| EDGEHILL | Pitched battle of the English Civil War fought between some 15,000 Parliamentarians and 14,000 Royalists on October 23, 1642 (8) |
| WORCESTER | Cathedral city on the River Severn; site in 1651 of the final battle of the English Civil War (9) |
| GETTYSBURG | Battle of -, conflict of the American Civil War fought in July, 1863 (10) |
| PUNIC | Series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC, resulting in the destruction of Carthage (5) |
| NOTTINGHAM | City on the River Trent that was the scene of the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 |
| SHILOH | Second great battle of the American Civil War, fought in Tennessee in 1862 (6) |
| NAPOLEONIC | Wars fought between 1803-15 which ended with the Congress of Vienna redrawing European borders (10) |
| ROSES | The wars of these flowers, red and white, were fought between the houses of Lancaster and York |
| NASEBY | Battle of the English Civil War (6) |
| SPIONKOP | Battle of --- ---, military engagement of the Second Boer War, fought in January 1900 (5,3) |
| AGINCOURT | 1415 battle fought between the English and the French (9) |
| FLODDEN | In which field in September 1513 was the largest battle fought between Scottish and English troops? |
| PUNICWARS | Series of three conflicts fought between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian empire (5,4) |
| ERROR | In statistics, a measure of the difference between some quantity and an approximation to or estimate of it, often expressed as a percentage |
| MYTILENE | Naval battle of the Peloponnesian War fought in 406 BC (8) |
| ATBARA | Battle of the Second Sudan War fought on April 8, 1898 (6) |
| SALAMANCA | Key battle of the Peninsular War, fought in Spain in 1812 (9) |
| SALAMIS | Famous naval battle during the Persian Wars fought off the shores of this small Greek island |
| BORODINO | Bloody battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought 70 miles west of Moscow on September 7 1812 |
| HUNDREDYEARS | The -- War was fought between England and France from 1337-1453 (7,5) |
