| CIVIL | ___ War: Fought 1862-1865 in the US (5) |
| WAGED | ___ war; fought |
| CORNELL | Ivy League university founded in 1865 in Ithaca (7) |
| STETSON | Brand of hat founded in 1865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (7) |
| BOER | ___ War, fought from 1899 to 1902 (4) |
| PUNIC | ___ Wars, fought between Rome and Carthage in the third and second centuries BC (5) |
| SPIONKOP | Battle in the Second Boer War fought on a hill by the Tugela River (5,3) |
| SHILOH | Second great battle of the American Civil War, fought in Tennessee in 1862 (6) |
| SALAMANCA | Key battle of the Peninsular War, fought in Spain in 1812 (9) |
| GETTYSBURG | Battle of -, conflict of the American Civil War fought in July, 1863 (10) |
| MYTILENE | Naval battle of the Peloponnesian War fought in 406 BC (8) |
| IRELAND | Near which country were the "Cod Wars" fought in the late 1950s? (7) |
| ATBARA | Battle of the Second Sudan War fought on April 8, 1898 (6) |
| EDGEHILL | Pitched battle of the English Civil War fought between some 15,000 Parliamentarians and 14,000 Royalists on October 23, 1642 (8) |
| SALAMIS | Famous naval battle during the Persian Wars fought off the shores of this small Greek island |
| HIGHWATER | Eighth war fought during possible flood (9) |
| NAPOLEONIC | Wars fought between 1803-15 which ended with the Congress of Vienna redrawing European borders (10) |
| BORODINO | Bloody battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought 70 miles west of Moscow on September 7 1812 |
| ARROWS | Missiles or wars fought with them? (6) |
| UNION | Established in 1862 and now the largest train transport company in the USA, the ... Pacific Railroad |
