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*[https://archive.org/details/narrativemutiny00stragoog/page/n6/mode/2up ''Narrative of the Mutiny of the Officers of the Army in Bengal in the year 1766''] by Henry Strachey, Secretary to Lord Clive during his last Expedition to India, and lately given in Evidence to the Secret Committee of the House of Commons. 1773 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3463/mode/2up ''Soldiering in India 1764-1787: extracts from journals and letters left by Lt. Colonel Allen Macpherson and Lt. Colonel John Macpherson of the East India Company's Service''] by William Charles Macpherson, formerly of the Indian Civil Service. 1928. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi].
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsofdeanmah0000maho/mode/2up ''The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India''] Edited with an introduction and biographical essay by Michael H. Fisher 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Born 1759, Born 1759, Dean Mahomet appears to have become part of the Bengal Army 1769 after meeting a British Officer. **[https://archive.org/details/travelsofdeanmah0000maho/page/44/mode/2up Letter V] In 1771 troops are mobilised against the Marathas, page 44. Dean Mahomet would then have been age 12.
:[http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4h4nb20n/ Transcribed version] cdlib.org
:Originally published as [https://archive.org/details/b28742898 ''The Travels of Dean Mahomet, A Native of Patna in Bengal, Through Several Parts of India, While in the Service of The Honourable The East India Company Written by Himself, In a Series of Letters to a Friend''] 1794. Volumes I And II in one digital file [https://archive.org/details/b28742898/page/194/mode/2up Volume II]; [https://archive.org/details/b28742898/page/n27/mode/2up Contents, Vol. I], [https://archive.org/details/b28742898/page/196/mode/2up Contents, Vol. II] Archive.org. Born 1759, he appears to have become part of the Bengal Army 1769 after meeting a British Officer.
*[http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/5499 ''A Sketch of the Services of the Bengal Native Army to the year 1895''] by F G Cardew 1903. Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5499/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/indianarmyunifor00carm/page/n7 ''Indian Army Uniforms under the British from the 18th century to 1947: Cavalry''] by W Y Carman 1961. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes a [https://archive.org/details/indianarmyunifor00carm/page/232 Regimental index, page 232].
