by Major-General Sir Herbert Taylor; the British troops were concentrated in and near Williamstadt. [Sidenote: 1814] About the same period the first battalion took the field in India, and formed part of the force assembled at Goute, from whence it proceeded against _Canool_, where it arrived on the 25th of December, and batteries were erected during the night, but a flag of truce being sent out on the following morning, hostilities ceased. The battalion was also at the reduction of the fort of _Raree_, Goosecull; and passed the monsoon in quarters at Cataubaugy; afterwards returning to Goute, it was relieved in the field by the second battalion of the Royals; it had lost three hundred and fifty men from disease, and was so reduced, that it was ordered to return to Bellary; it subsequently marched to Fort St. George, Madras. The third battalion did not remain many days in quarters in Holland before it was employed in active operations, in consequence of a request of the Prussian general, Bulow, that the British would make a forward movement upon _Antwerp_, to favour his operations; the English general accordingly advanced to make a reconnoissance, and approaching that fortress on the 13th of January, attacked a body of French troops at the village of _Merxem_. On this occasion the FIFTY-SIXTH supported the Seventy-eighth Highlanders, in a charge with the bayonet, on a French column, which was driven from its ground. The FIFTY-SIXTH were engaged in a sharp skirmish, and had four men killed and fourteen wounded. The object of this movement having been accomplished, the British troops marched to Rosendael.