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==Individuals==*N.W. Bancroft [Nathaniel Washington] "joined the Bengal Horse Artillery as a boy recruit at the age of 9 in 1833 and served through some of the most turbulent years of British rule in India. In 1885 he published his memoirs, ''From Recruit to Staff Sergeant'', telling of the campaigns of his career. He gives particular emphasis on the Sikh wars that culminated in the three Sutlej battles, which he describes in gory detail. His account of the actions of the artillery in the Sikh battles match with accuracy to the official accounts, giving a reliable illustration of the tactics of that time. Bancroft gives a tactile description of the sights and sounds of the battlefield, as they were seen and heard from the men on the ground".<ref>[https://www.sikhbookshelf.com/products/from-recruit-to-staff-sergeant ''From Recruit to Staff Sergeant''] sikhbookshelf.com</ref> A 1979 reprint of this book is available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01010107383 . A recent reprint is available with a changed title.<ref>[http://www.leonaur.com/index.php?route=product/product&search=Bancroft&product_id=280 ''Bancroft of the Bengal Horse Artillery''] Leonaur Books</ref> Also see below for a ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' article.
==External links==
*[httphttps://www.metmuseum.org/collectionsart/collection/search-the-collections/190041447?img=0 287673 Two photographs: Bengal Horse Artillery, 1860] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=E00sB_ObR14C&pg=PA13 ''British Napoleonic Artillery 1793-1815 (1): Field Artillery''] by Chris Henry, page 9 mentions the establishment of the Bengal Horse Artillery.
*Images from Brown University Library Digital Repository.**[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:230774/ Segt. Saml. Shaw B.H.A.] 1840 pen and ink sketch.**[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:230845/ Bengal Horse Artillery, H.E.I.C.S., 1845] Original gouache drawing signed and dated 1889 by J. C(harlton). **[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:230846/ Bengal Horse Artillery officer and troops, c. 1845] watercolour.**[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:251030/ 1846. Bengal Horse Artillery. Trooper] 1903, artist Charles Lyall (CL). **[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:251031/ 1846. Bengal Horse Artillery officer] 1903, artist Charles Lyall (CL).**[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:243295/ Bengal Horse Artillery] 1850 One of a collection of 4 watercolours signed by L.E.G. *[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44227088"Nathaniel Washington Bancroft"] by Kenneth E. Curtis. ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Volume 61, no 247, Autumn 1983 page 142-159. Read online for free on the website Jstor.org, subject to registration with Jstor.org, and restrictions apply. For more details about Jstor, and the restrictions, see the page [[Miscellaneous tips]]. Alternatively you may be able to log in with a Library card.
====Historical books online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirofservices00buckuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery: from the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of its Internal Organization''] by Captain E. Buckle (1852) Archive.org mentions the establishment of the Bengal Horse Artillery and service in Egypt in 1801 from [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirofservices00buckuoft#page/230/mode/2up page 230]
*''First impressions and studies from nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years residence in Bengal and the Doáb, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI'' by Thomas Bacon, Lieut. Of the Bengal Horse Artillery 1837 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/firstimpressions01baco Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstimpressions02baco Volume II]. Also available on Hathi Trust Digital Library [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001266234 A] and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006591415 B], where the illustration pages can be rotated.*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/lsidyv38fae274#ark:/81055/vdc_00000003494F.0x00000B vdc_000000034950# ''On the topography of Meerutt, and the principal diseases which prevailed in the 1st Brigade of Horse Artillery at that place''] by John Murray, M.D., Assistant Surgeon, 1st Brigade Horse Artillery 1839 published Calcutta. British Library itemViewerDigital Collection. (pdf download may be accessed through the BL catalogue: copy and paste lsidyv38fae274 in the [httphttps://explorearchive.bl.ukorg/details/b22274789/primo_librarypage/libwebn1/actionmode/search2up Archive.do?menuitem=1&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Searchorg version] and select ‘ I want this’)*:*[httphttps://accessarchive.bl.ukorg/details/itemb22274789/viewerpage/lsidyv38fae274#ark:n1/81055mode/vdc_00000003494F.0x00000A 1up Plan of the Artillery Hospital and Artillery Barracks] Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NGoLAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Eight months' campaign against the Bengal Sepoy Army during the mutiny of 1857''] by Colonel George Bourchier, Bengal Horse Artillery 1858 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofsiegeof00offirich ''History of the Siege of Delhi''] by An Officer who served there. [William Wotherspoon Ireland, MD] 1861 Archive.org. He was Assistant Surgeon, attached to the Bengal Horse Artillery. He was wounded and retired a few years later.
*[https://archive.org/details/history-artillery-mutiny-1857/page/n13/mode/2up ''The History of the Royal and Indian Artillery in the Mutiny of 1857''] by Julian R J Jocelyn 1915. Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/fbatteryroyalhorseartillery/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Sketch of the History of ‘F’ Battery Royal Horse Artillery''] by Major-General F. W. Stubbs and Major A. S. Tyndale-Biscoe, R.H.A. 1905 Archive.org. Previously 1st Troop in the 1st Brigade of the Bengal Horse Artillery.*Fiction**[https://archive.org/details/GM_Fenn_Gil_the_Gunner ''Gil the Gunner; or The Youngest Officer in the East''] by George Manville Fenn 1892 Archive.org. A boys’ adventure story set in the period of the [[Indian Mutiny]]**[http://www.archive.org/stream/drawswordsinhors00fenn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Draw swords! : In the Horse Artillery''] by George Manville Fenn 1898. Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers about a young officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery, with 8 illustrations.
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