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*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.289849/2015.289849.Bengal-Past#page/n11/mode/2up "Diary of Samuel Hickson 1777-1785"] in ''Bengal Past and Present, Volume 49 ,Part 1 1935'', pages 5-54 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Page 6 documents the hardships suffered by most new recruits on the voyage to India.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Memoirs of the early life and service of a field officer on the retired list of the Indian army''] by Major David Price 1839 Google Books. Recruitment into the East India Company Army in London in 1780 is mentioned on [http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA11 page 11]
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-2337686/page/n1/mode/2up "Vital Statistics of the East India Company's Armies in India, European and Native"] by Lieut.-Colonel W H Sykes ''Journal of the Statistical Society of London'', Volume 10, 1847, pages 100-131. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/nedfortescueorro00forruoft ''Ned Fortescue; or, Roughing it through life; a story founded on fact''] by EW Forrest, late Her Majesty’s Indian Army. 1869 Archive.org. It seems likely that the author arrived in India c 1841 and took part in actions during the 1840s and 1850s, from the [[Sind Campaign]] to the [[Indian Mutiny]]. Ned meets a recruiting party for the East India Company on [https://archive.org/stream/nedfortescueorro00forruoft#page/26/mode/2up page 26]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qfgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Duties of Judge Advocates: Compiled from Her Majesty’s and the Hon. East India Company’s Military Regulations…''] by Captain R M Hughes 12th Regiment Bombay Army, Deputy Judge Advocate General, Scinde Field Force. 1845 Google Books
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