This airport was established at the former Army airbase at Napier Field in 1965, after a push to move the airport was started in the early 1950s by then-Mayor Richmond C. McClintock.

Napier was eventually legally ousted after it was realized that he did not legitimately own the land.

The Scottish Argyll company used its own, much simpler and efficient, single-sleeve system in its cars, a system which, after extensive development, saw substantial use in British aircraft engines of the 1940s, such as the Napier Sabre and Bristol Hercules and Centaurus, only to be supplanted by the jet engine.

In June 1907, eleven days after the circuit opened, it played host to the world's first 24 hour motor event, with Selwyn Edge leading three specially converted Napier cars around the circuit.

In any event, the name fitted well with other place names in the district ( Napier, Havelock and Clive ), which were also named after prominent figures in the history of British India.

* Napier, New Zealand, a Hawke's Bay city named after Sir Charles James Napier

* Edinburgh Napier University, in Edinburgh, Scotland, named after the mathematician

The town of St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia was named after Jaques and has a commemorative statue of him in the towns botanical gardens on Napier Street.

Before the war, Napier had been working on an aviation diesel design known as the Culverin after licensing versions of the Junkers Jumo 204.

Nevertheless, Napier was awarded an Army Gold Medal after he was returned to British hands.

The city of Napier in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand is named after Sir Charles Napier.

The Napier Gardens in Argostoli on the Greek island of Kefalonia are named after him.

Some ten pubs in England are named after him, either as the Sir Charles Napier, or the General Napier.

Karachi Grammar School named its second-oldest house " Napier " after Sir Charles Napier ( the oldest House is named Frere after Sir Henry Bartle Frere ).

By daylight she swam about with creatures of her reef world but after sunset would go to a stream that ran into the bay where the city of Napier now exists.

The next day, all the captains in the squadron donned full dress and white trousers and were formally presented to the Dowager Queen, after which Napier and Stirling escorted her to the royal Palace of Necessidades, where they were received by Queen Maria II.

Napier was a military member of the Governor-General of India's council until 1865, acting for a short while as Governor-General after the sudden death of Lord Elgin.

Napier, New Zealand, another notable Art Deco city, makes an interesting comparison with Miami Beach as it was rebuilt in the Ziggurat Art Deco style after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1931.

However, the monarch suddenly changed his attitude towards Rassam and he, too, was to become Tewodros ' prisoner and was held for two years until English and Indian troops under Robert Napier in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia resolved the standoff by defeating the warlord and his army.

The Highlanders narrowly lost to the Hurricanes in Napier 35 – 33 before defeating the Brumbies at Carisbrook on 20 April.

After defeating Stuart Nash in a battle to stand in the Napier electorate for Labour, Fairbrother did not stand on Labour's list in the 2008 election.

The first match of the competition was on 15 October 2004, with Auckland City defeating Napier City Rovers 3-1 at Park Island, Napier.

But in the meantime Lisbon fell into the hands of the Duke of Terceira, who had left Oporto earlier in the Liberal fleet commanded by Charles John Napier, disembarked in the Algarve and marched across the Alentejo to defeat the Miguelist General Teles Jordão ( seizing the city on July 24 ).

* March 11 – A Royal Navy fleet sails from Britain under Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier.

Meanwhile Miguel's fleet was comprehensively defeated by Pedro's much smaller squadron, commanded by Charles Napier, in the fourth Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

While serving in the Azores, Napier had come to know members of the exiled Portuguese liberals, who had offered him command of the small fleet serving Dom Pedro, which largely consisted of a few old men-o '- war and some East Indiamen purchased from the British.

Dom Pedro, currently being besieged in Oporto by the forces of Dom Miguel, bestowed on Napier his commission as Vice Admiral, Major General of the Portuguese Navy and Commander in Chief of the fleet.

An eccentric but indomitable character, Napier restored the situation in the fleet, which had been close to mutiny because of lack of pay, and proposed a new strategy to break the siege.

Flying his flag in the frigate Rainha de Portugal 46, commanded by Captain F. G. MacDonough and with his stepson Charles Elers Napier as Chief of Staff, on 20 June he sailed from Oporto with his small fleet, transporting the Duke of Terceira and half the constitutional army to the Algarve so that they could open a second front in the south of the country and march on Lisbon.

During the Crimean War he was sent by Sir Francis Beaufort, Hydrographer of the Navy, to the Baltic to assist the fleet commanded by Sir Charles Napier.

US 31 follows Napier Avenue west to I-94 before branching off with I-196.

Nearly all buildings in the central areas of Napier and Hastings were levelled ( The Dominion noted that " Napier as a town has been wiped off the map ") and the death toll included 161 people in Napier, 93 in Hastings, and two in Wairoa.

Like Cochran, Napier Field was a large permanent Air Corps Base and most of us were quite content to stay on the camp when we had time off.

The film starts off when his terribly upper class wife Leonie has given up on him and has just secured a divorce in order to marry Charles Napier, an art gallery owner of her own social standing.

The sea off Napier is now protected by Moremore, the son of Pania and Karitoki.

" Napier similarly speculates: " he second sweep that was preparing to make when Sir John Moore's march called off his attention from the south would undoubtedly have put him in possession of the remaining great cities of the peninsula.

Despite a stiff fight between the boats, commanded by Captain Charles John Napier and the American batteries, the Bastion was unharmed and Brooke called off the attack and withdrew before dawn.

In about 1939-45 Triggs owned the 2, 000-acre Kyalla Park sheep farm and horse stud near Orange, which had the first electrified sheep shearing shed in Australia ( built in about 1910 by the previous owners, the Stuart family ), being slowly divided up and sold off by its subsequent owner, so that it is now around 150 acres and owned since about 1980 by the Napier family.

Using the name ' Carlos de Ponza ' in a transparent attempt to disguise his identity as a British officer to escape penalties under the Foreign Enlistment Act, in June 1833 Napier joined his new command in the Douro River off Oporto.

His third Test century, an aggressive and chancy innings of 151 runs off 204 balls, came against India at Napier in March 2009.

* 1833 – Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

* Napier, Western Cape, named for Sir George Thomas Napier

Many of the white farmers in this district, unlike their fellows dwelling farther north, were willing to accept British rule, and this fact induced Mr Justice Menzies, one of the judges of Cape Colony then on circuit at Colesberg, to cross the Orange and proclaim ( October 1842 ) the country British territory, a proclamation disallowed by the governor, Sir George Napier, who, nevertheless, maintained that the emigrant farmers were still British subjects.

* Sir George Thomas Napier ( 1784 – 1855 ), Commander-in-Chief of the Army in the Cape Colony

* Brother – Sir George Thomas Napier ( 1784 – 1855 ), Commander – in – Chief of the Army in the Cape Colony

While the governor of the Cape, Major-General Sir George Napier, had invited the emigrants to return to the colony, he had stated his intention to take military possession of the port.

Finally, in deference to the strongly urged views of Sir George Napier, Lord Stanley, in a despatch of 13 December, received in Cape Town on 23 April 1843, consented to Natal becoming a British colony.

Kaya Jawa was the name for the fishing grounds in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, from Napier Broome Bay to Cape Leveque.

On 6 July, receiving news of the victory, Dom Pedro named Napier as Viscount Cape St Vincent in the peerage of Portugal.

* 1833-Miguel's navy is defeated by Pedro's Admiral Charles Napier at the fourth Battle of Cape St Vincent.