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From Winchester, the first place of assembly (June 4, 1760) we were removed at our own request for the benefit of a foreign education. By the arbitrary and often capricious orders of the War Office, the battalion successively marched to the pleasant and hospitable Blandford (June 17); to Hilsea barracks a seat of disease and discord (September 1); to Cranbrook in the weald of Kent (December 11); to the seacoast of Dover (December 27); to Winchester camp (June 25, 1761); to the populous and disorderly town of Devizes (October 23); to Salisbury (February 28, 1762); to our beloved Blandford a second time (March 9); and finally to the fashionable resort of Southampton (June 2); where the colours were fixed till our final dissolution (December 23).
— ed. Low, D. M. (1929) Gibbon’s1 Journal to January 28th, 1763. W. W. Norton and Co, New York. source