For the last sixty-five years of its existence as a separate regiment, the 36th Foot was not involved in active conflict, for the most part performing garrison duties in the United Kingdom and the British Empire. It formed part of the army occupying France from July to December 1815 and then moved to Portsmouth on 22 December 1815. The regiment was sent to Malta in September 1817 and then on to the United States of the Ionian Islands in 1821, where they suffered from much sickness, before returning to England in 1826. The regiment was posted to Ireland in 1827 and then embarked for Barbados in 1831 although eleven men were killed in a hurricane on the way.