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.

The proceedings of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty negotiations have been identified as an early example of multi-track diplomacy.

Recent examinations of primary documents have determined that the citizen diplomacy at work in the Portsmouth peace process — as the people of Portsmouth encouraged the delegates ' efforts for peace at numerous social events, especially during the times when formal negotiations were breaking down — provides an important example for diplomacy today.

Including Southern League games, there have been 70 games between the clubs, with Southampton winning 34 and Portsmouth 21.

" We believe we have sufficient evidence to confirm that the property is indeed the village of Werowocomoco ," said Randolph Turner, director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources ' Portsmouth Regional Office in 2003.

The Portsmouth Public Library, a Carnegie library, and its five branches have served the county since 1879.

Brittany Ferries have introduced more frequent services from Portsmouth to Cherbourg-Octeville with their latest acquisition, " Cap Finistère " ( ex-" Superfast V ").

Several football teams have also trained at Bisham Abbey, most recently Barcelona and Portsmouth before their 2008 FA Cup victory.

Local deaths from a lethal drug combination of opiates, sedatives and muscle relaxants are so common that locals have dubbed it the Portsmouth Cocktail.

During World War II, another well-known aircraft company, Airspeed Ltd, apparently set up an almost forgotten design office at Fairmile Manor and is believed to have designed the Ambassador airliner there before moving back to Portsmouth in the late 1940s.

In 1810 the engineer John Rennie proposed a canal linking the River Medway to Portsmouth which was to have a branch to London following the Mole for much of its length.

Gondomar conceived his embassy as a sortie in enemy country, and took for his maxim aventurar la vida y osar morir — " risk your life and dare to die "; his opening challenge was his refusal to strike the colours of Spain at his warships ' entry to Portsmouth harbour, in which an appeal to the King averted an exchange of cannonfire that would have sunk the ambassador in his vessel.

No comprehensive schools in Portsmouth have a sixth form.

In 1778, he accepted a command which in the ordinary course would have terminated his active career, becoming Commissioner of the dockyard at Portsmouth and governor of the Naval Academy.

The clay extends west up the Frome valley to Dorchester, and would originally have extended east beyond Portsmouth in Hampshire.

Two sections of the M27 near Southampton and Portsmouth have been widened to four lanes each way.

The signs have been noted at counter-protests at the University of Chicago ; in Spartanburg, South Carolina ; and in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as at the non-WBC-themed Rally to Restore Sanity.

The SER would have free use of the New Cross to Croydon line, and receive revenues from passengers at intermediate stations, but would not make or work competing lines to Brighton, Horsham, Chichester or Portsmouth.

Manchester United have won the shield three times via a shoot-out, beating Arsenal in 2003, Chelsea in 2007, and Portsmouth in 2008.

Marine Services was put out to commercial tender by the Ministry of Defence Warship Support Agency ( now absorbed into the Defence Equipment and Support organisation ) and since 1996 tugs, lifting craft, various tenders and management of HMNB Devonport, Portsmouth and Clyde have been operated by Serco Denholm.

Portsmouth have been a successful club in recent years, especially during the 2007-08 Premier League season, when they won the FA Cup, beating 1 – 0 in the final.

Portsmouth have been champions of England twice, in 1949 and 1950.

Each class of boat is assigned a " Portsmouth Number ", with fast boats having low numbers and slow ones high numbers — so, for example, in the case of two dinghies, a 49er might have a RYA-PY of 740 while a Mirror has a RYA-PY of 1385 ( these are the actual RYA Portsmouth numbers for 2012, but note that adjustments are made each year ).

The Saints ' then entered the first South Coast Derby league game for 6 years against bitter rivals Portsmouth on Saturday 18 December on doubtful form, having only taken 1 point in the last 2 games, but still managed to secure a point after Rickie Lambert gave the Saints the lead following a headed goal from a Fox free kick.

Portsmouth and Leicester City lead the way in Division One, with the playoff zone being occupied by Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Rotherham United and Sheffield United.

Portsmouth now have a seven-point lead over nearest rivals Leicester City at the top of Division One.

Portsmouth and Leicester City continue to lead the way in Division One.

The return of Harry Redknapp, who had been won over by his performances and was now one of his biggest admirers, to Portsmouth lead to Primus ' immediate return to the side, and he was ever present in the side that achieved Premiership survival in the last 10 games of the season.

Formed in 1986 in Portsmouth, England by siblings Alison and Jim Shaw, and named after the many mechanical cranes around the city's docks, Cranes are best known for the childlike, high-pitched vocals of lead singer Alison.

Mikel provided another assist for a Drogba goal in a 5 – 0 win over FA Cup finalists and relegated side Portsmouth on 24 March, as Chelsea cut United's lead at the top of the table to one point.

