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*[[Recapture of Lucknow|Lucknow]] 1858
==Regimental history==
''Neill's "Blue Caps" : being the record of the antecedents and early history of the regiment variously known as the East India Company's European Regiment, the Madras European Regiment, the 1st Madras European Regiment, the 1st Madras European Fuziliers, the 1st Madras Fuziliers, the 102nd Royal Madras Fuziliers, and the 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers'' by Colonel H C Wylly 19241923.
<br> In three volumes: Vol. 1 1639-1826; Vol. 2 1826-1914; Vol. 3 1914-1922.
<br> Available at the [[British Library]] BLL01013175822 and also in reprint editions.<ref>''Neill’s ‘Blue Caps’'' [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/neills-blue-caps-vol-11639-1826/ Vol. 1]Now available online, [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/neills-blue-caps-vol-21826-1914/ Vol. 2], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/neills-blue-caps-vol-31914-1922-2/ Vol. 3] There is also a set of more expensive editions, possibly hardback. Naval & Military Presssee below.</ref> == External Links links ==
'''Wikipedia''':
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Madras_European_Fusiliers 1st Madras European Fusiliers]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=o4gfAAAAYAAJ ''A sketch of the services of the Madras European Regiment during the Burmese War''] by Major John Butler (1839) Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/a-sketch-of-the-services-of-the-madras-european-regiment-during-the-burmese-war/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xQ0ZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Historical+record+of+the+honourable+East+India+Company's+first+Madras+European+regiment:&hl=en&ei=J2_WTrn5ItKksgbc7IEi&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false''Historical Record of the Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment: Containing an Account of the Establishment of Independent Companies in 1645; Their Formation Into a Regiment in 1748; and Its Subsequent Services to 1842''] by [[James Neill|James George Smith Neill]], Staff Officer (1843). [http://books.google.com/books?id=MoUfAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PR16 Page xvi] of the introduction (at the very front of the book) mentions the recruitment in the early days of a few Swiss mercenaries, [[French]] prisoners of war (after their release), 400 Germans at the [[South Africa|Cape of Good Hope]] in 1795 and more Germans in the Eastern Islands [Amboyna] in 1810. Also see [[German]].
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.05639/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Regimental Records of the First Battalion the Royal Dublin Fusiliers: formerly the Madras Europeans, the Madras European Regiment, the First Madras Fusiliers, the 102nd Royal Madras Fusiliers 1644-1842''] 1910. Archive.org. An edited version of the previous book "presented in a clear and readable form".
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ybQnAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Royal+madras+Fusiliers&as_brr=3&ei=VrDQSa78E52UMefruesC#PPP1,M1 ''Services of 102nd Regiment of Foot 1842-1867''] by Colonel Thomas Raikes (1867) Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/vol1-bluecaps/Vol1BlueCaps/ ''Neill’s "Blue Caps" Volume 1 1639-1826 and Volume 2 1826-1914''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1923 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/vol3-bluecaps/page/n7/mode/2up ''Neill’s "Blue Caps" Volume 3 1914-1922''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1923 Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/withhavelockfro00groogoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''With Havelock from Allahabad to Lucknow, 1857''] by William Tate Groom 1894 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284894/2015.284894.The-British#page/n580/mode/1up "The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Battalion I: late 102nd Regiment of Foot"] page 559 ''The British Army : Its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices Etc'' by Major J H Lawrence-Archer 1888 Archive.org
==References==
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[[Category:Madras Infantry Regiments]]
