Below is a history of the 67thRegiment of Foot from 1756-1782 It shows the date, campaign, and Battles fought, some have pictures. Click on the blue links to read about the role the Regiment played. I am trying to research all the battles and as I do I will be updating the Information I have. See the Colours

James Wolfe was appointed Colonel but this was short lived as he was appointed Brigadier-General in North America in January 1758. He died of wounds on 13th of September 1759 on the heights of Abraham at the battle of Quebec . Lieut. Colonel Lord Frederick Cavendish from the 1st Foot Guards in succession gained command. On the 30th Oct.1760 the King (now George III) removed and sent him to the 34th Foot and appointed Major-General Sir Henry Erskine, Bart., Who stayed even shorter being sent to the 25th Foot in May 1761

St. Malo

The 67th was first blooded in the abortive expedition to capture St. Malo from the French, after St. Malo it remained at home until 1761. Back

Belle Isle

In 1761 the 67th was detailed to be part of a small force under Major-General Studholme Hodgson to capture Belle Isle off the coast of Minorca , Leaving on the March 26th and arriving April 6th. The 67th being brigaded with the 9th & 76th foot, Port Andro was selected on April 8th for the landing the grenadier companies leading the way, two battalions made a feint against Sauzon, on the Northern coast west of Palais the stronghold. The grenadiers that landed after repeated attempts to advance found that they could not advance without storming ladder.

The 67th's grenadiers under Captain Osborne reached the shore some distance from the main body and managed to scale the cliff and engage the French commander but due to overwhelming odds and not being able to back them up in time Captain Osborne was killed and only 20 wounded men made it back, the rest being killed or captured. 4oo casualties and been inflicted and another attempt to land could not be made for two weeks due to bad weather.

This time the main landing would be near Fort d'Arsic and another feint would be east of Palais if a landing was possible and advantage could be gained they were to do so. It was this feint made by the 19th foot and marines supporting that managed to get the men ashore unopposed. Some of the men were pushed back after climbing the steep cliff but the French did not have time to counter-attack in force. Three guns being captured and before nightfall all the troops were ashore and the leading units were three miles inland. The French had withdrawn to Palais which was strongly fortified with outer line of entrenchments and reboubts.

The British forces waited for there heavy siege guns to arrive which they did on May 2nd and on May 3rd a sortie was attempted but driven back with heavy losses it did capture a brigadier. On May 13th a reboubt on the outer defences was assaulted and its capture lead to the French evacuating two more seeing the fear in the French the remaining three were ordered taken with little loss. Once a lodgement in the town had been effected which the French evacuated the citadel was closely beset.

The defence's soon began to fall when more heavy guns arrived and on May 15th a large enough breach had been made the defenders still laid down a heavy fire causing many casualties The end of May saw 4 more battalions arriving and the 67th re-brigaded with the 21st Fusiliers and the 85th foot. The end came on June 7th the governor seeing the British forces about to assault surrendered due to the large size of the breach and the fact that most of the garrison had become casualties.

Total British casualties were 800. Several of Hodgson's regiments returned home at almost at once, several were dispatched to the West Indies. The 67th remained and sickness became rampant of the 7000 men on Belle Isle 1000 were sick. The 67th was sent on the Portugal Campaign in 1762

Regiments that took part were: (according to history of the 67th foot by Richard Cannon)

Portugal Campaign

France and Spain attempted to coerce Portugal to unite against England . Portugal was at this time weak and was resolved to adhere to his ancient alliance with England and in doing so France and Spain declared war against Portugal . The 67th arrived in Portugal June 16th 1762 with 824 rank and file and pushed up the Tagus towards Abrantes. Spent winter in Frontierra, shortly afterwards preliminaries of peace were signed on November 3rd

Minorca

The French had captured Minorca in April 1756 and was to handed back the England . The 67th and the 3rd foot from Portugal where sent to Minorca . The 37th, 11th and 33rd Foot came from Germany and 57th foot from Gibraltar came together to form the garrison of Minorca . So during the years 1763-1771 the 67th was based in Minorca along side the 37th of Foot and saw sporadic fighting in the West Indies against the French. In July 1771 the 67th, 3rd, and 11th foot went to England after being relieved by the Royals 2nd battalion, the 51st, and the 61st Foot.