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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-01/1168720400 thread] advises that there were lots of German Regiments in India especially during the 18th Century and until about 1820, including captured Wurttenburgers from the Dutch service who were brought in from South Africa to fight for the EIC. Many references in the India Office records are listed, including the raising of Swiss and Hanoverian Regiments. This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218610422 thread] is on similar matters.

*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-06/1149438720 thread] mentions the Hanoverian Regiments and this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-02/0919004517 post] mentions Swiss regiments

*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-12/1261348709 thread] mentions the Swiss mercenary [[De Meuron Regiment|regiment of De Meuron]] largely manned by Germans, who were working for the Dutch but who switched sides when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope in 1795

*The Wurttemberg Regiment’s German name was the Württembergisches Kapregiment or Cape Regiment [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapregiment Kapregiment] Wikipedia written in German and associated [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W%C3%BCrttembergisches_Kapregiment Wikimedia].This Rootsweb List [http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BADEN-WURTTEMBERG/2001-11/1005137681 post] says: Wuerttemberg Kapregiment (the regiment of the Cape of Good Hope) from 1786 to 1808. Duke Carl Eugen of Wuerttemberg formed a regiment of soldiers and sold it to the Dutch to fight as their mercenaries at the Cape. Of the 3,200 men only about 100 men returned home!. This [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Kapregiment.png&filetimestamp=2008081512052 Wikipedia map] showing where the Regiment was based, includes Madras.