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#[http:<references //books.google.com.au/books?id=J-ERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 ''United Service Magazine''] 1861 Part III, p607#Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick Lord, [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00unkngoog#page/n44/mode/1up Forty One Years in India: From subaltern to commander-in-chief Volume 1] 1897, p12>
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on the staff and in civil appointments ; the officers selected were not seconded or replaced in their regiments. This was the case in a less degree, no doubt, in the Horse
Artillery than in the other branches, for its esprit was great, and officers were proud to belong to this corps d'elite. It certainly was a splendid service; the men were
the pick of those recruited by the East India Company, they were of magnificent physique, and their uniform was singularly handsome. The jacket was much the same as that now worn by the Royal Horse Artillery, but instead of the busby they had a brass helmet covered in front with leopard skin, surmounted by a long red plume,which drooped over the back like that of a French Cuirassier. This, with white buckskin breeches and long boots, completed a uniform which was one of the most picturesque and effective I have ever seen on a parade-ground.<supref>Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick Lord, [[http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00unkngoog#References|2]page/n44/mode/1up Forty One Years in India: From subaltern to commander-in-chief Volume 1]1897, p12</supref> </blockquote>
==Amalgamation==
A list of the destination of each troop at amalgamation with the [[Royal Horse Artillery]] in 1861.<supref>[[#References|1]http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J-ERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 ''United Service Magazine'']1861 Part III, p607</supref> Note that the new brigades underwent many name changes over subsequent decades.
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