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**[http://books.google.com/books?id=Xj4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA182 List of Officers, page 182]
*"Die kurhannoverschen Truppen in Ostindien 1782–92", by Victor Von Diebitsch in ''Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter, (1898)'',pages 67–8, 74–5, 82–3, 90–2, 98–9, 106–8, 114–16, 128; (possibly available at the [[British Library]], where the title is in the catalogue, but it is not known if 1898 is held)
*Article "German Voices from India : Officers of the Hanoverian Regiments in East India Company Service" by Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi, in ''South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2 August 2009'' , pages 189 - 211.[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a913070236 Details]. Available at the [[British Library]]. . An earlier paper by the same author "German Officers in Early Colonial India" was presented at a [http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars_events/conferences/crossing-german-borders.html conference] in 2007. The abstract of the paper, page 2 of this [http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars_events/conferences/cgb-abstracts.pdf pdf], states “During their service [1782-1792], dozens of letters written by Hanoverian officers were published in German magazines, in which they described the war and their personal experiences and impressions of India, and three of them published books about their time in India. This paper analyses these publications...”
*''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research: Volumes 3-4 1924'' page 206 (unclear which volume) .Available at the [[British Library]]
:Google Books snippet view extract “189. Hanoverian Troops in the East Indies(Madras) 1782-1787. Colonel Sir Lonsdale Hale, speaking at the Royal United Service Institution on 29 October 1913 (''Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Volume 63'', page 315) said:-
==Individuals==
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bNbre3lCAawC&pg=PA386 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Best] served in the 14th Hanoverian Regiment, appointed June 1781 ''The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book: Third Edition Volume 4'' by John Philippart 1820 Google Books
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=e_BhWkIKNUoC&pg=PA266 Major Frederick Breymann] served in the 14th Hanoverian Regiment in India October 1786- October 1792, the first two years as a soldier and non commissioned officer. ''The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book Third Edition Volume 5'' by John Philippart 1820 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uQt4PleGb8QC&pg=PA96 Major General Peter Duplat] served in the 16th Hanovarian Regiment for its period in India. ''The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book: Third Edition Volume 3'' by John Philippart 1820 Google BooksBook*Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt (1750–1804) In 1781 he was assigned to the post of chaplain of the 15th regiment of the army of Hanover. He served as chaplain in Madras and Arcot and in 1787 returned to Germany owing to weak health. He is the subject of the article by Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi "The Experienced Traveller as a Professional Author: Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt, Georg Forster and Colonialism Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany", in ''History: Journal of the Historical Association'' 16 December 2009 available online, [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.00471.x/full html version] or page 7 of the [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.00471.x/pdf pdf version] Wiley Online Library.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pohlmann Anthony Pohlmann] Wikipedia. He arrived in India as a sergeant in a Hanoverian regiment and subsequently took employment in the army of the Maratha prince, Daulat Scindia. At the Battle of Assaye in 1803, he effectively commanded all the regular battalions in the Maratha army.
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