Regimental Timeline

March - November

Regiment embarked for service on the Channel Fleet.

1^st June

Battle of the Glorious First of June.

November

Regiment disembarked for service in the West Indies. Remains until 1797.

1^st Battalion:

West Indies.

New Colours presented.

2^nd Battalion:

Second battalion raised. Serves in England and in Guernsey.

March - May

2^nd Battalion amalgamated with 1^st Battalion.

Re-capture of St Lucia
Regiment badly reduced by disease in the West Indies

Regiment embarks for Ireland; Wolfe Tone’s Fenian rebellion.

Regiment embarks for the Helder campaign in the Netherlands.
Bergen.

2^nd October

Battle of Egmont-op-Zee.

Regiment serves in Minorca, Malta, and the British Ionian Islands.

1801

Peace of Amiens

Regiment serves with Abercrombie’s expedition against Napoleon in Egypt.

8^th March

Actions at Aboukir Bay;

13^th March

Mandora;

21^st March

Alexandria. First battle honour awarded contemporaneously – the Sphinx, superscribed “Egypt” (6^th July 1802).