Minorca was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and the Twelfth regiment was one of the corps selected to form part of the garrison of that island.
1717
Colonel Phillips was appointed to the command of the fortieth foot, on the formation of that regiment from non-regimented companies in America, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the Twelfth by Colonel Thomas Stanwix, from the thirtieth foot, whose commission was dated the 25th of August, 1717.
1719
Having been relieved from duty at Minorca, in 1719, the regiment returned to England, where it arrived in October of that year.
1722
In the summer of 1722, the regiment was encamped on Salisbury Plain, and it was reviewed on the 30th of August by King George I., and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, afterwards King George II.
1725
On the 14th of March, 1725, Brigadier-General Thomas Stanwix died, and King George I. conferred the colonelcy of the regiment on Major-General Thomas Whetham, from the twenty-seventh foot.
1739