In this short but brilliant and decisive service, the regiment had Major Jeremiah O'Keefe, one drummer, and sixteen rank and file killed; Lieutenants Keappock and Ashe, three serjeants, and twenty-eight rank and file wounded; five men missing. The French Governor, General de Caen, seeing no prospect of being able to make effectual resistance, surrendered the island. This enterprise was thus successfully accomplished, and the conduct of the TWELFTH regiment was commended in orders, also in the public despatch of Major-General Abercromby. After the surrender of the Isle of France, the flank companies proceeded to Port Louis, and the battalion companies descended the Long Mountain, and embarked from Tortue bay, in the "Psyche" frigate, for Grand Port, where they were joined by the flank companies, after being separated eleven months. [Sidenote: 1811] General Picton died on the 14th of October, 1811, in his eighty-fourth year, and was succeeded in the Colonelcy of the TWELFTH foot, by Lieut.-General Sir Charles Hastings, Baronet, from the seventy-seventh regiment of foot. The regiment was stationed in the Isle of France during the years 1811 and 1812. [Sidenote: 1812] In the meantime the war with France was approaching to a crisis; Napoleon Bonaparte had attained the summit of power, and the efforts of Great Britain were commensurate with the importance of the contest; the army was augmented, and in the autumn of 1811 a _second battalion_ was added to the TWELFTH regiment of four hundred and fifty-one officers and soldiers, into which the recruiting companies of the regiment were incorporated. In the autumn of 1812, the second battalion proceeded to Ireland. [Sidenote: 1813] In April, 1813, the first battalion embarked from Port Louis, for the island of Bourbon, where it was stationed nearly two years. [Sidenote: 1814] [Sidenote: 1815] During this period the tyrannical power of Bonaparte had been overthrown, and the Bourbon dynasty restored to the throne of France. On the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the island of Bourbon was restored to the French monarchy, and in consequence of this arrangement the regiment embarked from St. Denis on the 3rd of April, 1815; the French soldiers, who arrived from Europe to take possession of the island, landing as the British went on board the ships prepared to receive them. The Mauritius, or Isle of France, was retained by the British government, and the TWELFTH foot having been selected to form part of the garrison of that valuable island, immediately proceeded thither.