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*Question of the pensions and allowances to be granted to the officers of the Swiss [[De Meuron Regiment|Regiment De Meuron]] (includes lists of officers of the regiment and a copy of the Capitulation of 25 September 1798) [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-f4_1&cid=1-1-78-5#1-1-78-5 '''IOR/F/4/78/1728'''] Sep 1798-Apr 1800
*Six months' advance of pay is made to Captain N.J. De Bergeon and Captain Francois Louis Lenn, two officers of the [[De Meuron Regiment|Regiment De Meuron]] who remained behind in India when the regiment left for Europe. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-f4_3&cid=1-1-51-4#1-1-51-4 '''IOR/F/4/234/5396'''] Jul-Oct 1806
*British Army in India: Nominal and Casualty Rolls of Jager Corps Volunteers [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-1&cid=1-3-12#1-3-12 '''IOR/L/MIL/15/31-36'''] 1860-1866
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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-12/1261348709 thread] mentions the Swiss mercenary [[De Meuron Regiment|regiment of De Meuron]] largely manned by Germans, who were working for the Dutch but who switched sides when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope in 1795
*The Wurttemberg Regiment’s German name was the Württembergisches Kapregiment or Cape Regiment [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapregiment Kapregiment] Wikipedia written in German and associated [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W%C3%BCrttembergisches_Kapregiment Wikimedia].This Rootsweb List [http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BADEN-WURTTEMBERG/2001-11/1005137681 post] says: Wuerttemberg Kapregiment (the regiment of the Cape of Good Hope) from 1786 to 1808. Duke Carl Eugen of Wuerttemberg formed a regiment of soldiers and sold it to the Dutch to fight as their mercenaries at the Cape. Of the 3,200 men only about 100 men returned home!. This [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Kapregiment.png&filetimestamp=2008081512052 Wikipedia map] showing where the Regiment was based, includes Madras.
*In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by 500 men of the Jaeger Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny according to this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-03/1078511503 thread]. See India Office Records at the British Library, above.
*This India list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218693873 thread] is about Germans in [[Dutch|Dutch East India Company]] regiments in India or the East Indies and advises they were often taken over by the EIC
*The following reference to Germans in the [[Dutch|Dutch East Indies]] is quoted in [http://www.igv.nl/jir/broneng.html Janssen’s Indisch Repertorium]: ''Die Deutschen in Niederländisch Indien'', door Mr. P.C. Bloys van Treslong Prins, Vortrag gehalten in der Ortsgruppe Batavia am 30. Sept. 1935, Tokyo/Leipzig 1937 (Mitteilungen der deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Band XXIX, Teil D).
