The regiment was employed in operations against the Charibbees of St. Vincent; several skirmishes occurred among the thickly-wooded parts of the country, and a few men were killed and wounded in the bush-fighting which took place daily. At length the natives were reduced to submission, and an agreement was concluded with their chiefs in February, 1774, by which further hostilities were prevented. Having reduced the two refractory tribes to submission, the SIXTH and forty-eighth regiments were stationed at the Charibbee islands until after the breaking out of the war of independence in North America. [Sidenote: 1775] [Sidenote: 1776] [Sidenote: 1777] Hostilities commenced in 1775, when the establishment of the SIXTH was augmented from ten companies of thirty-eight private men each, to twelve companies of fifty-six private men each. In the following year they were withdrawn from the West Indies, and joined the army commanded by Lieut.-General Sir William Howe at New York. The health of the soldiers had, however, been impaired by their residence in a tropical climate, and after transferring a few men to other corps, they returned to England, where they arrived in March, 1777. [Sidenote: 1778] [Sidenote: 1779] [Sidenote: 1780] During the summer of 1778, the regiment was encamped, with the twenty-fifth, sixty-ninth, seventy-ninth, and ten militia corps, at Warley, under the orders of Lieut.-General Pierson. In the following year the regiment was encamped at Coxheath, with the fourteenth, fiftieth, sixty-fifth, sixty-ninth, and sixteen corps of militia; and in 1780 it was encamped at Rye, under Major-General Sloper. [Sidenote: 1782] In 1782 county titles were given to regiments, in order to facilitate the procuring of recruits; and the SIXTH were designated the FIRST WARWICKSHIRE regiment: at the same time the officers were directed to cultivate a connection with that division of the county, so as to create a mutual attachment between the inhabitants of Warwickshire and the regiment. [Sidenote: 1783] The SIXTH had previously proceeded to the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, from whence they were removed to Ireland in the autumn of 1783. [Sidenote: 1786] On the 5th of May, 1786, the regiment embarked from Ireland for North America, to relieve the seventeenth at Nova Scotia, and was stationed in that island for several years. [Sidenote: 1787] [Sidenote: 1792] General Sir William Boothby, Baronet, died at Bath on the 15th of April, 1787, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the SIXTH by Lieut.-General LANCELOT BAUGH, from the fifty-eighth regiment; after whose decease in 1792, Sir RALPH ABERCROMBY was appointed colonel of the SIXTH, from the sixty-ninth regiment. [Sidenote: 1793]