| MENELAUS | the Trojan War was fought to reclaim his wife |
| ORPHEUS | A great musician, in Greek mythology, who tried to reclaim his wife from Hades |
| TEXEL | Dutch island off which the battle of ___, a naval engagement in the Third Anglo-Dutch War, was fought (5) |
| SALAMIS | The famous naval battle during the Persian Wars was fought off the shores of this small Greek island |
| HUNDREDYEARS | The -- War was fought between England and France from 1337-1453 (7,5) |
| AFRICA | Where the Boer War was fought |
| ELSALVADOR | A war was fought between Honduras and which country after one beat the other in a 1969 World Cup football match? (2,8) |
| CRIMEA | Where an 1850s war was fought |
| CRIMEAN | Which war was fought between 1853-1856? (7) |
| PIERCE | Which brigadier general from the Mexican War was the 14th president of the US and is noted for his vacillation over the issue of slavery? (6) |
| FTROOP | "The end of the Civil War was near" was the start of |
| UBOAT | "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the _-___ peril": Winston Churchill (1-4) |
| AXISOFEVIL | "All-out war was launched on the graph today when the ___ attacked" |
| YSER | River flowing from France through Belgium, along which a battle forming part of the Race to the Sea was fought (4) |
| SPION | The Battle of -- Kop was fought in January 1900 between Boer and British forces in the Second Boer War (5) |
| BUNKERHILL | Where the first major battle of the American Revolution was fought: 2 wds. |
| FIVEFORKS | Where the last major Civil War battle was fought |
| EIGHTEENTH | Century in which the War of Jenkins' Ear was fought |
| ADEN | Middle East port that became a hot spot in the 50s as Yemen tried to reclaim the British-controlled |
| IMPOLDER | The writer's senior, retaining power to reclaim land |
