Early in April, 1712, the THIRTY-FOURTH Regiment took the field, and joined the army under the command of the Duke of Ormond, who penetrated the French territory to the frontiers of Picardy, encamping at Cateau-Cambresis, while the Germans undertook the siege of _Quesnoy_. In the mean time the French monarch had solicited peace, and had agreed to deliver the city of Dunkirk into the hands of the British sovereign, as a pledge of his sincerity. A suspension of arms was proclaimed between the British and French, and the army under the Duke of Ormond withdrew to Ghent. On the 4th of August the regiment was detached from the camp near Ghent, with several other corps, under Lieutenant-General the Earl of Orkney, to Dunkirk, where it was stationed some time. On the 30th of November, 1712, Queen Anne conferred the colonelcy of the regiment on Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Chudleigh, from Brigadier-General Durell’s regiment, in succession to Brigadier-General Hamilton, who, on the death of Brigadier-General Durell, in December following, was nominated colonel of his corps,--the Sixteenth Foot. [Sidenote: 1713] At the conclusion of the peace of Utrecht, the regiment was withdrawn from Dunkirk, and proceeded to Great Britain. At this period a considerable reduction took place in the numbers of the regular army, and all the corps raised after the peace of Ryswick, in 1697, were directed to be taken off the establishment, except two, viz., the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Regiments of Foot. This reduction included the THIRTY-FOURTH Regiment, which was accordingly reduced, and the officers placed upon half-pay. [Sidenote: 1714] [Sidenote: 1715] The decease of Queen Anne, and the accession of King George I., on the 1st of August, 1714, was followed by a short period of tranquillity; but in 1715 the partisans of the Pretender made efforts to procure his accession to the throne, and commotions occurred in England; at the same time the nation was threatened with invasion from abroad. The King augmented the army, and warrants were issued for the restoration of the THIRTY-FOURTH and several other regiments of foot, in the summer of this year. Names of the officers appointed to the THIRTY-FOURTH Regiment, at its restoration in the summer of 1715:-- _Colonel_, THOMAS CHUDLEIGH. _Lieutenant-Colonel_, THOMAS WHITNEY. _Major_, CHARLES DOUGLAS. _Captains._ Robert Hayes[8] Samuel Daniels Richard Doige Michael Moore Francis Mutys Henry Skelton Richard Pyott _Lieutenants._ -- Saubergues Walter Yard Edward Cooksey -- Brereton William Hamilton John Tremaigne Thomas Batten Christopher Philips Timothy White William Hayes Thomas Ford _Ensigns._ Henry Sirck Roger Sterne John Sutton John Spaddy Thomas Kitson Thomas Parker Thomas Price John Brushfield William Wickham [Sidenote: 1716]