The commander in chief and his aide-de-camp. in their place at the camp on the Royal Canadian Legion Grounds, Shelburne."
The impetuosity of youth seems to have made Lt.-Col. BAYARD a troubled commander resulting, in part, in a regiment greatly lacking in discipline. Consequently, BAYARD's Regiment was sent to Nova Scotia in November 1778 to help fill the void created when the battalion of marines was returned to duties in the fleet.
The regiment remained in Nova Scotia for the duration providing garrison duty in Halifax and various companies and detachments providing a level of protection to remote settlements such as Liverpool and Lunenburg. According to Sabine, one detachment of the King's Orange Rangers served gallantly under Lord RAWDON in the hard fighting of the Carolinas.
The regiment was disbanded at the end of the war and granted lands at Quaco (now St. Martins), New Brunswick."
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