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*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=136&s_id=134 General Orders by the Commander-in-Chief] - transcriptions of 521 Court Martial proceedings in Madras (from L/MIL/17/3) that took place in the 1820s, 30s and 40s. | *[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=136&s_id=134 General Orders by the Commander-in-Chief] - transcriptions of 521 Court Martial proceedings in Madras (from L/MIL/17/3) that took place in the 1820s, 30s and 40s. | ||
*''[[FIBIS Journal]]'' 10, Autumn 2003 "Courts Martial in John Company's India and their help to the Genealogist". | *''[[FIBIS Journal]]'' 10, Autumn 2003 "Courts Martial in John Company's India and their help to the Genealogist". | ||
==See also== | |||
*[[Apothecaries]] | |||
*[[12th Regiment of Foot]] and [[34th Regiment of Foot]] for examples of death as a result of a duel between fellow officers, which resulted in a court martial. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 06:31, 11 September 2010
Records
For Bengal, you can probably obtain a summary of the Court Martial proceedings in the General Orders by C-in-C Bengal in the L/MIL/17/2 series at the British Library, and similarly for the other Presidencies. (Unfortunately, these have not been microfilmed)
FIBIS resources
- General Orders by the Commander-in-Chief - transcriptions of 521 Court Martial proceedings in Madras (from L/MIL/17/3) that took place in the 1820s, 30s and 40s.
- FIBIS Journal 10, Autumn 2003 "Courts Martial in John Company's India and their help to the Genealogist".
See also
- Apothecaries
- 12th Regiment of Foot and 34th Regiment of Foot for examples of death as a result of a duel between fellow officers, which resulted in a court martial.
External links
- History of the British Courts Martial
- Court Martial Wikipedia, including info on the British and Indian armies.
Historical books online
- A collection of the charges, opinions, and sentences of general courts martial: as published by authority; from the year 1795 to the present time; intended to serve as an appendix to Tytler's Treatise on military law, and forming a book of cases and references; with a copious index by Charles James 1820. A search using the words Bengal, Madras, Bombay shows courts martial in India (The index was not accessible)
- The practice of courts-martial, also the legal exposition and military explanation of the Mutiny act, and articles of war by William Hough (1825), Google Books, Table of Contents, Index