Which preposition to use with portsmouth

for Occurrences 12%

I was so successful in this business as finally to become the owner of the Joseph B., which vessel I exchanged away at Portsmouth for the Sophronia, a top-sail schooner of one hundred and sixty tons, worth about fourteen hundred dollars.

on Occurrences 8%

They afterwards took St. Augustin, and, touching at Virginia, took on board the governour, Mr. Lane, with the English that had been left there, the year before, by sir Walter Raleigh, and arrived at Portsmouth on July 28, 1586, having lost in the voyage seven hundred and fifty men.

to Occurrences 7%

And there will be a destroyer waiting at Portsmouth to-night with instructions to put ashore secretly anywhere you like across the Channel.

in Occurrences 7%

This is November, and the Rampagiousthe ship described on your paperleft for Portsmouth in August.

without Occurrences 3%

I read what was written, and I have not suffered greater painno, not upon that day when I fled from Portsmouth without a word of good-bye to the woman who possessed my heart.

at Occurrences 2%

During the latter part of the summer of 1793, having passed a month in the Isle of Wight, in view of the fleet which was then preparing for sea off Portsmouth at the commencement of the war, I left the place with melancholy forebodings.

by Occurrences 1%

Madeleine Perth was telling me this afternoon that the White Star people are running a few ships from Portsmouth by way of Cherbourg around by Gibraltar, through the Mediterranean to Naples.

from Occurrences 1%

The American officers all hated Arnold with such thorough hatred that they tried to persuade the French officers to shut up Elizabeth River by sea, while they attacked him at Portsmouth from the land; but the Frenchmen declined cooperation, and Steuben was always left to boast of what he might have done.

between Occurrences 1%

The Treaty of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan.

after Occurrences 1%

In the midst of a terrible storm the king crossed the Channel on the 3rd of March 1170, and barely escaping with his life, landed at Portsmouth after four years' absence.

under Occurrences 1%

Followed then the war with Mexico and the occupation by the officers and men of the United States sloop-of-war Portsmouth under Commodore John Montgomery, who broke the American flag to the breeze in the Plaza.

during Occurrences 1%

Some of the leading politicians established themselves at Portsmouth during the trial.

about Occurrences 1%

On the early morning of the next day, the 9th, I having come back to Portsmouth about eleven the previous night, when I bid her 'Good morning' through the telephone, she said 'Good morning,' and not another word.

Which preposition to use with  portsmouth