When the EARL OF PLYMOUTH'S regiment was raised, many of the officers of MONMOUTH'S late regiment were appointed to commissions in this new corps, through whose influence many of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers, who had served in the Netherlands, France, and Germany, were induced to enter the same regiment. By these means, and by the aid of a few men from the _Holland regiment_, now third foot, or the buff's, the EARL OF PLYMOUTH'S, or SECOND TANGIER REGIMENT, was completed in numbers, equipped,[8] instructed in the simple exercises practised at the time, and ready to embark for foreign service in less than four months after the order for its being raised was issued. The service for which these forces were raised being urgent, three of the troops of cavalry (Langston's, Nedby's, and Coy's) were provided with horses from the life guards and royal regiment of horse guards, and sailed as soon as possible; the EARL OF PLYMOUTH'S regiment also embarked with all possible expedition, and sailed in November. In the mean time the garrison of TANGIER had overpowered the Moorish army in a sharp action under the walls, and a truce had been agreed upon for six months; and when information of this event arrived in England, the other three troops of horse (viz. Ossory's, Lanier's, and Pulteney's) were disbanded. This truce was in operation when the EARL OF PLYMOUTH'S regiment arrived at TANGIER; and the officers and men learned that their colonel had died a few weeks previously of dysentery. He was succeeded in the colonelcy by the lieut.-colonel, PIERCY KIRKE, who was also appointed commander-in-chief of the garrison.