recruits for the regulars. For lack of suitable senior officers, Richmond and Pelham had to stay on, despite their heavy ministerial duties and the duke's increasing age. Expedition to Bordeaux From November 1813 the militia were invited to volunteer for limited overseas service, primarily for garrison duties in Europe. Three officers and 100 other ranks of the Sussex Militia volunteered for this service, and were posted to the 2nd Provisional Battalion, alongside the Royal West Middlesex Militia whose CO, Lt-Col Bayly, commanded the battalion. The 2nd Provisional Bn assembled at Chelmsford and marched to Portsmouth where the Militia Brigade was assembling under the command of the Marquess of Buckingham, colonel of the Royal Buckinghamshire Militia and the 1st Provisional Bn. The 2nd Bn arrived on 5 March 1814 and the brigade embarked on 10–11 March. It joined the Earl of Dalhousie's division that had occupied Bordeaux just as the war was ending. The brigade did not form part of the Army of Occupation after the abdication of Napoleon and returned to England in June. Long Peace The Sussex Militia remained embodied during the short Waterloo Campaign of 1815 and were not disembodied until January 1816. After Waterloo there was another long peace. Although officers continued to be commissioned into the militia and ballots were still held, the regiments were rarely assembled for training and the permanent staffs of sergeants and drummers were progressively reduced. From 4 December 1819 Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond was colonel of the Sussex Militia and during his colonelcy the regiment was redesignated as the Sussex Light Infantry Militia in 1835 and as the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia (RSLIM) in 1846. 1852 Reforms The Militia of the United Kingdom was revived by the Militia Act of 1852, enacted during a renewed period of international tension. As before, units were raised and administered on a county basis, and filled by voluntary enlistment (although conscription by means of the Militia Ballot might be used if the counties failed to meet their quotas). Training was for 56 days on enlistment, then for 21–28 days per year, during which the men received full army pay. Under the Act, Militia units could be embodied by Royal Proclamation for full-time home defence service in three circumstances: 1. 'Whenever a state of war exists between Her Majesty and any foreign power'. 2. 'In all cases of invasion or upon imminent danger