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the few remaining were drafted, and the skeleton of the regi- 
ment ordered to Engiand. Landed at Portsmouth and marched 
to Poole. 
h 1798 Stationed at Exeter. Recruited from supplementary militia. 
The whole of the men who could be spared from recruiting 
were formed into a light company, and detached into Cornwall 
a to form a light infantry battalion with some militia light com- 
; panies. Head-quarters of the battalion removed to South 
| Molton, from thence to Helston, in Cornwall. 
| 1799 Marched to Poole. Ordered to recruit from the militia ; re- 
| ceived thirteen hundred men; formed into two battalions, 
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 were 
ordered to that country. 
1801 Stationed at Fermoy. The regiment being limited to European 
service here volunteered to extend its services to Egypt, and 
received the approbation of His Royal Highness the Com- 
mander-in-Chief on that occasion. 
1802 At Cork. Second battalion reduced to peace establishment, 
seven hundred and fifty rank and file. 
1803 At Dublin. In assisting to quell the insurrection that 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 trom 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 troops in Hanover, 
but the army being about to return from thence it disembarked 
in England. Stationed at Brayborne Lees, and went into 
‘camp at Shorncliffe. 
Embarked at Ramsgate for foreign service, landed and en- 
camped in the neighbourhood of Plymouth. Sailed from thence 
with the 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 
Biiature of Stewart to Naples, which captured Ischia and Procida, des- 
Ischia& Procida, troyed 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 
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