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*FIBIS database: [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1135&s_id=340 Registers of Bengal Army European Soldiers] Currently (2017/6/16) consists of IOR/L/MIL/10/122-123, 1790-1839 but additional years are to follow.
*FIBIS database: [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=679&s_id=137 Soldiers’ and Widows’ Pension details -1896] IOR/ L/MIL/14/214 & 215. Includes previous members of the Bengal,[[Madras Army|Madras]] and [[Bombay Army|Bombay Armies]], including men from the [[Unattached List]]. May also include a few members of the [[Indian Army]] which officially was formed in 1895. These records are available on LDS microfilm 2029979 Items 1-2 ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/774116 catalogue entry]), however the FIBIS database record contains all the information available in the microfilm.<ref>Bailey, Peter. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210121072123/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=785900 Army Records] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 20 March 2012, archived.</ref>
*FIBIS database: [httphttps://search.fibis.ourarchives.onlineorg/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=2159list_sources&s_idsource_class=1117 407 Applications for Cadetships in the EIC Armies (Index)] includes Bengal Army. These are records for officers.
*FIBIS database: [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=152&s_id=39 List of the Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758-1834] Index to book of same name by V. C .P. Hodson, 4 vols. Recommended on [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Military_reading_list#HEIC_armies Fibiwiki Military Reading List]. Also see Books, below.
*FIBIS database: [https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1305 Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Bengal Army from 1760 to 1834] compiled by Dodwell and Miles. Also see Books below.
*FIBIS database: [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=378&s_id=14 War Services of Officers of the Bengal Army 1863]. Transcriptions from the book ''Ubique : War Services of all the Officers of HM's Bengal Army'' by Thomas C Anderson 1863. This book is available online on a pay website, and on LDS microfilm 2105290 Item 2 ([https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/819733 catalogue entry]), however Peter Bailey has advised the FIBIS database record contains all the information available in the microfilm.
*"Edward Squibb-Letters from a Bengal Cadet" by Charles Gordon Clark ''FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)'' pages 15-24. Edward Squibb arrived in 1820. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111320/page/n1 ''(Military Series) Vol.21 1797-1800''] Edited by Sita Ram Kohli. 1968. Letters to and from the Military Department
**Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01009529821 which includes (Military series) v. 19. 1787-1791 ed. by B. Prasad.
*[https://archive.org/details/journalofsociety0002soci_g6u6/page/130/mode/2up "The Baraset Cadet College, East Indies"] by Major V Hodson, Indian Army (Retired List] page 130 ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. Vol. 2 : 1923'', reprint edition 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available in [https://archive.org/details/journal-of-the-society-for-army-historical-research-vol-1-1921-vol-2-1923/page/129/mode/2up another version Archive.org]. Also available [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44232059 Jstor.org version], register and read for free. (Limit per month applies). Located 16 miles from Calcutta, the Baraset College was inaugurated towards the end of 1803, closed 1803-1805 during the Mahratta War, reopened 1806 and finally closed 1 September 1811 due to the bad behaviour of many of the students.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=lYTcRScE2JQC&pg=PR1 ''Inquiry into the state of the Indian Army : with suggestions for its improvement and the establishment of a military police for India''] by Walter Badenach, Captain Bengal Army 1826 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=scJCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 ''A collection of facts and documents relative to batta, &c. with other pending questions concerning the Indian Army, compiled from the proceedings of the East India officers A.D. 1793 to 1796, the general orders and other official sources; with short arguments and marginal notes for current use'']. Calcutta , Samuel Smith and Co. 1829 Google Books
