 Within three months of raising the 80th Foot were stationed in Guernsey from where they sailed to Flanders.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 coast of France.