History Today

[yellow11]

help please
10a city north-east mexico,sacked by pirates in 1683 T?U?I??
19a chinese city,historically important for trade between korea and manchuria 7 D?N?O??
8d benjamin born 1871 banbury-born poet,wit and rogue 8 ???E????
thanks

[elliemay1]

8 Loveling (if born 1711)

[Flonska]

10a Vera Cruz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Veracruz

[Captain2]

Flonska. 10a is (7) letters

http://www.historytoday.com/crossword

[Flonska]

19a Dongxing?

[elliemay1]

8 I checked the History Today page and it does say 1711

[Baldric]

/// 10a is (7) letters ///

Yep, that's what the OP shows.

[Captain2]

yellow

Isn't 6d Immigrants? That would give you T?M?I?O for 10a

[Mamyalynne]

10 Tampico

[Captain2]

Yep Baldric but Flonska was giving an 8

[Mamyalynne]

Nearest I can get

https://tinyurl.com/ycobx2sz

[Captain2]

19a Dandong

Just got to prove it now :))

[Flonska]

Apologies for misreading and misleading . . .

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dandong

[elliemay1]

Will this do it Captain:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Dandong

[Captain2]

Yes Mamya, I was just trying to find a link from Manchuria to Liaoning prefecture (evrything else points to Dandong)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandong

[Captain2]

Sorry, I'd lost the plot! Manchuria = China; what an idiot.

Thanks Ladies

[elliemay1]

//As the town grew, it became the natural outlet for the Changbai Mountains area and a centre of trade between Korea and northeastern China (Manchuria)//

[Captain2]

I've never come across that crossword before; I like it and have now bookmarked it. Thanks to yellow11 for posting it.

[yellow11]

many thanks all