| SPIONKOP | Site of a Second Boer War battle in 1900 |
| SPION | & 12D The Battle of -, conflict in January 1900 between Boer and British forces in the Second Boer War (5,3) |
| MAHIKENG | Provincial capital in South Africa (pop about 50,00), the site of a 217-day siege in the Second Boer War (8) |
| COLENSO | Town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; scene of a December 1899 battle in the Second Boer War |
| KITCHENER | Field marshal who in 1900 became overall commander of the British forces in the Second Boer War (9) |
| LADYSMITH | South African city in KwaZulu-Natal subjected to a four-month siege by Boer forces during the Second Boer War (1899-1902) (9) |
| ARNHEM | Town in the Netherlands, site of a Second World War battle (6) |
| KRUGERRAND | Gold coin featuring the likeness of the statesman whose actions were one cause of the Second Boer War |
| MAFEKING | Town in South Africa where British troops and civilians were besieged for 217 days during the Second Boer War (8) |
| DEWET | Afrikaner commander who led the Orange Free State army during the Second Boer War (2,3) |
| BEARSDEN | Town in East Dunbartonshire (pop about 28,000), the site of a second century Roman fort (8) |
| CHATTANOOGA | City in eastern Tennessee, site of a Civil War battle in 1863 |
| BULGE | Second World War battle in the Ardennes (5) |
| TAURUSRUN | Civil War battle, in the stars? |
| NASEBY | Civil War battle in Northamptonshire, fought on June 14 1645 (6) |
| BUNKERHILL | Revolutionary War battle in Boston |
| ANTIETAM | Civil War battle in whose aftermath the Emancipation Proclamation was issued |
| EDGEHILL | 1642 indecisive Civil War battle in south Warwickshire |
| NANO | Prefix that means a billionth, as in a division of a second (4) |
| TOM | Long ___ is a famous artillery piece used in the Anglo Boer War (3) |
