[5] The regiment suffered a number of attacks while garrisoning the citadel, the rest of the force having moved to the more hospitable east of the island.

[7] In 1775 the regiment arrived in America in response to a request for reinforcements due to the outbreak of the American War of Independence.

[8] The regiment took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775, with a third attack, which ended in a bayonet charge, finally breaking the Americans.

That same year, the regiment were part of a force designed to take a number of Caribbean islands under Dutch and French control.

[19] The regiment took part in a variety of operations on the islands in the Caribbean, including helping to put down Fédon's rebellion in the Grenada in 1796.

[Note 1] The 1st battalion became the garrison for island, suffering heavily from diseases one would expect in such tropical weather at that time.

[27] Meanwhile, the 2nd battalion took part in the disastrous Walcheren Campaign in autumn 1809, suffering from terrible fever while assisting in the capture of a number of towns on the island.

[30] The regiment was involved in an expedition to Portugal due to fears of impending insurrection in the country and landed there in January 1827.

[31] In 1829, the regiment began providing escorts for convict ships traveling to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

A detachment of the regiment was present at the foundation ceremony of Perth in 1829, and had arrived in Western Australia that same year, on the warship HMS Sulphur.

The officer commanding the detachment of the regiment at the ceremony, Captain Frederick Chidley Irwin, would later twice serve as administrator of Western Australia.

[42] Upon their arrival at the dockyard in Halifax, a large crowd of many thousands came out to greet the regiment, as if they were a modern-day football team.