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8rd. Four companies of the Sixty-Second Regiment served under General 
Amherst on the reduction of Louisberg, in 1758, and the following year 
at the fall of Quebec, under General Wolfe. 
While the regiment was stationed in Ireland, in 1760, the French landed 
twelve hundred men under Thurot, at Carrickfergus, where three companies 
were quartered under Colonel Jennings, consisting of about one hundred 
and thirty men. He took post in a ruinous old castle with a breach 
twenty feet wide, which the enemy stormed three times but were repulsed 
with the bayonet. At length being wounded himself, having lost a num- 
ber of his men, his ammunition being entirely expended, and there being 
no hope of receiving succour, he was under the necessity of capitulating ; 
but on account of the gallant defence made by the detachment they 
marched out with the honours of war, and were allowed to remain prisoners 
(on parole) in Ireland until exchanged. During the American Revolution 
the regiment served in Canada under Sir Guy Carleton in 1776, and the 
following year composed part of that gallant but unfortunate army, under 
General Burgoyne. It distinguished itself at the action which took place 
at Still Water, on the 19th September, and also in that of the 8th of 
October following, prior to the convention of Saratoga. Having in this 
campaign acted as a light infantry battalion, it was called Springers, by 
which appellation it is still known in the British Army. 
The regiment while in the West Indies was employed in the Maroon 
Wars and in the operations in St. Domingo. In Ireland it assisted in 
quelling the disturbances which took place in Dublin in the year 1803. 
The Sixty-Second Regiment while in Egypt generally occupied the ad- 
vanced posts, and on its return to Sicily the flank and a battalion company 
were sent to the defence of Scylla Castle, in Calabria. The regiment aecom- 
panied the expedition, under General Stewart, to the Bay of Naples, in 
1809, which ended in the capture of the islands Ischia and Procida. It 
was afterwards employed in the coast duty between the Faro and Messina, 
during Murat’s threatened invasion of Sicily, for which purpose he col- 
lected a large force on the opposite shore. 
In 1811 information having been given by the Impéreuse and Thames 
frigates that a valuable convoy for Naples had put into Palinuro, for the 
capture of which a land-force was necessary, the Grenadiers and two 
battalion companies of the 62nd Regiment, under the command of Major 
Darley, were despatched from Melazzo for that service. They arrived off 
that place on the 1st of November. Immediately landed and by climbing 
up a very steep precipice succeeded in turning the enemy’s flank at a point 
in which (from the nature of the ground) he thought himself secure. He 
was strongly pested, with upwards of one thousand men, for the protection 
of the only landing-place deemed practicable. This detachment, without 
provisions or water, maintained its ground for two days against repeated 
attacks, and the third, when the wind answered for the ships to come in 
and silence the gun-boats, battery, and tower which protected the convoy, 
the whole was captured and the defences of the place destroyed. 
The grenadier company of the 62nd Regiment composed a part of the 
grenadier battalion which went from Sicily to the eastern coast of Spain, 
