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*Military reasons for the expansion of the railways are explained in [http://www.essaysinhistory.com/articles/2011/5 "“Fire-Carriages” of the Raj: The Indian Railway and its Rapid Development in British India"] by Amit K. Sharma 2010<ref>[http://www.essaysinhistory.com/articles/2011/5 “Fire-Carriages” of the Raj: The Indian Railway and its Rapid Development in British India”] by Amit K. Sharma 2010 ''Essays In History. Annual Journal of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia''
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*[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol046cs.html "The Problem of Purchase Abolition in the British Army 1856-1862"] by Carl G. Slater ''The South African 
Military History Society: Military History Journal 
Vol 4 No 6'' December 1979
*[https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8dPEQktOJAidUZpMmRvaG11aHc/edit?pli=1 ''The system of purchase and sale of commissions in the British Army and the campaign for its abolition 1660 - 1871''] by Anthony Peter Charles Bruce. PhD Thesis Manchester University, 1949. This link leads to a large pdf which may be opened or downloaded. The thesis may also may be accessed from this [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.488928 British Library Ethos] link. If this is not a permanent link type uk.bl.ethos.488928 (or the title) in the search in this [http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do British Library Ethos Home] link. Most of the British Library Ethos downloads are [http://ethos.bl.uk/About.do free]
*Schola Forum’s [http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=25 Online Fencing and Martial Treatises] includes some links on shooting manuals etc, particularly [http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=22&start=50 19thC Treatises], which includes [http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=17479 this post] which links to [http://archive.org/stream/soldierspocketg00undegoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''The Soldier's Pocket Guide to Shooting''] by W G Underhill 1878 Archive.org
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