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:[https://archive.org/details/ourburmesewarsre00laurrich ''Our Burmese wars and relations with Burma: being an abstract of military and political operations, 1824-25-26, and 1852-53, with various local, statistical, and commercial information, and a summary of events from 1826 to 1879, including a sketch of King Theebau's progress''] by Colonel WFB Laurie 2nd edition 1885 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/incidentsinindia00pittiala ''Incidents in India and Memories of the Mutiny, with some records of Alexander's Horse and the 1st Bengal Cavalry''] Edited by F W Pitt 1896 Archive.org. The subject of the book is General W R E Alexander, a Commander of the 1st Bengal Cavalry. He took part in the 2nd Burma War.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.513692/page/n11/mode/2up ''An Old Soldier’s Memories''] by S. H. Jones-Parry, late Captain Royal Dublin Fusiliers. 1897 Archive.org. The author arrived in India in 1849. He joined 1st Madras Fusiliers in 1850 (page 24). He took part in the 2nd Burma War and the [[Indian Mutiny]]. He left India, c early-mid 1860s.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinajiminciden00harrgoog '''China Jim', Incidents and Adventures in the Life of an Indian Mutiny Veteran''] by Major General J T Harris 1912 Archive.org He joined the Bengal Army in 1849. He probably retired c late 1870s. He took part in the 2nd Burma War, the [[Indian Mutiny]] and the [[2nd China War]].
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=N2EQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Recent Operations of the British Forces at Rangoon and Martaban''] by Rev Thomas Turner Baker, Chaplain and Naval Instructor of HMS Fox 1852 Google Books
*"An Officer's Diary of a Two Months' Boat Expedition in Burmah" ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal 1861 Part 1'' [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vt4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA239 Part 1], page 239 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vt4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA402 Part 2], page 402. The author was a Medical Officer. Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=EW8BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Six months at Martaban, during the Burmese war; and An essay on the political causes which led to the establishment of British power in India''] by "an officer in active service on the spot" 1854 Google Books
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170714142608/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-2.pdf "A Naval Brigade In Burma in 1858"] (scroll down) by W. B. R. ''The Naval Review'' May 1938 Vol XXVI no 2, pages 283-288. Now an archived webpage. The destination was the frontier post and Fort at Meaday, on the Irrawaddy.
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