Stoppage of Pay

Following the siege of Havanna, the 27th Regiment disembarked at New York in October 1762 and in July 1763 was ordered to Canada. There they occupied quarters in the old French port of Three Rivers (Trois-Rivières). While there the Home Government ordered a compulsory stoppage of four pence a day for each soldier for provisions, which previously the state had provided. This caused considerable discontent among the troops and in some regiments led to acts of serious insubordination. The Inniskillings, however, behaved in an exemplary manner. They accepted the stoppages in a true soldierly spirit, which earned for them the appreciation of the Commander-in-Chief, General Gage, who wrote the following:

The Commander-in-Chief was extremely glad to learn that the Enniskillen Regiment, quartered at Three Rivers, behaved so like good soldiers upon the order for the stoppage of 4d. a day for Provisions. Their submission to that order was becoming of Soldiers, and their silence on that occasion was meritorious.