Rukunin ya sake komawa Afirka ta Kudu a watan Yunin 1828 kuma ya ga aikin a cikin Yaƙin Xhosa na shida
a 1834<unk>1835 kafin ya koma gida a watan Mayu 1840. A watan Agustan 1842 ya taimaka wajen kawar da Preston Strike sannan aka tura shi zuwa Gibraltar a watan Nuwamba 1844 kafin ya tashi zuwa Barbados a watan Fabrairun 1848. Rundunar ta tafi Halifax, Nova Scotia, a watan Yulin 1851 kuma ta dawo gida a watan Oktoba 1854. A shekara mai zuwa, rundunar ta fara zuwa Malta, sannan ta yi aiki a cikin Yakin Crimean, ta isa a watan Mayu 1855, tana aiki a kewaye da Sevastopol a matsayin wani ɓangare na Colin Campbell's Highland Brigade. Sun dawo gida a shekara ta 1856, kuma a watan Agusta 1857 suka koma Indiya don taimakawa wajen murkushe tawayen Indiya, suna aiki a cikin yaƙin Indiya ta Tsakiya na 1858. Ya kasance a Indiya har zuwa 1866, lokacin da ya koma gida. Ya sake komawa Indiya a 1871. Rundunar ta taka muhimmiyar rawa a Yaƙin Afghanistan na Biyu na 1878-80, ganin aiki a yakin Peiwar Kotal a watan Nuwamba na 1878, yakin Charasiah a watan Oktoba na 1879 da kuma kewaye da sansanin Sherpur kusa da Kabul a watan Disamba na 1879. Daga nan sun kasance wani ɓangare na janar Robert wanda ya yi tafiya daga Kabul zuwa Kandahar kafin ya shiga cikin yakin Kandahar a watan Satumbar 1880.