1840 Harpour, from Barbadoes for North America, in Her Majesty's ships Sapphire and Athol. The regiment disembarked at Chambly, in Canada, on the 21st of May. During the year 1840 the depôt companies were stationed at Buttevant and Galway. 1841 The service companies proceeded from Chambly to Drummondville, in May, 1841. 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 In June, 1841, the depôt companies were removed from Galway to Templemore. The head-quarters, under the command of Major E. B. Brooke, marched from Drummondville on the 19th of May, and arrived at St. Helen's, Montreal, on the 25th of May, 1842. On the 3rd of November, 1842, the service companies embarked in the Pestonjee Bomonjee transport at Quebec, and disembarked at Plymouth on the 15th of December following. The depôt companies joined the regiment on the 15th of December, 1842, having been removed from Ireland to Plymouth in October. In May, 1843, the regiment proceeded from Plymouth to Weedon, and in July marched to Manchester. Lieutenant-General John Clitherow was appointed by Her Majesty to be Colonel of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment, on the 15th of January, 1844, upon LieutenantGeneral Sir John Macdonald, G.C.B. (Adjutant-General to the Forces), being removed to the Forty-second, Royal Highland, regiment. In December, 1844, the regiment was removed from Manchester to Dublin. During the year 1845 the regiment continued to be stationed at Dublin. In January, 1846, the regiment marched to Limerick, and in May proceeded to Cork. At this period the regiment was augmented to twelve companies, consisting of 67 serjeants, 25 drummers, and 1846 1200 rank and file, and was subsequently organised into two battalions, preparatory to embarking on foreign service. On the 9th of November, 1846, Colonel Thomas Bunbury, K.H., commanding the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment, was promoted to the rank of Major-General, and Major Edward Basil Brooke was promoted to the lieutenantcolonelcy, vacant by the promotion of Major-General Bunbury.* During the year 1847 the SIXTY-SEVENTH continued 1847 at Cork. The first battalion embarked at Cork, under the 1848 command of Lieut.-Colonel Edward Basil Brooke, in the Herefordshire freight ship, on the 8th of January, 1848, and arrived at Gibraltar on the 19th of that month. On the 20th of January, 1848, the reserve battalion of the SIXTY SEVENTH regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel William Nesbitt Orange, embarked at Cork, in the Bombay freight-ship, and arrived at Gibraltar on the 8th of February following. General Sir Robert Wilson, then Governor of Gibraltar, in his report, dated the 18th of May, 1848, on the SIXTYSEVENTH regiment, remarked, 66 "It is a corps composed of a superior body of men, well regulated and well conducted, having had since its "arrival but nine courts-martial. "Its interior economy is carefully superintended by "Lieutenant-Colonel Brooke. "Her Majesty's Regulations are strictly observed in "all the prescribed cases. "It discharges every duty commendably, and is an "efficient portion of the Garrison for every service." * Now commanding the troops at Jamaica and its dependencies. 1848 1849 The depôt company was removed from Cork to the Isle of Wight, in February, 1848. On the 1st of May, 1849, the period to which this Record has been continued, the two battalions of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment were stationed at Gibraltar. 1849. HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE SECOND BATTALION OF THE SIXTY-SEVENTH, OR THE SOUTH HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. EUROPE gained a short cessation from hostilities by the 1803 Treaty of Amiens, and the interval of peace was employed by Napoleon Bonaparte in furthering his views for the aggrandizement of France, to enable him to become the dictator of Europe. The British Government and people, suspicious of Napoleon's projects, and roused to active measures by the threat of invasion, were enthusiastic in devising means to frustrate his designs, and the "Army of Reserve Act" was passed, for raising men for home service by ballot, while numerous volunteer and yeomanry corps were formed in every part of the kingdom. To these circumstances the SECOND BATTALION of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment owes its origin, and the battalion was formed of men raised in Ireland, for limited service under the provisions of the "Army of Reserve Act," which was passed in June, 1803; the battalion was placed on the establishment from the 9th of July following. The Second Battalion was also authorised to receive 1804 1804 men raised in Ireland, for limited service, under the "Additional Force Act," which was passed on the 14th of July, 1804. 1807 1810 1811 The battalion was stationed in Ireland until the 20th of January, 1804, when it embarked at Warren's Point, and arrived at Greenock on the 23rd of the same month. On the 29th of February, 1804, the battalion proceeded to Guernsey, where it remained until the 17th of November, 1807, when it was removed to Alderney. From Alderney the battalion returned to Guernsey in July, 1810. Six companies of the battalion, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel William Prevost, embarked for Gibraltar on the 29th of July, 1810, at which station they arrived on the 24th of September. The four companies left at Guernsey, embarked for England in August, 1810, where they continued to be stationed during the remainder of that year. The six companies of the second battalion remained at Gibraltar until the 22nd of November, 1810, when they embarked for Cadiz, to join the army under the command of Lieutenant-General Thomas Graham, afterwards Lord Lynedoch. The six companies arrived at Cadiz on the 9th of December, 1810, which was at that period besieged by a powerful French army, under Marshal Soult, who subsequently proceeded on an expedition into Estremadura, leaving Marshal Victor to blockade Cadiz. The SIXTY-SEVENTH remained at Cadiz until the 18th of February, 1811, when they proceeded with the army under the command of Lieutenant-General Thomas Graham, which consisted of a British force of about three thousand, and a body of seven thousand troops commanded by General La Pena. The design of the expe |