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Orphan schools were established at Vizagapatum about the year 1830, as an asylum for the children and descendants of the men of the European veterans at the station<ref>idem [http://books.google.com/books?id=tHQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA368 page 368]</ref>.This appears to indicate that by this time, the headquarters were at Vizagapatum.
==Also see==
*[[Madras Native Veteran Battalions]] which advises that "Europeans were in commissioned and non-commissioned officer roles, the latter including lance corporal, corporal, sergeant, sergeant major". These Battalions coninued until at least 1859.
==British Library records==
