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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eDNcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Memoir of Lieut.-Col. John Macdonald''] 1831 Google Books. He became a cadet of the Bombay Army in 1780, first in the infantry , then the Engineers. In 1782 he joined the Bengal Engineers and was sent to Bencoolen and mainly performed survey work in this area until 1796. (Note, an unrelated book follows the Memoir)
*[http://www.google.com/books?id=Jc0KAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA387 "Bengal Sieges: Plan of a Pioneer Corps, and a Company of Sappers, originally prepared by the late Major General Horsford:— Siege of Adjeegurh, in Bundlecund"] ''The British Indian Military Repository,Volume 4, Part 3'', page 387. 1826 Google Books
*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/621999-memoir-of-general-sir-william-erskine-baker-k-c-b-royal-engineers-bengal ''Memoir of General Sir William Erskine Baker, K.C.B., Royal Engineers (Bengal)''] 1882. Born 1808, he arrived in India in 1828 and worked on the canals of Upper India where he became involved with fossil discoveries. Papers about these were written in the ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal''. He worked mainly with Canals and latterly the Railways, and in 1855 became the first Secretary of the Public Works Department. He left India in 1857 and in 1858 became Military Secretary at the India Office. FamilySearch Digital Library. You need to sign in to FS to view the book.
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeofmissi00yulerich ''A Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855, with notices of the country, government, and people''] by Captain Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers 1858 Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sTxNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books version]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=utpGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''A Year's Campaigning in India: From March, 1857, to March, 1858''] by Julius George Medley, Captain Bengal Engineers and Garrison Engineer of Lucknow. 1858 Google Books
