g16 “The Wiltshire Regiment for Wiltshire.” 
1769. Returned to Ireland. Stationed at Cork. Reduced on the Peace to 
two hundred and seventy rauk and file. Stationed at Kinsale. Establish - 
ment increased to four hundred. 
L771. Stationed at Dublin. 
1772. Stationed at Clare Castle, 
1773. Stationed at Dublin. 
1774. Stationed at Cork. 
1775. Stationed at Galway. Establishment raised to five hundred and eighty. 
1776. Embarked at Cork for America, and landed in Canada. Served the 
campaign of this year under General Burgoyne, and was captured with 
him at Saratoga. In this campaign it had killed and wounded one 
lieutenant-colonel, one major, two captains, fourteen subalterns, fifteen 
sergeants, nine drummers, and seventy-four rank and file. Was called 
Springers from having acted as a light infantry battalion during this 
campaign. Remained prisoners three years and then returned to England. 
1780. Stationed at Lincoln this and following year. 
1782. Stationed at Newark. Flank companies detached to Windsor, doing 
duty over his Majesty. 
1783. Stationed at Trowbridge. Marched from thence to Hilsea to embark 
for foreign service, but peace haying taken place its embarkation was 
countermanded. 
1784. It marched to Berwick, Musselburgh and Dundee. From thence em- 
barked for Ireland. 
1785, Stationed at Galway. 
1786. Stationed at Dublin. 
1787. Stationed at Killarney, Ross Castle, &o., &e. 
1788. Stationed at Youghall this and following year. Establishment reduced 
to four hundred rank and file. 
1790. Embarked for Nova Scotia and arrived at Halifax. From thence, without 
* landing, was ordered to Jamaica. : 
1793, Establishment increased to five hundred and seventy ; following year to 
eight hundred and fifty, and the next to one thousand men. 
1796. Employed against the Maroons and in the operations at St. Domingo 
this and the following year. Having lost about twenty-five officers and 
the greater part of the men, the few remaining were drafted, and the 
skeleton of the regiment ordered to England, landed at Portsmouth and 
marched to Poole, 
1798. Stationed at Exeter. Recruited from supplementary militia. The whole 
of the men which could be spared from recruiting were formed into a light 
company and detached into Cornwall to form a light infantry battalion 
with some militia light companies. Head-quarters of the battalion re- 
. moved to South Molton, from thence to Helston, in Cornwall. 
1799. Marched to Poole, ordered to recruit from militia. Received thirteen 
hundred men; then formed into twobattalions. Establishment eight hundred 
each, under orders to join the army in Holland, but that returning the above 
order was countermanded. 
1800. Disturbances still existing in Ireland, both battalions ordered to that — 
country. 
