During part of the year 1784, the head-quarters were at Lincoln, with detachments along the coast; in 1785 they were removed to York, with detached troops in Northumberland, Durham, and on the Yorkshire coast. [Sidenote: 1786] [Sidenote: 1787] [Sidenote: 1788] [Sidenote: 1789] [Sidenote: 1790] [Sidenote: 1791] [Sidenote: 1792] In 1786 and 1787 the regiment was stationed in Lancashire; in 1788 the head-quarters were at Exeter, with detachments on the Devonshire coast; they were removed to Dorchester in 1789; to Winchester in 1790; to Ipswich in 1791; and to York in 1792, with detachments on coast duty. [Sidenote: 1793] A revolution had, in the mean time, taken place in France; and a violent republican party had seized the reins of government, and imprisoned their king. These indications of an approaching war occasioned the establishment of the regiment to be increased sixty men; in the beginning of 1793 it was augmented to nine troops, and was held in constant readiness to proceed on foreign service; a tenth troop was afterwards added. The French republicans, pursuing a career of cruelty, spoliation, and bloodshed, added to their multiplied enormities the decapitation of their king. Infatuated by success in their own land, they sought to subvert the liberties of other countries,--to destroy the civil order of Europe,--to spread a moral contamination of principle and practice which outraged the nature of mankind,--and to involve every country in atheism, despotism, and anarchy. They attacked Holland, when a British force was sent to the assistance of the Dutch, and the INNISKILLING dragoons marched from York in June, 1793,--embarked at Blackwall, and having landed at Ostend, went into quarters for a short time among the Flemish peasantry. From Ostend the SIXTH proceeded to the vicinity of Bruges, and were formed in brigade with the blues and royal dragoons. Meanwhile the successes of the allies had removed the theatre of the war from Holland, to the frontiers of French Flanders, and the INNISKILLING dragoons advanced up the country and joined the forces commanded by the Duke of York before _Valenciennes_, which fortress surrendered to His Royal Highness a few days after the regiment joined the army.