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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MoUfAAAAYAAJ ''Historical Record of the Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment: Containing an Account of the Establishment of Independent Companies in 1645; Their Formation Into a Regiment in 1748; and Its Subsequent Services to 1842''] by [[James Neill|James George Smith Neill]], Staff Officer (1843). Page xvi of the introduction (at the very front of the book) mentions the recruitment in the early days of a few Swiss mercenaries, [[French]] prisoners of war (after their release), 400 Germans at the [[South Africa|Cape of Good Hope]] in 1795 and more Germans in the Eastern Islands [Amboyna] in 1810.