In July the regiment proceeded to Ireland, where it only remained a few days, before it received orders to embark for Canada, to reinforce the British troops in that country in consequence of the war between Great Britain and the United States. The regiment embarked from Cork, on the 31st of August, under Major MacGregor, and, arriving in Lower Canada in November, was stationed at Quebec.
1814
Lieut.-General the Honorable Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, K.B., was appointed Colonel of the SEVENTIETH regiment, from the 103rd foot, in January, 1814, in succession to General the Earl of Suffolk, who was removed to the forty-fourth regiment.
After performing garrison duty at Quebec eight months, the regiment proceeded to Montreal, from whence it was removed to Cornwall in Upper Canada, and in August it was brigaded with the ninth, sixteenth, and fifty-seventh, under Colonel Grant, on the line of communication from Montreal to Kingston in Upper Canada.
1815
Peace was concluded with the United States in 1815, and in June of that year the SEVENTIETH regiment was ordered to proceed to Kingston.
1816
Lieut.-General Sir G. Lowry Cole was removed to the thirty-fourth regiment in May, 1816, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the SEVENTIETH by Lieut.-General Forbes Champagné, from colonel-commandant of a battalion of the Rifle Brigade.
During this year the regiment remained at Kingston, and Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Evans, C.B., assumed the command in August.