Between the 2-12 February 1846, the 87th Regiment had provided a detachment for duty in Inverness where there had been a riot to protest about the exportation of potatoes. When the detachment departed, the provost and magistrate thanked Captain Campbell and his men:

‘for prompt and efficient assistance afforded by them to the Civil Police here, in the supervision of the disgraceful tumults, which have taken place in this town, and they beg more particularly to record their deep sense of the forbearance of the men under circumstances of the greatest provocation, from the violence with which they were assailed by the misguided Mob’.

Following the riots, the 87th Regiment returned to its barracks at Fort George near Inverness, Scotland.