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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62 "Adulterated Liquor sold to Sailors and Soldiers in the Bazars of Calcutta"] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA65 "The dangers to which Sailors and Soldiers are exposed in the Bazars of Calcutta"] from ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports'' by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=c1lNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA308 "East India (Transport of Troops")]. Report of Select Committee c 1858 page 308 'Series F British India, Colonies etc' ''Annals of British Legislation, Volume 5'' edited by Leone Levi 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=z58EAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR50 "Report on the Ships "Clifton Belle" and "Dudbrook," which arrived at Kurrachee with Soldiers' Families in March 1860"] by Surgeon Major D.Grierson M.D., Staff Surgeon, Kurrachee. Appendix page l, ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume VI, New Series 1860'' Google Books. There were many deaths on board, particularly of young children
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=m-yDhirnqWAC&pg=PA226 "The New Overland Troop Service to India"] ''Colburns’s United Service Magazine 1867 Part 3'', page 226. Google Books. (The Suez Canal was subsequently opened for navigation on 17 November 1869)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/akingshussarbei00compgoog#page/n159/mode/2up "Cantonment Life [c 1876<nowiki>]</nowiki>"] , page 151 from ''A King's Hussar: Being the Military Memoirs for Twenty-five Years of a Troop-sergeant-major of the 14th (King’s) Hussars'' by Edwin Mole 1897 Archive.org .
