After the uprising Charles Radclyffe 5th Earl of Derwentwater a Captain in Dillon's Regiment was executed on December 8th, 1746 at Tower Hill, London.

Detachments of the regiment were assigned to the French Fleet under Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse during the Battle of the Chesapeake.

After the victory at Yorktown, the fleet sailed south and Dillon's Regiment participated in the Siege of Brimstone Hill.

Brigadier General Arthur Dillon was made Military Governor of Saint Kitts after the victory at Brimstone Hill.

These elements comprised the greater part of the officers who had emigrated from France, and new recruits raised on the Dillon lands in Ireland.