destroying, the British works and batteries; on which occasion the following order was issued:-- "_Camp before Fort Erie, 18th September, 1814._ "DISTRICT GENERAL ORDER.--Lieut.-General Drummond, having received the report of the general officer in the immediate direction of the troops engaged yesterday, begs to offer his best acknowledgments for their very gallant conduct in repulsing the attack made by the enemy on our batteries with his whole force, represented as consisting of not less than five thousand men, including the militia. "The brilliant style in which the battery No. 2 was recovered, and the enemy driven beyond our entrenchments by seven companies of the Eighty-second, under the command of Major Proctor, and three companies of the SIXTH regiment, detached under Major Taylor, excited Lieut.-General Drummond's admiration, and entitle those troops to his particular thanks." Thus the SIXTH were triumphant in the interior of France and on the frontiers of Canada in the same year, and their gallantry on the last occasion procured for them the royal permission to bear the word "NIAGARA" inscribed on their colours. This honour was, however, purchased with the loss of many lives: Captain Pattison was numbered among the slain; Captain Smith and Lieutenant Andrews were wounded, and the last-mentioned officer died of his wounds. A treaty of peace having been concluded with the Americans, hostilities ceased, and the SIXTH reposed a short period in quarters. [Sidenote: 1815] In the summer of 1815, the return of Buonaparte to France having rekindled the flame of war in Europe, the SIXTH were directed to embark from America, in order to engage once more in actual warfare. They left Canada in the beginning of July, landed at Ostend on the 10th of August, and proceeded to Ghent, from whence they continued their march to Paris, and joined the army commanded by Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, encamped near that city. The SIXTH, sixteenth, fifty-eighth, and eighty-second regiments formed the fifteenth brigade, and were posted in the seventh division, commanded by Major-General Thomas Brisbane. When the definitive treaties between France and the allied powers were settled, the SIXTH were selected to form part of the army of occupation in France, and constituted, with the twenty-ninth and seventy-first regiments, the sixth brigade of infantry, under Major-General Sir Thomas Bradford, in the second division, commanded by Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton. The SIXTH were quartered at Versailles, from whence they marched, in December, to Ecouen, a village on the road from Paris to Luzarches. On the 24th of December, 1815, the second battalion was disbanded at Winchester. [Sidenote: 1816]