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*''History of the Madras Army'' by Lieutenant-Colonel William John Wilson [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/YI2HHUN2PHE6PZICICDLMLREI5RZ6OFY ''Volume1''] Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek . Covers the period 1746-1780. [http://www.archive.org/stream/historymadrasar00wilsgoog#page/n4/mode/1up ''Volume 2''] 1882 Covers the period 1780-1799. [http://www.archive.org/stream/historymadrasar01wilsgoog#page/n4/mode/1up ''Volume 3''] 1883. Covers the period 1799-1817. Archive.org. [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/DSPN4VV76IA5LESNB77VDGHFZ73WE4LO ''Volume 4: From 1746-1826 : with an account of the European artillery, engineers, and infantry up to their amalgamation with the Royal Army in 1861, and of the native cavalry and infantry up to 1887''] 1888, [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/7BBFTUMSO5S5L2OKE6HCVI4TXSQDCFBN ''Volume 5: Maps''] 1889 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.
*[https://archive.org/details/SepoyRecruitment ''Sepoy Recruitment In The Old Madras Army''] by H Dodwell, Curator, Madras Record Office. 1922. Archive.org. Part of the series ''Studies in Indian Records'' published by the Indian Historical Records Commission.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZflAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA71 Page 71] ''Genuine memoirs of Asiaticus: in a series of letters to a friend, during five years residence in different parts of India, three of which were spent in the service of the Nabob of Arcot'' by Philip Dormer Stanhope 1784 Google Books. In 1775 he briefly received a commission in the Madras Army, but almost immediately changed to the service of the Nabob of Arcot who had several regiments commanded by European Officers.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5jNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Head Quarters, Choultry Plain, thirteenth July, MDCCXCVI [1796<nowiki>]</nowiki>. General Orders: by the Commander in Chief [Madras Army''<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Google Books. A restructure of the Regiments.
*[https://archive.org/details/stringerlawrence00bidd ''Stringer Lawrence, the Father of the Indian Army''] by Colonel J Biddulph 1901 Archive.org. The subject arrived at Fort St David in January 1748, He had been earlier appointed Major of the Garrison at Fort St George , which had since been taken by the French. By 1752 he was Commander-in Chief of all the Company’s military forces in the East Indies.
