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The [[LDS]] have microfilmed ''European Inhabitants in Bengal 1783-1807, Madras 1702-1828 and Bombay 1718-1792''. It is available on microfilm no. '''2104564''' and gives names, country, length of time in India, occupation, relations, and so on.
==External links==
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MoUfAAAAYAAJ ''Historical Record of the Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment: Containing an Account of the Establishment of Independent Companies in 1645; Their Formation Into a Regiment in 1748; and Its Subsequent Services to 1842''] by James George Smith Neill, Staff Officer (1843). Page xvi of the introduction (at the very front of the book) mentions the recruitment in the early days of a few Swiss mercenaries, [[French]] prisoners of war (after their release), 400 Germans at the [[South Africa|Cape of Good Hope]] in 1795 and more Germans in the Eastern Islands [Amboyna] in 1810.
