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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-06/1149438720 thread] mentions the Hanoverian Regiments and this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-02/0919004517 post] mentions Swiss regiments
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-12/1261348709 thread] mentions the Swiss mercenary [[De Meuron Regiment|regiment of De Meuron]] largely manned by Germans, who were working for the Dutch but who switched sides when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope in 1795
*The Wurttemberg’s Wurttemberg Regiment’s German name was the Württembergisches Kapregiment or Cape Regiment [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapregiment Kapregiment] Wikipedia written in German and associated [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W%C3%BCrttembergisches_Kapregiment Wikimedia].This Rootsweb List [http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BADEN-WURTTEMBERG/2001-11/1005137681 post] says: Wuerttemberg Kapregiment (the regiment of the Cape of Good Hope) from 1786 to 1808. Duke Carl Eugen of Wuerttemberg formed a regiment of soldiers and sold it to the Dutch to fight as their mercenaries at the Cape. Of the 3,200 men only about 100 men returned home!. This [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Kapregiment.png&filetimestamp=2008081512052 Wikipedia map] showing where the Regiment was based, includes Madras.
*In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by 500 men of the Jaeger Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny according to this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-03/1078511503 thread]
*This India list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218693873 thread] is about Germans in Dutch East India Company regiments in India or the East Indies and advises they were often taken over by the EIC
