This success was followed by the preparation of another expedition of a similar character, in which the THIRTY-FOURTH Regiment was also employed; and on the 6th of August a landing was effected in the Bay des Marées, in the face of a body of French troops. On the following day _Cherbourg_ was taken possession of, with the harbour, forts, magazines, and about two hundred pieces of ordnance; the iron guns were destroyed, and twenty-two fine brass cannon and two brass mortars, were sent to England as trophies. These guns were seen by King George II., in Hyde Park, and afterwards conducted by a cavalcade to the Tower. After remaining in France ten days, the troops returned on board the fleet, and a second descent was made on the coast of Brittany on the 4th of September, when the batteries in the Bay of St. Lunaire were destroyed, and the troops afterwards penetrated the country a considerable distance; but no advantage resulted from this enterprise, and when the troops re-embarked at _St. Cas_, the enemy attacked the rear guard with superior numbers, and occasioned severe loss. The THIRTY-FOURTH Foot returned to England, and landed at Portsmouth towards the end of September. [Sidenote: 1759] [Sidenote: 1760] In the summer of 1759, the THIRTY-FOURTH were encamped at Sandheath, with the Fifth, Eighth, and Thirty-third Regiments, under the Earl of Ancram; and in the summer of 1760, they pitched their tents at Winchester, where five battalions of militia were encamped with them, the whole under the colonel of the THIRTY-FOURTH,--Thomas Earl of Effingham. On the 30th of October, King George III. nominated the Earl of Effingham to the command of the first troop of Horse Grenadier Guards, (which was incorporated in the First Regiment of Life Guards in 1788,) and his Majesty conferred the colonelcy of the THIRTY-FOURTH on Lord Frederick Cavendish, from the Sixty-seventh Regiment[11]. [Sidenote: 1761] During the summer of 1761, the regiment was encamped, with the Seventy-second Foot, at Sandheath, under Lieutenant-General Cornwallis. [Sidenote: 1762]