![]() ![]() ![]() Arriving on the island in September 1795 in an already weakened state, the 80th Foot had lost half of its strength by the time it was forced to return to Britain in January 1796.Following the French conquest of the Netherlands the Batavian Republic had been established in 1795, taking over the various Dutch colonial possessions, and declaring war on Great Britain. They remained there until 1795, and were evacuated at the end of a disastrous campaign which ended in a decisive French victory.They remained in England for only a short time as they formed part of a force formed to assist in the landing of French Royalist troops on the Île d'Yeu off the Vendée coat of France. Within three months of raising the 80th Foot were stationed in Guernsey from where they sailed to Flanders.
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