Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1881.

[1][2] Elements of the regiment joined the fleet which sailed from Spithead in July 1702[3] and saw action as marines at the Battle of Vigo Bay in October 1702.

[5] The regiment also took part in the capture and defence of Gibraltar in July 1704[6] and suffered very heavy losses at the Battle of Almansa in April 1707.

[9] In summer 1742 the regiment was despatched to Belgium for service in the War of the Austrian Succession:[10] it was held in reserve at the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743.

[1] In late 1775, Rockingham Castle, which had been hired to transport three companies of the regiment, along with a number of their families, making for Cobh in a heavy gale, mistook Robert's Cove for the entrance to Cork harbour, and was driven onto a lee shore at Reannie's Bay, a few miles distant.

[16] The regiment was deployed to Denmark in July 1807 and were ordered aboard the captured Danish ships as marines at the Battle of Copenhagen in August 1807 during the Gunboat War.

[19] The regiment fought under General Sir John Moore in the retreat to Corunna,[20] and on returning to England they were part of the Walcheren Campaign in the Netherlands where many were struck down with malaria.

The regiment was commanded on the field by Lieutenant-Colonel John Hicks and numbered at 503 men at the battle of Waterloo having suffered casualties at Quatre Bras.