Military History

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BICHENO, Hugh. Rebels & Redcoats: the American Revolutionary War. London: HarperCollins, 2003.

BIDWELL, Shelford. Swords For Hire: European mercenaries in eigtheenth-century India. London: John Murray, 1971.

BROHIER, R. L. The Golden Age of Military Adventure in Ceylon: an account of the Uva Rebellion 1817-1818. Colombo: 1933 [Limited ed. 150 copies].

BOWEN, H. V. War and British Society, 1688-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

BRUCE, P.C. The Purchase System in the British Army, 1660-1871. London: Royal Historical Society, 1980.

BUCKLEY, Roger Norman. The British Army in the West Indies: society and the military in the revolutionary age. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 1998.

CADELL, Sir Patrick. A History of the Bombay Army. London: Longmans Green,1938.

CALLAHAN, Raymond. The East India Company and the Army Reform, 1783-1798. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.

CHATTERJI, S. K. Vintage Guns of India: an artillery directorate project. New Delhi: Macmillan India, 2001.

CLYDE, Robert. From Rebel to Hero: the image of the Highlander, 1745-1830. East Linton: Tuckwell, 1995.

A Colonial Regiment: new sources relating to the New South Wales Corps 1789-1810. (ed.) Pamela Statham. Canberra: ANU Tech, 1992.

COOKSON, John. The British Armed Nation 1793-1815. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

COOPER. Randolf G. S. The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India: the struggle for control of the South Asian military economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

COX, Caroline. A Proper Sense of Honor: service and sacrifice in George Washington's army. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2004.

DALTON, Charles. Waterloo Roll Call: with biographical notes and anecdotes. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press, 2001. [Orig. publ. 1904].

DUFFY, Michael. Soldiers, Sugar and Seapower: The British Expeditions to the West Indies and the War Against Revolutionary France. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

EGERTON, Wilbraham Egerton. A Description of Indian and Oriental armour: illustrated from the collection formerly in the India Office, now exhibited at South Kensington, and the author's private collection: With a map, twenty-three full-page plates (two coloured), and numerous woodcuts: With an introductory sketch of the military history of India by Lord Egerton of Tatton. London: W.H. Allen & Co., Limited, 1896.

FERRAR, M. L. Historical Record of the Green Howards XIXth Regiment: a history of the services of the 19th Regiment: now Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own (Yorkshire Regiment) from its formation in 1688 to 1911. London: Eden Fisher, 1911.

FERRAR, M. L. Officers of the Green Howards, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment), (formerly the 19th Foot) 1688 to 1920. London, Eden Fisher, 1920.

Fighting for Identity: Scottish military experience c1550-1900. (eds.) Stephen Murdoch and Andrew MacKillop. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

FORTESQUE, J. W. A History of the British Army. London: Macmillan, 1906.

Guardians of Empire: the Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers c.1700-1964. (eds.) David Killingray and David Omissi. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.

HENDERSON, Diana. Highland Soldier: a social study of the Highland Regiments, 1820-1920. Edinburgh: John Donald, c1989.

Historical Record of the Seventy-Third Regiment: containing an account of the formation of the Regiment from the period of its being raised as the Second Battalion of the Forty-Second Highlanders in 1780 and of its subsequent services to 1851. Compiled by Richard Cannon. London: Parker, Furnivall & Parker,1851.

HOLMES, Richard. Redcoat: the British soldier in the age of horse and musket. London: HarperCollins, 2001.

HOULDING, J. A. Fit For Service: the training of the British Army, 1715-1795. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.

INGRAM, Edward. In Defence of British India: Great Britain in the Middle East 1775-1842. London: Frank Cass, 1984.
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LAGDEN, Alan and SLY, John. The 2/73rd at Waterloo: including a roll of all ranks present with biographical notes. Brightlingsea: Privately Printed, 1998 [2nd ed.]

LAURIE, George Brenton. History of the Royal Irish Rifles. Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2004 [Reprint of 1914 edition].

de MEURON, Guy. Le Régiment Meuron 1781-1816. Lausanne: Le Forum Historique, c.1982 pp.164-187.

MIKABERIDZE, Alexander. The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1795-1815. Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2005.

Military System of the East India Company. (ed.) Raj Kumar. New Delhi: Commonwealth, 2004.

MONTAGUE, R. H. Dress and Insignia of the British Army in Australia. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1981.

MONTAGUE, R. H. Macquarie's Veterans. Rutherford, NSW: 1995.

NELSON, William A. The Dutch Forts of Sri Lanka: the military monuments of Ceylon. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1984.

NEWARK, Tim. Brassey's Book of Uniforms. London: Brassey's, 1998.

PHILIPPART, John. The East India Military Calendar; containing the services of general and field officers of the Indian army. London: Parbury and Allen, 1823-1826. [3 vols]

POWELL, Geoffrey. The Kandyan Wars: the British Army in Ceylon 1803-1818. London: Leo Cooper, 1973.

POWELL, Geoffrey and POWELL, John. The History of the Green Howards: three hundred years of service. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 2002. rev. ed. [First publ. 1992].
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PHYTHIAN-ADAMS, E. G. The Madras Regiment 1758-1958. Wellington (Tamil Nadu, India): C.D. Dhody & Sons, 1958.
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PREBBLE, John. Mutiny: Highland Regiments in revolt, 1743-1804. London: Secker & Warburg, 1975.

ROBSON, Brian. Swords of the British Army: the Regulation Patterns, 1788-1914. London: Arms & Armour, 1975.

The Road to Waterloo. (ed.) Alan J. Guy. London: National Army Museum, 1990.

