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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-06/0959853039 post] is about the Cholera epidemic in the Regiment in 1869 at Saugor, in Central India, with quotes from 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 below. .There is an edition published by Leonaur in 2010 as ''Gowing of the Royal Fusiliers: the Experiences of a Fusilier on Campaign During the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and the Umballah Campaign 1853-72'', available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/0857063383 FIBIS Shop]
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*'''1881''' became '''The Royal Fusiliers''' (City of London Regiment)
*'''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. This is described in 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. <ref> [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-06/0959853039 India List post by Jill Grey ] June 200 (retrieved June 2014) </ref>
== External Links ==
***[http://www.2day.ws/siteFiles/files/RRFLondon_policing_1131660151.pdf Indian Mutiny and Frontier Campaigns (1857-1880)]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214220218/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/007RFus.htm The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216143609/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/007-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216215907/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/007-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.
*[http://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/ North West Kent Family History Society]
*[http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org The Fusilier Museum, London]
==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
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