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[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/166/mode/1up Rollo Gillespie] ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' (1906)<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo_Gillespie Rollo Gillespie] Wikipedia<br />
===Historical books online===*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JEgVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA86 Page 86] ''A Memoir of Major-General Sir R.R. Gillespie'' [by William Thorn] 1816 Google Books. On 7 May 1805 Gillespie exchanged into the Nineteenth Light Dragoons, then in India, to where he proceeded overland from England. He then caused the [[Vellore Mutiny]] of 1806 to be put down. The Nineteenth Light Dragoons being ordered to Europe, Gillespie, on 16 April 1807 exchanged into the [[8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars|8th Royal Irish Light Dragoons]] and saw service in the Punjab (page 108); on 5 January 1809 he exchanged into the [[25th Light Dragoons| Twenty-fifth Light Dragoons]] (page 111); subsequently he commanded the First Division in the [[Java Expedition]] of 1811 (page 120), and then took part in the [[Gurkha War]], from page 204, where he was killed in 1814.
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