In the autumn of the following year, the regiment was relieved from garrison duty at Gibraltar, and it landed on the 1st of January, 1806, at Portsmouth, from whence it proceeded to Winchester and Weymouth. The court of Spain had again united with Napoleon Buonaparte in hostilities against Great Britain, and in August the regiment returned to Portsmouth for the purpose of forming part of an expedition against the Spanish possessions in South America; but the order for the embarkation of the regiment was countermanded, and it marched to Dover, and afterwards to Deal barracks. [Sidenote: 1807] The regiment left Deal on the 4th of May, 1807, for Ramsgate, where it embarked for Ireland; and landing at Monkstown on the 23rd of May, marched from thence to Middleton barracks and afterwards to Cahir. In the autumn, the regiment was completed to its establishment by volunteers from the militia, and embarking at Monkstown for England, landed at Portsmouth on the 2nd of December. [Sidenote: 1808] On the 26th of January, 1808, the regiment embarked for the West Indies, and on its arrival it was appointed to the garrison of Bermuda, where it landed on the 26th of March. The West India islands belonging to France, which had been restored to that country at the peace of Amiens in 1802, had not been recaptured at the re-commencement of hostilities in 1803; but in 1808 an expedition was assembled at Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, for the reduction of the French island of _Martinique_; the land forces were under Lieut.-General George Beckwith, and the navy was commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, K.B. The THIRTEENTH foot embarked from Bermuda on the 23rd of November to join the expedition, and remained at Barbadoes until the armament was ready for the enterprise. [Sidenote: 1809]