A landing was effected on the 22nd of April at a rugged spot near Point Lomaria, where the difficult ascent had occasioned the enemy to be less attentive to that part of the coast; and the troops, under Brigadier-General Lambert, having landed, gained the summit of the rock, and repulsed the attempts of the enemy to dislodge them,--capturing three brass field-pieces. The cannon was afterwards landed from the ships, and dragged up the rocks; the lines which covered the town of Palais were captured, and the siege of the citadel commenced. The ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS took part in the siege of the _Citadel_ of _Belle-Isle_, which was prosecuted with so much vigour, that the governor, the Chevalier de St. Croix, was forced to surrender on the 7th of June. The capture of the island was thus effected, with the loss of about eighteen hundred men killed and wounded. [Sidenote: 1762] [Sidenote: 1763] [Sidenote: 1764] After the surrender of the Castle of Belle-Isle, the regiment returned to England, where it was stationed in 1762; and in 1763 and 1764 it occupied quarters in Scotland. [Sidenote: 1765] [Sidenote: 1770] On the 6th of May, 1765, the regiment embarked for America, and was quartered five years in West Florida; in 1770, it was removed to Canada, and was stationed some time at Quebec. In November, 1770, Lieut.-General the Earl of Panmure was removed to the Scots Greys, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS by Major-General the Honorable Alexander Mackay, from the Sixty-fifth regiment. [Sidenote: 1772] [Sidenote: 1773] [Sidenote: 1774] Having been relieved from duty at Quebec, in 1772, the regiment embarked for England, where it was stationed in 1773 and the two following years. [Sidenote: 1775] The American war commenced in 1775, and during the winter of that year Quebec was besieged by an American force. [Sidenote: 1776] In the spring of 1776, the regiment embarked for the relief of _Quebec_; on the arrival of the British reinforcement to the garrison, the Americans raised the siege, and made a precipitate retreat; they were pursued up the country, and driven from all the posts which they occupied in that province. After these services were performed, the ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS were quartered at St. John's, where they were stationed during the winter. [Sidenote: 1777]