Having received another draft of recruits, the regiment marched in April, 1710, to the vicinity of Tournay, where the army was directed to assemble; its services were connected with the forcing of the enemy's fortified lines at _Pont-à-Vendin_; it also formed part of the covering army during the siege of _Douay_, which fortress surrendered on the 27th of June. The regiment was afterwards employed in covering the siege of _Bethune_, and this fortress was captured before the end of August. The French army avoiding a general engagement, the fortresses of _Aire_ and _St. Venant_ were besieged at the same time, and after the capture of these towns, the regiment returned to Ghent. [Sidenote: 1711] Brigadier-General Godfrey withdrew from the service, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by Brigadier-General Henry Durell, from the foot guards, by commission dated the 17th of February, 1711. In the campaign of this year the regiment shared in the operations by which the boasted impregnable lines, prepared by the French to arrest the progress of the allied armies, were passed at _Arleux_, on the 5th of August, and it was subsequently engaged in the siege of the strong fortress of _Bouchain_,--services which called forth all the powers of the active mind of the Duke of Marlborough, who proved himself superior to the French generals in all the qualities which constitute a great commander. Bouchain having been captured, the regiment was placed in garrison for the winter. [Sidenote: 1712] Once more taking the field in April, 1712, the regiment joined the army near Tournay, from whence it marched to the vicinity of Bouchain, and was encamped at Cateau-Cambresis during the siege of _Quesnoy_ by the Germans; it brought six hundred and eighty-one rank and file into the field. The garrison of _Quesnoy_ surrendered on the 4th of July; and soon afterwards a suspension of arms was proclaimed preparatory to a treaty of peace, and the British troops withdrew to the vicinity of Ghent, from whence the SIXTEENTH were detached to Dunkirk, which city the French monarch delivered into the hands of the British, as a pledge of his sincerity in the negotiations for peace. [Sidenote: 1713] On the 1st of December, 1712, Brigadier-General Durell died, and Queen Anne conferred the colonelcy of the regiment on Brigadier-General Hans Hamilton, from the thirty-fourth regiment, by commission dated the 23rd of June, 1713. [Sidenote: 1714] The regiment was stationed at Dunkirk until April, 1714, when it embarked for Scotland, and, landing at Leith, relieved the twenty-fifth regiment, which was ordered to embark for Ireland. The SIXTEENTH were stationed at Stirling in September, 1714, with the Inniskilling dragoons, when the arrival in London of King George I. from Hanover, was celebrated with public rejoicings. [Sidenote: 1715]