After the decease of Lieut.-General Sir R. Murray Keith, Major-General the Honorable Henry Edward Fox, was appointed colonel of the TENTH foot, from the 131st regiment, by commission dated the 23rd of June, 1795. [Sidenote: 1796] The establishment was completed by drafts from other corps, and, in three months from the date of its arrival from Jamaica, the regiment was ordered to furnish seven companies to take part in completing the deliverance of the French West India Islands from the power of the republicans. The force designed for this service, under Major-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, sailed from Spithead in December, and the departure of the fleet, accompanied by a division of the royal navy under Admiral Christian, presented a most splendid spectacle; but this armament was overtaken by a storm, the fleet was dispersed, many vessels were wrecked, and others returned to Spithead. The ship containing the grenadier company of the TENTH, and several other corps, withstood the storm; but it had not been long at sea before the yellow fever broke out on board, when it returned to England, and the soldiers went into hospital at Plymouth, from whence the grenadiers of the TENTH marched to Chatham, where the regiment was assembled in 1796. [Sidenote: 1797] From Chatham the regiment embarked on an expedition to the Continent, but was ordered to land at Lymington, from whence it proceeded to the Isle of Wight, and was stationed on that island and at Portsmouth until the winter of 1798. [Sidenote: 1798] The TENTH, having been appointed to transfer their services from Europe to the British possessions in Hindoostan, embarked from Portsmouth during the winter, and arriving in the south of India, landed at the celebrated city and fortress of Madras, the capital of the British possessions in that quarter of the globe, on the 13th of April, 1799. [Sidenote: 1799] At Madras the regiment remained nearly four months, and on the 6th of August, it embarked for the rich and extensive province of Bengal, where it arrived on the 26th of the same month. [Sidenote: 1800] For fifteen months the TENTH were stationed in the Presidency of Bengal, in a country abounding in all that is essential to the comfort and even the luxury of man, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Richard Quarrell, and in November, 1800, they were sent down the river Ganges to be embarked for Egypt, which country was overrun by an army of French veterans, vauntingly designated the "Army of the East," and commanded by the celebrated General Buonaparte. [Sidenote: 1801]