218 “The Wiltshire Regiment for Wiltshire.” 
1814. The first battalion sailed with an expedition, Landed at Leghorn, 
marched from thence to Genoa, the enemy retiring upon the latter, where 
an action took place which terminated in itscapture. The regiment, in 
common with the rest of the troops employed, received the thanks of His 
Royal Highness the Prince Regent on this occasion. Sailed from Genoa 
with an expedition to the coast of America. Arrived at Halifax. Went 
into camp. From thence proceeded against Castine, situated on the Pen- 
obscot, in the district of Maine. ‘The place, together with the whole 
district east of the Penobscot, surrendered with shipping, stores, &e. The 
regiment received the thanks of His Royal Highness on this occasion, in 
common with the rest of the troops employed. 
The second battalion remained in the neighbourhood of Haves until 
the end of August, when it embarked for Ireland, and landed at the Cove 
of Cork the 7th September, and marched to Kinsale. The second battalion 
was commanded during this service by Lt.-Col. N. Blackwell, who received 
a Peninsular medal in consequence. The battalion partook of the royal 
and parliamentary thanks given to the army. 
1815. The district of Maine being restored to the Americans on the conclusion 
of peace, the first battalion returned to Halifax. Left wing detached to 
Bermuda. 
The second battalion was quartered in Mallow and Kinsale until July, 
when it marched to Cork and embarked on the 8th of that month to join 
the army under the Duke of Wellington, in France. Disembarked at 
Ostend, on the 17th July, marched to Paris, and were quartered at Monte 
- Martre and Belleville. 
1816. First battalion quartered at Halifax and Bermuda. The second batt- 
alion marched from Paris and embarked at Calais on the 11th January. 
Disembarked at Dover and Ramsgate, 14th January. Embarked again the 
24th January, and sailed for Ireland, disembarked at Monkstown, 2nd 
February, except Captain Radford’s and Captain Reed’s companies, which 
were wrecked off Kinsale. Captain Radford was drowned, but the whole 
1817.of the men saved. The battalion proceeded to Fermoy, from whence it 
marched to Dundalk and Drogheda, where it remained until April, when 
it marched to Dublin, and was reduced on the 24th of that month sending 
four hundred men to complete the first battalion at Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
1818. The Sixty-Second Regiment remained stationed at Halifax and Bermuda, 
1819. The left wing joined the regiment at Halifax. 
1820. One battalion company detached to Anuapolis and Windsor; the re- 
mainder of the regiment remained at Halifax. 
°1821. A battalion company detached this year to Cape Breton and Prince 
Edward’s Island, and establishment of the regiment reduced to eight 
companies. 
1822. The regiment remained quartered between Halifax, Cape Breton, Prince 
Edward’s Island, Annapolis and Windsor. 
1823. The regiment embarked at Halifax, in three divisions, on the 25th 
August, and 13th and 18th September. Arrived at Portsmouth on the 
17th September, and 7th and 8th of October, from whence it was ordered 
to proceed to Ireland, and landed at Ballinacor, on 22nd and 23rd of 
