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{{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}} [[Category: Non-British Ancestors]] [[Category:Madras Infantry Regiments| Madras Infantry Regiments]]
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The troops were also known as Electoral troops, or Hanoverian Electoral troops, a reference to George III who was also Elector of Hannover.
==FIBIS resources==
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1576&s_id=967 FIBIS database: 14th Hanoverian Regiment Muster Roll 24th December 1789] taken from TNA [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C2470650?v=r WO 12/10812]
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1577&s_id=967 FIBIS database: 15th Hanoverian Regiment Muster Roll 24th June 1789] taken from TNA [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C2470651?v=r WO 12/10813]
==Histories==
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uQt4PleGb8QC&pg=PA97 ''The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book: Third Edition Volume 3''], page 97 by John Philippart 1820 Google Books contains a short description of the service of the Regiments in India
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Xj4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA121 ''Hannoversche Truppen in Ostindien''] from ''Geschichte der churhannoverschen Truppen in Gibraltar: Minorca und Ostindien''] by Ernst von dem Knesebeck 1845 Google Books (German language)
**The 15th and 16th Regiments arrived September 1782 and April 1783, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xj4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA135 page 135]
**The regiments were renumbered in 1785, following a general renumbering of the Hanoverian Infantry, from 15 and 16 to 14 and 15 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xj4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA153 page 153]
==Records==
===In England===
The National Archives records [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C2470650?v=r WO 12/10812] and [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C2470651?v=r WO 12/10813] appear to contain a small number of Muster Rolls additional to the 1789 Rolls on the FIBIS database, refer [[Hanoverian Regiments#FIBIS resources|FIBIS resources above]]
===In Germany===
[http://www.hauptstaatsarchiv-hannover.niedersachsen.de/live/live.php?navigation_id=24756&_psmand=187 Niedersächsische Landesarchiv] ( Lower Saxony State Archives) has an [http://www.aidaonline.niedersachsen.de Online-Findbücher] (search facility). Searching for 'Ostindien' brings up catalogue references to the “14. Infanterie-Regiment” and “15. Infanterie-Regiment” and "15. (14.) hannoversch. Inf. Regt" and “16. (15.) hannoversch. Inf. Regt” . Also the following catalogue entries
*The following reference is quoted in [http://www.igv.nl/jir/broneng.html Janssen’s Indisch Repertorium]: "Hannoversche Regimenter in fremdem Sold (14. und 15. Churf. Hann. Infanterie Regt.)", door Ernst Ritter, in: ''Norddeutsche Familienkunde 1'' (1952), 53-55; 71-74; 99-101.
