 They transferred to the third-rate HMS "Agamemnon" and served under Lord Nelson at the Battle of Genoa in March 1795, and then, after Nelson's transfer into the third-rate "Captain" in June 1796, with him at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in February 1797.At Cape St Vincent, Matthew Stevens, a soldier from the regiment, was the first to board the Spanish ship .The main part of the regiment returned to the West Indies in 1796 to take part in a British invasion of Saint-Domingue, where almost half of them caught yellow fever.