDERONDA | Novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876, the last novel she completed (6,7) |
| POITIERS | French city that was the scene of the 1356 battle in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French (8) |
| LEWES | County town of East Sussex near the site of a battle in which the younger Simon de Montfort defeated Henry III in May, 1264 (5) |
| 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 |
| ABOUKIRBAY | Site of the Battle of the Nile in which Nelson defeated the French (7,3) |
| EASTSUSSEX | County in the south of England, site of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 (4,6) |
