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===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Gt0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot''] by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BIpeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The journal of Samuel Plummer, a private in the 22d. Regiment of Foot, containing an account of his voyage by sea, and his journies on land, embracing a period of twenty years, the principal part of which time was spent in the East Indies''] corrected and abridged, with notes , edited by Rev. John Riles. 1821 Google Books. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024436454.0x000001 British Library itemVIEWERDigital], with rotatable pages. The author arrived in India in 1803, and took part in a campaign against the 'Black Prince' from August 1803. *[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor00shiprich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Memoirs of the extraordinary military career of John Shipp, late a lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment''] written by himself. A new illustrated edition with an Introduction by H Manners Chichester 1890 Archive.org. Originally published 1829 in 3 volumes [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor01shipiala/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 1] [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor02shipiala/page/n7/mode/2up Volume 2] [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor03shipiala/page/n7/mode/2up Volume 3] and [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor00ship/page/n5/mode/2up 1843 edition] with a further chapter. Archive.org:He first enlisted in 1797 age 13 (born 1784) and was with the [[22nd Regiment of Foot]] in India, where he took part in the siege of Bhurtpore (page 99) and as a result he was promoted to be an officer in 1805. He sold out in 1808 and re-enlisted and went to India again. In 1815 he was promoted and became an ensign in the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers. He left India in 1825.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_105.gif "Hazaribagh Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 13'', page 99. Mentions numerous deaths from enteric fever in 1874 at the cantonment at [[Hazaribagh]] where the 2nd Battalion was stationed.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/38/mode/2up Chapter III: "India in the Eighties"] page 38 ''Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha''] by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org . The author left England in December 1883 on the troopship Malabar to join the 2nd Cheshires at [[Peshawar]]