He scored his first Premier League goal on 31 March 2007 at Fulham, giving Portsmouth an early 1 – 0 lead in a match that eventually ended in a 1 – 1 draw.

Portsmouth took the lead in the first half through a Septimus Rutherford shot.

Both goals were 25-yard shots, the first to give Portsmouth the lead on the hour mark and the second, 93rd minute, gave the club a 2 – 1 win.

Portsmouth, at 6 – 1 – 4 (. 857 ) took the lead, while the Packers ( 10 – 2 – 1 ) and the Bears ( 5 – 1 – 6 ) were tied for second (. 833 ).

In January 1906, Katsura resigned the premiership to Saionji Kinmochi over controversy and unpopularity of the Treaty of Portsmouth ( 1905 ) ending the war between Japan and Russia.

Chelsea won 1 – 0, with Bonetti making a brilliant last minute save to deny George Mulhall and maintain his side's promotion chances ; a 7 – 0 win over Portsmouth secured instant promotion back to the First Division.

The short portion of US 1 in New Hampshire follows the historic Lafayette Road, staying close to I-95, before leaving the city of Portsmouth on the former Memorial Bridge over the Piscataqua River, which has been demolished and being replaced, leaving a temporary gap in US 1, with two other nearby bridges carrying U. S. Route 1 Bypass and Interstate 95.

The two rival clubs found themselves at loggerheads over legal compensation, which threatened to leave Redknapp in limbo, but with the dispute eventually resolved, Redknapp rejoined Portsmouth on 7 December 2005.

Two hours north-west of Paris, and connected to the south of England by the Caen -( Ouistreham )- Portsmouth ferry route, Caen is located in the centre of its northern region, over which it is a centre of political, economic and cultural power.

By 1916, Portsmouth was listed as being a major industrial and jobbing center, with it being the fourth largest shoe manufacturing center in the country, the largest manufacturer of fire and paving bricks in the United State, having a steel mill employing over a thousand, and having over 100 other manufacturing companies producing goods from furniture to engines.

In 1979 Portsmouth City Council agreed to spend £ 35, 000 over the next decade to refurbish the lock.

Gemma Aguilar is an English singer-songwriter from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire who has taken the live circuit by storm over the past 18 months following her performance at the finals of the 2009 Open Mic at Portsmouth Guildhall.

The line reached Havant in 1850, sparking a fierce war ( both legal and, at times, physical ) battle between the LB & SCR and the LSWR ( who managed the services over the independently-owned line ) over access rights to Portsmouth over the former's line.

She was handed over for preservation as Warrior in 1979, and is preserved at Portsmouth as a museum ship.

Known as the " Portsmouth Papers ", this material consisted of three hundred and twenty-nine lots of Newton's manuscripts, over a third of which were filled with content that appeared to be alchemical in nature.

Following the Japanese victory over Imperial Russia and the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth, the southernmost section of the southern branch ( Harbin-Port Arthur ) of the China Far East Railway was transferred to Japanese control.

In September 1905, Russia and Japan signed the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War and firmly establishing Japan's consolidation of influence over Korea.

Roman Abramovich at Stamford Bridge during a 4 – 0 victory over Portsmouth F. C.

Most recently, the 2011 Winter Ghent Bar Tour had over 1250 participants and donated $ 30, 390 to Edmarc Hospice for Children, a Portsmouth, Virginia organization that provides support to children with life-threatening illnesses.

* Mike Hancock, MP for Portsmouth South and Councillor for Fratton ward, has lived here for over 30 years.

The Sakonnet River Bridge ( 1956 ) in Portsmouth, adjacent to Common Fence Point, connects the northeastern side of the island to the mainland at Tiverton over the Sakonnet River, a narrow saltwater strait.

In 1799 separate proposals were put forward for a canal from London to Portsmouth and for a tramway carrying horse-drawn carriages over the same route.

Four years later he owned his first merchantman, and would continue over time to acquire a small fleet of vessels, engaged in the triangular trade between Portsmouth, the Caribbean, and London.

On the Isle of Wight the LB & SCR and the L & SWR jointly took over the ferry service from Portsmouth harbour and built new pier facilities at Ryde, together with a short railway line from the pier to the existing station at St John's Road in 1880.

In June 1940, Richthofen and his Corps ' specific mission was to establish air superiority over the southern part of the English Channel ( near France ) and to clear British shipping from the strip of sea altogether, particularly from the region between Portsmouth and Portland.

In the summer of 1996 Terry Venables arrived at Portsmouth as a consultant, later taking over as chairman after buying the club for £ 1.