[Sidenote: 1748] In the meantime, the war on the Continent had been continued, and in the beginning of the year 1748, the regiment embarked at Shields for Holland, to join the allied army in that country. In the spring, the regiment took the field, and was engaged in several services: hostilities were afterwards terminated by a treaty of peace concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle, and during the winter the TWELFTH foot returned to England. [Sidenote: 1749] Immediately after its arrival from Holland, the regiment embarked for the island of Minorca, where it was stationed three years. [Sidenote: 1751] On the 1st of July, 1751, a royal warrant was issued regulating the standards, colours, and clothing of the several regiments. At this period the costume of the TWELFTH foot was--cocked hats, bound with white lace, _scarlet_ coats faced and lined with _yellow_, and ornamented with white lace; scarlet waistcoats and breeches, and white gaiters. The first, or Kings colour, was the great union; the second, or regimental colour, was of yellow silk, in the centre XII. in gold characters, within a wreath of roses and thistles on the same stalk, and the union in the upper canton. [Illustration: MONTIS INSIGNIA CALPE. TWELFTH REGIMENT OF FOOT.] [Sidenote: 1752] Towards the end of the year 1751 the TWELFTH were relieved from duty at Minorca by the fifty-first regiment, and returned to England, where they arrived in the beginning of 1752. [Sidenote: 1755] [Sidenote: 1756] [Sidenote: 1757] The progress of colonization in North America involved Great Britain in disputes with the French government respecting the country near the river Ohio, which occasioned the commencement of the Seven Years' War, in 1756. The establishment of the TWELFTH regiment was augmented on this occasion; and in 1757 it consisted of two battalions. General Skelton died on the 9th of April, 1757, and King George II. conferred the colonelcy of the TWELFTH foot on Major-General Robert Napier, from the fifty-first regiment. [Sidenote: 1758] In 1758 the second battalion of the TWELFTH foot was constituted the sixty-fifth regiment, under the command of Colonel Armiger, from captain and lieut.-colonel of the first foot guards.[9] Meanwhile the war, which commenced in America, had extended to Hanover, and the electorate was overrun by the armies of France. A body of Hanoverian, Hessian, and Brunswick troops, commanded by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, opposed the forces of the enemy, and in the summer of 1758, the TWELFTH regiment, after encamping a short time in the Isle of Wight, was ordered to proceed to Germany to join the allied army. The regiment arrived at Embden on the 1st of August, landed a few miles above the town on the 3rd, and on the 5th commenced its march to join the army, which it accomplished in twelve days, and was reviewed on the 20th of that month by Prince Ferdinand.