Across
7 Red Sea port taken from the Ottomans during the Arab Revolt (5)
8 Former US carrier-borne twin-engined strike jet (8)
9 British ship-borne helicopter (4)
10 Hugo ___, German weapons designer (10)
11 George ___, British general, commander of 3rd Indian Army Corps in the First World War (8)
12 War in which the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge was fought (6)
13 Revolt in Japan in 1877 of samurai against the Imperial Army (7)
16 Battle fought in November 1715 during the Jacobite Rebellion (7)
19 Royal Navy aircraft carrier launched in September 1919 (6)
21 Flagship of Admiral Howard during the attack of the Spanish Armada (3,5)
24 Naval battle fought near the mouth of the Nile in 1798 (7,3)
25 Phoenician town and port captured by Alexander the Great (4)
26 Large crossbow (8)
27 Clement ___, Confederate general wounded at the Battle of Monocacy in 1864 (5)
Down
1 Defensive walls (8)
2 Kit ___, American frontiersman and army scout (6)
3 NATO code-name for the MiG-21 fighter (7)
4 German general, commander of XI Corps at Stalingrad (8)
5 Light cavalryman, originally from Hungary (6)
6 Zulu king deposed by the British in 1879 (8)
7 Famous siege of the Texas Revolution (5)
14 ___ Cronkhite, US general, commander of the 80th Division in the First World War (8)
15 Battle fought in Belgium in June 1917 (8)
17 Armoured vehicle used for reconnaissance (5,3)
18 Scottish king killed in 1057 at the Battle of Lumphanan (7)
20 Secret society which fought against British rule in Kenya (3,3)
22 ___ Rifles, unit raised in 1878 at the start of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (6)
23 Town in the Spanish Netherlands besieged by the French in 1640 (5)
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Across: 7 Aqaba, 8 Intruder, 9 Wasp, 10 Schmeisser, 11 Gorringe, 12 Korean, 13 Satsuma, 16 Preston, 19 Hermes, 21 Ark Royal, 24 Aboukir Bay, 25 Tyre, 26 Arbalest, 27 Evans. Down: 1 Ramparts, 2 Carson, 3 Fishbed, 4 Strecker, 5 Hussar, 6 Cetewayo, 7 Alamo, 14 Adelbert, 15 Messines, 17 Scout car, 18 Macbeth, 20 Mau Mau, 22 Khyber, 23 Arras.
