---- Re-embarked for Alicant -- ---- Investment and capture of Tarragona -- ---- Lieut.-General Lord William Bentinck's services required in Sicily; and Lieut.-General Wm. Clinton succeeded to the command of the army 40 ---- Marched into quarters at Valls, and thence to Vendrills -- 1814 The French troops under Marshal Suchet withdrew from Catalonia -- ---- The battalion marched to Barcelona, and formed part of the force for the investment of that place -- ---- Hostilities ceased -- ---- Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated the throne of France -- ---- Louis XVIII. entered Paris, and ascended the throne 41 ---- Order expressing the approbation of Field-Marshal the Marquis of Wellington, of the conduct of the division of the army employed in the East of Spain -- 1814 The battalion proceeded from Barcelona to Tarragona, and embarked for Gibraltar 41 1815 Return of Napoleon Bonaparte from the Island of Elba to France -- ---- War recommenced -- ---- Victory at Waterloo -- ---- Surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte, and his conveyance to St. Helena -- ---- The regiment received the Royal Authority to bear the word _Peninsula_ on the colours and appointments 42 1817 The battalion embarked from Gibraltar for England -- ---- Arrived at Chatham, and marched to Canterbury, where it was disbanded on the 25th of May, 1817 -- Conclusion 43 SUCCESSION OF COLONELS OF THE SIXTY-SEVENTH, OR THE SOUTH HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. YEAR PAGE 1758 James Wolfe 45 1759 Lord Frederick Cavendish 48 1760 Sir Henry Erskine, Bart. -- 1761 Hamilton Lambert 49 1774 Edward Maxwell Brown -- 1803 Francis D'Oyly 50 1803 Peter Craig 51 1811 Sir William Keppel, G.C.B. -- 1828 Sir John Macdonald, G.C.B. 52 1844 John Clitherow -- PLATES. Costume of the regiment _to face page_ 1