The Heroes of Waterloo was so named because, on its opening day, in 1815, soldiers who had just disembarked at Portsmouth, returning from the Battle of Waterloo, decided to stop there and celebrate their victory.

The next day the couple were married at Portsmouth in two ceremonies – a Catholic one conducted in secret, followed by a public Anglican service at the chapel of Domus Dei.

In 2010 the NH Senate and NH House of Representatives voted unanimously to enact legislation making September 5 — the day the Treaty was signed in 1905-" Portsmouth Peace Treaty Day " in perpetuity, statewide.

The next day the couple were married at Portsmouth in two ceremonies – a Catholic one conducted in secret, followed by a public Anglican service at the chapel of Domus Dei.

The majority of the bus services from Aldershot are provided by Stagecoach in Hants & Surrey, with one being provided by Fleet Buzz and a National Express coach between London and Portsmouth twice a day.

The next day, additional rebel forces arrived in Portsmouth from across the colony, as well as from Maine.

On a clear day, the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth can be seen to the East, and the Hamble estuary, to the North.

Despite signing a new contract with Manchester City only months earlier and leaving Fulham in 2005 to return to the north, Cole signed for south coast club Portsmouth on transfer deadline day ( 31 August 2006 ) for an undisclosed fee expected to rise to £ 1 million depending on appearances.

However the club only survived on the last day of the 2000 – 01 season when they won their final game and Huddersfield Town lost theirs, keeping Portsmouth up at their expense.

Portsmouth were relegated to the Championship the following day after West Ham United beat Sunderland.

Despite this, Portsmouth won their FA Cup semi-final match against Tottenham 2 – 0 after extra-time the next day, with goals from Frédéric Piquionne and Kevin-Prince Boateng winning the match.

But still, Samuel Pepys notes in his diary on 19 July 1667: " The Dutch fleete are in great squadrons everywhere still about Harwich, and were lately at Portsmouth ; and the last letters say at Plymouth, and now gone to Dartmouth to destroy our Streights ' fleete lately got in thither ; but God knows whether they can do it any hurt, or no, but it was pretty news come the other day so fast, of the Dutch fleets being in so many places, that Sir W. Batten at table cried, By God, says he, I think the Devil shits Dutchmen.

The term is also used in Britain to mean an open day at a dockyard such as HMNB Portsmouth, when the public can visit military ships and see air displays, roughly along the lines of an American Fleet Week.

The day after the funeral they moved to his sister-in-law's in Sussex, then on to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.

These machines and the block mills attracted an enormous amount of interest from the time of their erection, ranging from Admiral Lord Nelson on the morning of the day he embarked from Portsmouth for the Battle of Trafalgar on 1805, to the Princess Victoria at the age of 12, as part of her education.

A gathering of family, friends, and former political colleagues was held the day before Riffe's birthday ( June 25 ) at the Portsmouth Welcome Center to introduce the book.

He then went on to start Fulham's remaining games as they defied all odds and avoided relegation on the last day of the season with a 1 – 0 win over Portsmouth at Fratton Park.

He scored four in a single game as Portsmouth defeated Middlesbrough 5 – 1 on the final day of the season.

It was his first Blackburn hat-trick and his first four-goal game since the last day of the 2003 – 04 season, for Portsmouth against Middlesbrough.

Crouch passed his medical the following day, and, on 11 July, Crouch's transfer was officially unveiled at a Portsmouth news conference.

Stefanovic retired in late 2009 due to a knee injury but still lives in the Portsmouth area and has admitted his dreams of managing Portsmouth Football Club one day.

Fulham beat Portsmouth 1 – 0 on the final day of the season to secure Premier League status for another year.

It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.

This factory was so successful it remained in use until the 1960s, with the workshop still visible at HM Dockyard in Portsmouth, and still containing some of the original machinery.

Warwick was unable to leave Portsmouth because of westerly winds.

On 13 August 1189, Richard sailed from Barfleur to Portsmouth, and was received with enthusiasm.

Flour from Emsworth was transported by ship to places like London and Portsmouth.

He executed the laws enforcing religious conformity with severity, and filled the parish churches, but resisted the excessive measures of tyranny prescribed by the English government ; and in consequence of an intrigue of the Duke of Queensberry and Lord Perth, who gained the duchess of Portsmouth with a present of £ 27, 000, he was dismissed in 1684.

Another version, which Bogart's long-time friend, author Nathaniel Benchley, claims is the truth, is that Bogart was injured while on assignment to take a naval prisoner to Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery, Maine.

The prisoner was eventually taken to Portsmouth.

He was engaged to build the machinery for making ships ' pulley blocks for the Royal Navy in the Portsmouth Block Mills.

The " Jim and Tammy Show " was broadcast for a few years from their Portsmouth, Virginia, studio.

Most of these ships were placed along the Cinque Ports, but Portsmouth was also enlarged.

A plan was then put in place declaring a resolution to join with the Generals at Portsmouth, Col. Monk, and Vice-Admiral Lawson, but it was still unknown to the republican party that Col. Monk was in league with King Charles II.

More than 3, 500 arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of Henry VIII's navy that was sunk at Portsmouth in 1545.

This settlement was called Portsmouth was governed by the Portsmouth Compact.

Portsmouth was the site of the first African American military unit, the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, to fight for the U. S. in the Battle of Rhode Island of August 29, 1778.

In September 1660 he was made a Justice of the Peace, and on 15 February 1662 Pepys was admitted as a Younger Brother of Trinity House, and on 30 April he received the freedom of Portsmouth.

Established in 1847 Gales Brewery ( George Gale & Co. Ltd ) was an old brewery situated in Horndean, on the edge of Waterlooville, near Portsmouth in Hampshire, England.

Two years later he found work at Portsmouth dockyard and — although still largely self-taught — was extending his talents to the specification, design and management of building projects.

In May 2006 he was offered a new one year contract with the club, and celebrated by scoring the first goal in Liverpool's last league game of the season in a 3 – 1 away win at Portsmouth.

* " Mansfield Park " by Jane Austen – Fanny Price refers to Dr. Johnson's celebrated judgment when she is comparing Mansfield Park and Portsmouth.

The formal inauguration of the University of Portsmouth was celebrated at a ceremony in the Portsmouth Guildhall on 7 July 1992.

Portsmouth is the location of an increasingly well-known " homecoming ," currently celebrated every two years.

On 2 March 2008, Cahill controversially celebrated his goal in the 3 – 1 home victory of Portsmouth by crossing his wrists as if he had been handcuffed.