Historical Record of the Thirty-sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1701, and of its subsequent services to 1852

by Richard Cannon

1764.

The Thirty-sixth regiment embarked on the 17th of March 1764 for Jamaica, in which island it was stationed for some years.

1765.

Major-General Richard Pierson was removed from the Sixty-third to the Thirty-sixth regiment on the 11th of September 1765, in succession to Lieut.-General Lord Robert Manners, appointed to the Third dragoon guards.

1773.

In 1773 the Thirty-sixth returned home from Jamaica, and the regiment arrived in England in June of that year.

1774.

On the 6th of August 1774, the light infantry companies of the Third, Eleventh, Twenty-first, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-second, Thirty-sixth, and Seventieth regiments assembled at Salisbury, where they were formed into a brigade, and disciplined under the command of Major-General the Honourable Sir William Howe until the 4th of October following, when they were reviewed by His Majesty King George III. in Richmond Park, and were afterwards ordered to rejoin their respective regiments.

1775.

The war with the American colonies commenced in April 1775, but the Thirty-sixth regiment did not proceed to that country; on the 10th of September following it embarked at Portsmouth for Ireland, where it was stationed for the seven following years.