212 “The Wiltshire. Regiment for Wiltshire.” 
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Srxty-Seconp REGIMENT. 
ist. The Sixty-Second Regiment was raised in 1756, and added as a second 
battalion to the Fourth Kegiment, and from 21st April, 1758, it was num- 
beredthe Sixty-Second, and the command of it was conferred on Colonel 
William Strode. 
2nd. The regiment was sent to Canada in 1759, from whence, after the cam- 
paign, it returned to Ireland in 1760. J 
In 1763 the Regiment was sent to the West Indies and stationed at 
Dominica; it returned to Ireland in June, 1769, where it remained till 
June, 1776, when it was sent to Canada, and served under Sir Guy Carleton 
and General Burgoyne, until the convention of Saratoga, in October, 1777. 
The Regiment remained prisoners of war from October, 1777, till Novem- 
ber, 1780, when it returned to England. It went to Scotland in February, 
1784, and was sent to Ireland in October of the same year, from whence 
it embarked for Nova Scotia in May, 1790, but on arrival at Halifax was 
directed to proceed to Jamaica, where it arrived in the month of July. 
The regiment returned to England from the West Indies in May, 1797. 
A second battalion was added to it in October, 1799, and both were sent 
to Ireland in May, 1800. The following year, being limited to European 
service, they volunteered to join ‘the army in Egypt, under Sir Ralph 
Abercromby. The second battalion was reduced at the peace, in July, 
1802, and was again formed in July, 1804. 
The first battalion sailed from Ireland in December, 1808, to join the 
troops in Hanover, but being recalled landed in England, February, 1806, 
from whence it again embarked in August, for the Mediterranean, and 
landed at Messina, in Sicily, the 4th of December of the same year. 
The first battalion went to Egypt in May, 1807, and returned to Sicily 
the November following. 
In June, 1809, the first battalion went to Ischia and Procida, (Bay of 
Naples), and returned to Sicily in August. 
The second battalion, Sixty-Second Regiment, had remained quartered in 
England and Jersey since its formation until February, 1813, when it sailed 
for Ireland. It embarked from thenee the September following and joined 
the army under the Duke of Wellington in Spain. 
The first battalion embarked from Sicily in February, 1814, arrived at 
Leghorn, iv Italy, in March, and served the campaign under Lord William 
Bentinck, which terminate in the fall of Genoa. It embarked in May for 
Nova Scotia, arrived at Halifax in August, and was sent to the United 
States, where having assisted in the captures made in’ the Penobscot in 
September, it remained at Castine until delivered up at the peace in May, 
1815, when it returned to Halifax. 
The second battalion Sixty-Second Regiment returned from Spain to 
Ireland, September, 1814, and in July 1815 joined the army in France ; 
from which country it embarked for England in January, 1816, and was 
sent the following month to Ireland, where it remained till disbanded on 
the 24th of March, 1817, 
The left wing of the first battalion was sent to Bermuda, in July, 1815; 
and joined the head quarters-at Halifax in the month of July, 1819, 
