1774
On the decease of Lieut.-General Hamilton Lambert in 1774, His Majesty was pleased to promote Lieut.-Colonel Edward Maxwell Brown, from the Twenty-first, Royal North British Fusiliers, to the colonelcy of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment, on the 11th of March, 1774.
1775
The regiment embarked for Ireland in 1775, to replace the Forty-second, Royal Highland regiment, and continued on duty in that country until the year 1785.
1782
On the 31st of August, 1782, His Majesty directed that the regiment should be designated the SIXTY-SEVENTH, or the South Hampshire regiment, with a view that a connexion might be cultivated between the corps and that county, in order to promote the success of the recruiting service.
1785
Early in the year 1785 the regiment embarked from Ireland for the West Indies, to relieve the Fifty-fifth regiment.
The regiment proceeded from Barbadoes to Antigua in the autumn of 1785.
1788