This conquest was regarded with great pride by the British nation; but the island was restored to France, at the peace of Fontainebleau in 1763, in exchange for Minorca, which had been taken by the French at the commencement of the war. During the remainder of the year 1761 the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment was stationed in South Britain. [Sidenote: 1762.] The THIRTY-SIXTH regiment during 1762 continued to be quartered in South Britain. In January war was declared against Spain, and in the summer of that year the regiment was encamped at Sandheath under Lieut.-General Edward Carr. Negociations for peace were shortly afterwards commenced, and the preliminary articles were signed at Fontainebleau by the Duke of Bedford on the 3d of November 1762. [Sidenote: 1763.] On the 10th of February 1763 the treaty of Fontainebleau was concluded at Paris, the ratifications were exchanged on the 10th of March, and peace was proclaimed in London on the 22d of that month. [Sidenote: 1764.] The THIRTY-SIXTH regiment embarked on the 17th of March 1764 for Jamaica, in which island it was stationed for some years. [Sidenote: 1765.] Major-General Richard Pierson was removed from the Sixty-third to the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment on the 11th of September 1765, in succession to Lieut.-General Lord Robert Manners, appointed to the Third dragoon guards. [Sidenote: 1773.] In 1773 the THIRTY-SIXTH returned home from Jamaica, and the regiment arrived in England in June of that year. [Sidenote: 1774.] On the 6th of August 1774, the light infantry companies of the Third, Eleventh, Twenty-first, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-second, THIRTY-SIXTH, and Seventieth regiments assembled at Salisbury, where they were formed into a brigade, and disciplined under the command of Major-General the Honourable Sir William Howe until the 4th of October following, when they were reviewed by His Majesty King George III. in Richmond Park, and were afterwards ordered to rejoin their respective regiments. [Sidenote: 1775.] The war with the American colonies commenced in April 1775, but the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment did not proceed to that country; on the 10th of September following it embarked at Portsmouth for Ireland, where it was stationed for the seven following years. [Sidenote: 1778.] Colonel the Honourable Henry St. John, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixty-seventh regiment, was appointed Colonel of the THIRTY-SIXTH on the 27th of November 1778, in succession to Lieut.-General Richard Pierson, removed to the Thirteenth dragoons. [Sidenote: 1782.] A letter, dated the 31st of August 1782, conveyed to the regiment His Majesty’s pleasure that county titles should be conferred on the infantry, and the THIRTY-SIXTH was directed to assume the designation of the HEREFORDSHIRE regiment, in order that a connexion between the corps and that county should be cultivated, which might be useful in promoting the success of the recruiting service.