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== References ==
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*'''1861''' Transfer of soldiers to Royal Artillery. The Madras Artillery was absorbed into the [[Royal Artillery]] as the 17th, 20th and 23rd Brigades<ref>
[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J-ERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA606 "The New Artillery Amalgamation"], pages 606-607 (December 1861) from ''Colburn’s United Service Magazine, Volume 97, 1861 Part 3'' Google Books</ref>
==Research sources==
*Muster Lists for soldiers of the Madras Artillery exist in IOR/L/MIL/11- series exist from 1762 to 1861.
*The British Library's catalogue includes
**''The History of the Royal and Indian Artillery in the Mutiny of 1857'' by Julian RJ R J Jocelyn (1915). Available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, for details see [[Royal Artillery]].
===FIBIS resources===
:Extracts from "The Private Letters of William Porter, Gunner, 3rd Batt., Madras Artillery (1826-1857) (Mss Eur. G128, British Library)", including time spent in [[Burma]]
*"The Headquarters of the Madras Artillery at Saint Thomas’s Mount" by Peter Bailey [[FIBIS Journals| ''FIBIS Journal Number 10 (Autumn 2003)'']]. FIBIS members may read this article online.
==External links==
*[http://36reg.com/id29.htm 111 (Dragon) Battery RA]. Dragon Battery was founded as G Company, the Madras Foot Artillery in 1806 and eventually disbanded 1984.
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ikMIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''History of the Services of the Madras Artillery''] Vol 1, (to 1810) by Peter James Begbie, Madras 1852. Volume 2 is available at the [[British Library]].
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=p0FYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Course of Instruction in Laboratory Work, and Directions for Making Percussion Caps; Also an Explanation of the Various Instruments in Use with the Madras Artillery''] Artillery Depot of Instruction, St Thomas’ Mount, January 1847 Google Books
[[Category:Madras Artillery Regiments]]
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