[Sidenote: 1795] On the 3rd of January, 1795, the officers, staff, and such non-commssioned officers and soldiers as had not been transferred to other corps embarked from Martinico, and sailed for England; they arrived at Gravesend on the 18th of February, and were stationed at Chatham: active measures were adopted to recruit the ranks of the regiment. After commanding the regiment nearly thirty years, General Walsh died, and was succeeded in the colonelcy by Major-General Samuel Hulse, from the lieut.-colonelcy of the First Foot Guards, by commission, dated the 7th of March, 1795. In September the regiment marched to Gravesend, where it embarked for Cork, and landed at Spike Island on the 1st of October. [Sidenote: 1796] Great success had attended the recruiting and training of the regiment, and although one year only had elapsed since its return from the West Indies a skeleton, it had attained so perfect a state of discipline and efficiency, that in the early part of 1796 it proceeded to Barbadoes, from whence it was detached to St. Domingo, where it served under Major-General White, by whom it was employed at the taking of _Bombarde_ in the district of Mole, St. Nicholas, which was captured, and the works destroyed. [Sidenote: 1797] On the 24th of January, 1797, Major-General Hulse was removed to the Nineteenth Regiment, and the colonelcy of the FIFTY-SIXTH was conferred on Major-General the Hon. Chapple Norton, from the Eighty-first Regiment. [Sidenote: 1798] In this year the regiment was employed in the district of Grand Ance in the island of St. Domingo; it took part in the attack of _Port Jack Thomas_, and in the defence of Irois, under Major-General Brent Spencer, also in the attack made on the town of _St. Mary’s_, after which it returned to Port St. Nicholas. When the island was given up, the regiment proceeded to Jamaica, where it remained until November, 1798, when it embarked from Kingston, for England. [Sidenote: 1799] Arriving at Gravesend on the 31st of January, 1799, the regiment landed, and proceeded to Chatham. It was afterwards removed to different counties in England, and active measures were adopted with success to recruit its diminished numbers. At this period a favorable opportunity appeared to present itself for rescuing Holland from the power of France, into which it had fallen during the early part of 1795, and a plan of co-operation was concerted between Great Britain and Russia, in the expectation that the Dutch would rise against the French, and, aided by the Anglo-Russian force, would exert themselves to effect their emancipation. The FIFTY-SIXTH being selected to share in this enterprise, joined the troops at Barham Downs on the 31st of July, and in the middle of September embarked at Deal for Holland.