The depôt companies of the regiment returned to England in June 1840, and were stationed at Carlisle: they were removed to Tynemouth in May, and to Hull in June 1841: they remained at the latter station until August 1842, when they proceeded to Airdrie, and in the following month they marched to Paisley. On the 15th of March 1841, Major-General Sir Hugh (now Viscount) Gough, K.C.B., was removed from the colonelcy of the Ninety-ninth to that of the EIGHTY-SEVENTH regiment, in succession to Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Reynell, Bart., K.C.B., appointed to the Seventy-first light infantry. [Sidenote: 1843.] The number of drummers on the establishment of the regiment was increased from fourteen to seventeen, on the 1st of April 1843. The service companies had continued at the Mauritius from June 1831 to the 20th of June 1843, when they embarked for the United Kingdom on board Her Majesty’s ship “Thunderer,” and disembarked at Devonport on the 30th of September 1843. On the 29th of September 1843, the depôt companies marched from Paisley _en route_ to Fort George. The head-quarters of the regiment were embarked for Scotland on the 2nd, and arrived at Glasgow on the 4th of October 1843; and on the 29th the depôt companies were taken on the strength, and amalgamated with the regiment. [Sidenote: 1844 to 1847.] The regiment remained at Glasgow until August 1844, when it marched for Edinburgh, and in July 1845 it moved to Aberdeen: in September 1846 the regiment proceeded to Newport in Monmouthshire, and in September 1847 it marched for Weedon. [Sidenote: 1848.] On the 1st of April 1848, the regiment was augmented to fifty-seven serjeants, twenty-one drummers, fifty corporals, and nine hundred and fifty privates, and another serjeant was added in the following year, to raise it to the India establishment. [Sidenote: 1849.] The regiment proceeded to Gravesend in April 1849, and on the 20th of that month it embarked for the East Indies, and arrived at Calcutta on the 31st of July 1849, and is at present serving in the Bengal presidency. [Sidenote: 1853.] The depôt company was moved, in March 1849, from Weedon to Chatham, where it now continues a part of the provisional battalion. 1853. [Illustration: QUEEN’S COLOR REGIMENTAL COLOR THE 87^{TH} REGIMENT OR THE ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS FOR CANNONS MILITARY RECORDS _Madeley lith 3, Wellington S^t. Strand_] FOOTNOTES: [6] A list of the battalions formed from men raised under the “_Army of Reserve_” and “_Additional Force Acts_” is inserted in pages 97, &c. of the Appendix. [7] In June 1806, _Buenos Ayres_ had been captured by the British under Brigadier-General William Carr Beresford, afterwards General Viscount Beresford; the place was, however, recovered by the Spaniards in August following, and the troops became prisoners.