On the 6th of September 1782, the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment was brought from Ireland, and placed on the British establishment, and occupied Hilsea barracks, near Portsmouth. The contest with the American colonists had involved Great Britain in war with France, Spain, and Holland; but on the 30th of November 1782, the preliminary articles of peace were signed at Paris between Great Britain and the United States of America, and the treaty was concluded in the ensuing February. [Sidenote: 1783.] In the year 1783, peace was concluded between England, France, Spain, and Holland. A new field of service was about to open for the THIRTY-SIXTH, that regiment having been selected to proceed to the East Indies, for which country it embarked at Portsmouth on the 10th of March 1783, and arrived at Madras in July following, while the British were engaged in hostilities against the powerful Sultan of the Mysore, Tippoo Saib, who, on the death of his father, Hyder Ali, in December of the preceding year, had succeeded to the dominions of that soldier of fortune. The regiment, being thirteen hundred strong, was immediately transferred from the Indiamen into King’s ships, and proceeded, under the command of Brevet-Colonel Allan Campbell, to the relief of _Mangalore_, on the Malabar coast, which had been invested by Tippoo Saib on the 18th of May 1783, and was gallantly defended by the second battalion of the Forty-second regiment (afterwards numbered the Seventy-third regiment) and some native corps. Meanwhile the general peace, which had been entered into with the European Powers, deprived Tippoo of his French allies, and the Sultan entered into negotiations for terminating the war between Mysore and the British. The troops under Brigadier-General Macleod appeared in sight of Mangalore on the 24th of November 1783, but on the 1st of December, in consequence of the following circumstances, the ships sailed to the southward. Some boats with Sepoys having at this period been wrecked near _Cannanore_, upon the Malabar coast, about two hundred of them were seized and detained by Ali Rajah Biby, the Queen of that country; repeated applications were made for their release, but without success, and Brigadier-General Norman Macleod determined to take satisfaction for these injuries, immediately after the relief of Mangalore. Tippoo Saib desired him to desist, and claimed the ruler of the Cannanore country as his ally. The THIRTY-SIXTH regiment proceeded under the command of Major the Honourable John Knox to _Cannanore_, which was captured by the troops under Brigadier-General Macleod in December 1783. [Sidenote: 1784.] On the 11th of March 1784 peace was concluded with Tippoo Saib, the Sultan of Mysore; one of the articles of the treaty stipulated, that the fort and district of _Cannanore_ should be evacuated and restored to Ali Rajah Biby, the Queen of that country. [Sidenote: 1785 to 1788.]