[2] The regiment was sent to join the Duke of York's army in the Netherlands in summer 1794 as part of the unsuccessful defence of that country against the Republican French during the Flanders Campaign.

[4] The regiment was reformed and embarked for the West Indies in October 1796[4] and helped carry out an unsuccessful attack on Puerto Rico in April 1797.

[2] The 1st Battalion sailed for South America in September 1806[8] and took part in the disastrous expedition under Sir Home Popham: it saw action at the Battle of Montevideo in February 1807[9] and the unsuccessful attack on Buenos Aires in July 1807.

[10] The 1st Battalion sailed on to the Cape of Good Hope in August 1807[11] and then took part in the Invasion of Isle de France in December 1810.

[16] At Barrosa, Ensign Edward Keogh and Sergeant Patrick Masterson captured the French Imperial Eagle of the 8th Regiment de Ligne.

[19] At Vitoria, it was bugler Paddy Shannon of the 2nd Battalion who "picked up" Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan's baton at the end of the battle.

[23] The regiment remained in India and was deployed to Burma in October 1825 for service in the First Anglo-Burmese War:[24] it formed part of an army which advanced up the River Irrawaddy to the Kingdom of Ava.