1778
1779
1780
During the summer of 1778, the regiment was encamped, with the twenty-fifth, sixty-ninth, seventy-ninth, and ten militia corps, at Warley, under the orders of Lieut.-General Pierson. In the following year the regiment was encamped at Coxheath, with the fourteenth, fiftieth, sixty-fifth, sixty-ninth, and sixteen corps of militia; and in 1780 it was encamped at Rye, under Major-General Sloper.
1782
In 1782 county titles were given to regiments, in order to facilitate the procuring of recruits; and the Sixth were designated the First Warwickshire regiment: at the same time the officers were directed to cultivate a connection with that division of the county, so as to create a mutual attachment between the inhabitants of Warwickshire and the regiment.
1783
The Sixth had previously proceeded to the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, from whence they were removed to Ireland in the autumn of 1783.
1786
On the 5th of May, 1786, the regiment embarked from Ireland for North America, to relieve the seventeenth at Nova Scotia, and was stationed in that island for several years.
1787
1792
General Sir William Boothby, Baronet, died at Bath on the 15th of April, 1787, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the Sixth by Lieut.-General Lancelot Baugh, from the fifty-eighth regiment; after whose decease in 1792, Sir Ralph Abercromby was appointed colonel of the Sixth, from the sixty-ninth regiment.