| LEUCTRA | Village in Boeotia, Ancient Greece; scene of a battle fought in July, 371 BC |
| TANAGRA | Town in Boeotia, ancient Greece, renowned for the manufacture of terracotta figurines |
| ELALAMEIN | Site in Egypt of a battle fought in the Second World War which resulted in a decisive British victor |
| ACTIUM | Promontory in western Greece; scene of a battle in 31 BC at which Octavian defeated Mark Antony (6) |
| LEPANTO | Port in Greece, scene of a 1571 naval battle (7) |
| AGINCOURT | A battle fought in 1415 in Northern France, a decisive victory for Henry V's English army (9) |
| IPSUS | In 301 BC, which ancient village in central Asia Minor, in Phrygia, was the scene of a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great? (5) |
| SALAMIS | An island in the Saronic Gulf, Greece; scene of the naval battle in 480 BC in which the Greeks defeated the Persians (7) |
| 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) |
| ISSUS | Town in Asia Minor, scene of a battle in 333 BC in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians (5) |
| GETTYSBURG | Battle of -, conflict of the American Civil War fought in July, 1863 (10) |
| FLODDEN | Battle fought in Northumberland in 1513 in which James IV of Scotland was the last British monarch to die in battle (7) |
| PASS | Thermopylae: mountain ___ in Greece, scene of battle |
| IWOJIMA | Pacific scene of a battle in which a well-known wartime photograph was taken |
| SOMME | River of northeast France, scene of a battle of World War I (5) |
| THEBES | Happen to stop most of these coming from somewhere in Boeotia (6) |
| CAMBRAI | French town on the River Scheldt, scene of a battle in the First World War in which massed tanks were first used (7) |
| ARNHEM | Location of a major WW2 battle fought in September 1944 (6) |
| WATERLOO | Battle fought in Belgium in 1815 which marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars (8) |
| SHREWSBURY | The location of one of England's bloodiest battles, fought in 1403, in which Henry 'Hotspur' Percy d |
