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*'''1968''' amalgamated with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers ([[5th Regiment of Foot]]), The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers ([[6th Regiment of Foot]]) and the Lancashire Fusiliers ([[20th Regiment of Foot]]) to form 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
:There was a cholera epidemic in the Regiment in 1869 at Saugor, in Central India. <ref> Grey, Jill [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-06/0959853039 Cholera at Saugor, 1869] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List post by Jill Grey ] '' 1 June 200 2000 (retrieved June 2014) </ref>The referenced description refers to the book ''A Soldier’s Experience: ... showing the price of war in blood and treasure'' ... By one of the Royal Fusiliers,Timothy Gowing. This book is available online, refer Historical Books below.
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==Historical books online==
*[http://archive.org/stream/asoldiersexperi00gowigoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''A Soldier's Experience: Or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan Campaigns of 1863]'' by one of the Royal Fusiliers (Timothy Gowing) 1892 Archive,org. Indian section commences [http://archive.org/stream/asoldiersexperi00gowigoog#page/n302/mode/2up page 251] including [http://archive.org/stream/asoldiersexperi00gowigoog#page/n372/mode/2up "The Umballah Campaign of 1863"], page 315 and [http://archive.org/stream/asoldiersexperi00gowigoog#page/n396/mode/2up "Letters from India"], page 339
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015009020481?urlappend=%3Bseq=21 ''Historical Records of the 7th or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers now known as the Royal Fusiliers (the City of London Regiment) 1685-1903. Compiled from histories of the Royal Fusiliers by the late Mr. Cannon...and the late Colonel G.H. Waller...and from ms. records and journals supplied by the Officers of the Regiment…''] by John Percy Groves 1903 Hathi Trust Digital Library
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