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===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zc5bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3 ''A letter to ... Sir J. Hobhouse ... on the baggage of the Indian Army''] by Sir Charles James Napier 1849 Google Books
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gZpeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP3 ''A Few Brief Comments on Sir Charles Napier's Letter to Sir J. Hobhouse, "On the Baggage of the Indian Army" ''] by Lieut-Col W Burlton of the Bengal Cavalry, late Commissary-General of the Bengal Army 1849 Google Books
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0QpXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3 ''Sir Charles Napier's Indian Baggage Corps. Reply to Lieut.-Col. Burlton's attack [i.e. to his pamphlet entitled: “A few brief comments on Sir Charles Napier's Letter to Sir John Hobhouse”''] by Major Montagu McMurdo, late Head of the Quartet-Master General’s Department of Scinde 1850 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog#page/n359/mode/1up Extract from the "Revised Memorandum of Instructions regarding care and keep of Elephants by the Commissary General, Bengal [1878<nowiki>]</nowiki>"] from [http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog#page/n321/mode/1up"Notes on Elephants and their Transport by Railway"] by Capt H Wilberforce Clarke RE from ''Professional Papers on Indian Engineering Second Series Volume 8 1879''
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/thirteenyearsamo029922mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Thirteen Years Among The Wild Beasts Of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation: With an Account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants''] by GP Sanderson, Officer in Charge of the Government Elephant Catching Establishment in Mysore 6th edition 1907 Archive.org (first published 1878). The author was the model for the Rudyard Kipling character 'Petersen Sahib' in the story [http://archive.org/stream/junglebookkipl#page/216/mode/2up ''Toomai of the Elephants''], [http://www.kiplingjournal.com/textfiles/KJ180.txt Scroll down for the article 'Petersen Sahib'] by Sir Theodore Tasker ''The Kipling Journal December 1971'' [http://www.kipling.org.uk/index.htm Kipling Society]
