The capture of New Orleans appearing to be impracticable, the troops returned on board of the fleet. Fort Bowyer was afterwards captured, but hostilities were terminated by a treaty of peace, and the regiment returned to the West Indies, from whence Major Pringle sailed for England, on leave of absence, and the command devolved on Major Quin. After a short stay at Bermuda, the regiment sailed for Europe; it arrived at Portsmouth in May, and afterwards sailed to Cork, where it landed in June. In the spring of this year Bonaparte had returned to France and gained temporary possession of that kingdom: but his numerous veteran legions were overpowered by British valour at Waterloo on the 18th of June. The British army had, however, sustained severe loss, and the first battalion was selected to proceed to the Continent. It embarked from Monkstown on the 5th of July, landed at Ostend on the 17th, and proceeding up the country under Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell, joined the army, commanded by Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, at Paris. [Sidenote: 1816] Having been appointed to remain on the Continent, and to form part of the Army of Occupation in France, the regiment marched to Compiègne, and occupied several villages in the neighbourhood of that place, where it was joined, on the 9th of January, 1816, by a detachment from the second battalion. On the 13th of January, 1816, the second battalion was disbanded at Stirling; transferring the men fit for duty to the first battalion. Towards the end of January, the regiment was removed to Valenciennes, and in October was reviewed, with the Army of Occupation, by Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington. On the death of General the Honorable William Gordon, Lieut.-General James Lord Forbes was appointed Colonel of the regiment, from the Fifty-fourth foot, by commission dated the 1st of June, 1816. [Sidenote: 1817] A considerable reduction being made in the British contingent of the Army of Occupation, the regiment proceeded to Calais, where it embarked for England, and landed at Harwich on the 2nd of April, 1817. [Sidenote: 1818] In May, 1818, the regiment marched to Portsmouth. In June, the officers were authorised to wear a long coat, of a pattern approved of by His Royal Highness the Duke of York. [Sidenote: 1819]