After reposing a short period in cantonments, the regiment again took the field towards the end of the year 1818; and, in the early part of 1819, it marched into the province of Candeish. In the same year a detachment of eighty-six officers and soldiers,--convalescents left at Kaira on the march of the regiment into Candeish,--joined the force assembled in the province of Cutch, under Major-General Sir William Grant Keir. The extirpation of the _Pindarees_, a community of robbers associated for the undisguised object of subsisting by plunder, and amounting to from twenty-five to thirty thousand horsemen, was become an imperative duty to the British subjects in India. At the same time several native princes considered that the preservation of the Pindarees might be of advantage to themselves in the event of a war with the British. The operations of the armies which took the field, therefore, embraced several objects, which were acomplished to the honour of the British arms. After the surrender of Nagpore, the capital of the Mahratta territories, the SEVENTEENTH returned to their cantonments in the fruitful province of Guzerat.
In the month of May, 1820, the regiment marched once more to the hilly country of Cutch, and formed part of the force assembled in that province, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel the Honourable Lincoln Stanhope, and encamped at Keyrah, about half-way between the city of Booge-booge and Mandivie, the principal seaport in Cutch. This force consisted of between five and six thousand men; but the difference between the British authorities and the native chiefs, against whom it was designed to act, having been settled without an appeal to arms, the camp broke up in November, when the troops returned to their cantonments, excepting a detachment, which crossed the gulf of Cutch and captured, after an obstinate and desperate resistance, the strong pirate fort of _Dwarka_, where Lieutenant William Henry Marriott was mortally wounded. This distinguished officer was aide-de-camp to the Honourable the Governor in Council, and brigade-major to Lieut.-Colonel the Honourable Lincoln Stanhope; he was possessed of every quality that could make a young soldier the object of interest and of hope; he was admired, respected, and beloved in life, and he met with a death of glory without fear and without reproach.