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1801. Stationed at Fermoy. The regiment being limited to European service, 
here volunteered to extend its services to Egypt, and received the approba- 
tion of His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief on the occasion. 
1802. At Cork. Second battalion reduced to the peace establisment—seven 
hundred and fifty rank and file. 
1803. At Dublin. In assisting to quell the insurrection which took place 
there, received the thanks of the Commander of the Forces for its conduct. 
From hence the regiment removed to Tullamore, Kilbeggan, and Ballinasloe. 
1804. At Birr. A second battalion formed at Devizes, England. 
1805. First battalion sailed from Middleton and embarked for the West Indies ; 
countermanded, landed, and marched to Mallow, to be otherwise employed. 
1806. First battalion sailed from Cork to join the troopsin Hanover. The 
army being about to return from thence it disembarked in England. 
Stationed at Braybourne Lees. Went into camp at Shorncliff. Embarked 
at Ramsgate for foreign service. Landed and encamped in the neighbour- 
hood of Plymouth. Sailed from thence with an expedition to the 
Mediterranean. 
1807. Arrived at Messina, in Sicily, in the course of the year sailed from 
thence with an expedition to Egypt. Remained there about four months, 
and returned to Sicily. 
1808. Flank companies and one battalion company detached to the relief of 
Scylla Castle, in Calabria, attacked by the French. Second battalion 
stationed in Jersey. 
1809. Sailed from Melazzo with an expedition under Sir John Stewart to 
Naples which captured Ischia and Procida, destroyed the magazines, and 
returned to Sicily, 
1810. Employed along the coast of Sicily, opposite Calabria, where Murat had 
' assembled a large force for the purpose of invading the island. It was 
here exposed to much harrasing duty and frequent firing from the enemy’s 
batteries, but Murat was obliged to relinquish all hopes of success, having 
been foiled in his attempt to turn the right of the British line by landing 
to the southward of Messina. In this attempt he lost fifteen hundred men. 
1811. Three companies of the regiment embarked on board the Impéreuse and 
Thames frigates, landed at Palinuro, on the Neapolitan coast,and maintained 
their ground three days against the enemy, who were one thousand strong, 
destroyed the batteries and succeeded in bringing off a valuable conyoy. 
Lieutenant Kay, of the light company, killed; Captain Oldham, of the 
grenadiers, severely wounded; one sergeant and two rank and file killed ; 
one deummer and three rank and file wounded. 
1812. The grenadier company, with the grenadier battalion, sent to the east 
of Spain. 
1813. The second battalion disembarked at Passages, in Spain, on the 6th of 
October, and joined the army under the Duke of Wellington, in Lord 
Aylmer’s brigade. It was present and took part in the operations of the 
army crossing the Bidassoa and entering France, and those on the Niye, 
in December—having been in position at the Mayor’s house, where some 
men were woundad—and also those preparatory to the investment of 
Bayonne. 
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