SANDES, E. W. C. The Military Engineer in India. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval & Military Press, 1997 [reprint] (First publ. 1933).

SARGENT, Clem. The Colonial Garrison 1817-1824: the 48th Foot, the Northhamptonshire Regiment in the colony of New South Wales. Canberra: TCS Publications, 1996.

Scotland and War AD 79-1918. (ed.) Norman Macdougall. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1991.

SMITH, Digby. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill Books, 1998.

Soldiers of the Raj: the Indian Army 1600-1947. (eds.) Alan J. Guy and Peter B.Boyden. London: National Army Museum, 1997.

STANLEY, Peter. The Remote Garrison: the British Army in Australia 1788 - 1870. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1986.

STATHAM, Pamela. (ed.) A Colonial Regiment: new sources relating to the New South Wales Corps. Canberra: P. Statham, 1992.

Tools of War: instruments, ideas, and institutions of warfare, 1445-1871. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, 1990.

VENNING, Annabel. Following the Drum: the lives of army wives and daughters past and present. London: Headline Review, 2006.

Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia 1000-1800. (eds.) Jos. J.L. Gommans and Dirk H.A. Kolff. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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WELLINGTON, Duke of, [Arthur Wellesley]. The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley: January to December 1803. (ed.) Anthony S. Bennell. Stroud [England]: Army Records Society, 1998.

WICKREMESEKERA, Channa. Best Black Troops in the World: British perceptions and the making of the sepoy, 1746-1805. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2002.

WICKREMESEKERA, Channa. Kandy at War: Indigenous Resistance to European Expansion in Sri Lanka, 1594-1818. New Delhi: Manohar, 2004.

WILCOX, Craig. Red Coat Dreaming: how colonial Australia embraced the British army. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

BARUA, Pradeep. "Military Developments in India, 1750-1850." The Journal of Military History October 1994 pp.599-616.

BAYLY, C. A. "The British Military-Fiscal State and Indigenous Resistance: India 1750-1820." in Origins of Nationality in South Asia: patriotism and ethical government in the making of modern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998 pp.238-275.

BRYANT, G. J. "Civil-Military Relations in Early British India, 1750-1785." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 83 (2005) pp.131-151.

BRYANT, G. J. "Indigenous Mercenaries in the Service of European Imperialists: the case of the sepoys in the early British Indian Army, 1750-1800. War in History [Great Britain] 2000 7 (1): 2-28.

BULLOCK, P.H. "A Note on the 73rd Regiment of Foot 1809-1881." Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal. 1957, Vol. 43 Pt 3, pp 144-145.

COLIN-THOME, Percy, "Governor Van Angelbeek and the Capitulation of the Dutch Settlements in Ceylon to the British (1796)." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka Vol. 24 (1978-1979) pp. 20-48.

COOKSON, J. E. "The Napoleonic Wars, Military Scotland and Tory Highlandism in the Early Nineteenth Century."The Scottish Historical Review Vol. LXXVIII, 1 No. 205: April 1999 pp.60-75.

DAVIS, Richard H. "Three Styles of Looting in India." History and Anthropology [Great Britain] Vol. 6 No. 4 (1994) pp.293-317.

DALY, Gavin. "Napoleon's Lost Legions: French Prisoners of War in Britain, 1803-1814." History Vol. 89, No. 295 (2004) pp.361-380.

DINWIDDY, J. R. "The Early Nineteenth-Century Campaign against Flogging in the Army." The English Historical Review. Vol.97, No. 383 (April, 1982) pp. 308-331.

GILBERT, Arthur N. "Law and Honour among Eighteenth-Century British Army Officers." The Historical Journal Vol. 19, No. 1. (March 1976) pp. 75-87.

GOLDSMITH, D.V. "Macquarie's Regiment." Sabretache September 1972, pp.2-13.

KIERNAN, Victor. "Scottish Soldiers and the Conquest of India." in The Scottish Soldier Abroad, 1247-1967. (ed.) Grant G. Simpson. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1992 pp.97-110.

LAMB, John Bruce. "Funerals For the Officers, Arrack for the Men." Army Quarterly and Defence Journal. Vol. 102(2) 1972 pp.233-237.

MACKILLOP, Andrew. "For King, Country and Regiment?: Motive and Identity Within Highland Soldiering, 1746-1815." in Fighting For Identity: Scottish Military Experience, c.1550-1900. (eds.) Steve Murdoch and A. Mackillop. Leiden: Brill, 2002 pp.185-211.

MARSHALL, P. J. "'Cornwallis Triumphant': War in India and the British Public in the Late Eighteenth Century." in Trade and Conquest: studies on the rise of British dominance in India. Aldershot: Variorum, 1993 pp.57-74.

MONTAGUE, R. H. "The Royal Veterans in Australia." Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal. December 1982, Vol. 68 Pt 3, pp 238-246.

NENADIC, Stana. "The Impact of the Military Profession on Highland Gentry Families, c.1730-1830." Scottish Historical Review 85 (2006) pp.75-99.

NEVILL, Hugh, "Notes on Military History of Trincomalie." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka Vol. XXXVIII 1993/1994 pp.35-126.

PIMLOTT, J. L. "The Raising of Four Regiments for India, 1787-88." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 1974 52 (210) pp. 68-88.

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STRACHAN, Huw. "Scotland's Military Identity." The Scottish Historical Review. Vol. LXXXV, 2: No. 220: October 2006 pp.315-332.

WALSH, Robin. "An Enemy of Tipu: a Scottish Soldier's View of 1799." Research paper presented at the 'Tipu Sultan Bi-Centenary Commemoration International Seminar': Bangalore, India 5-6 May 1999. (unpubl.)

WICKREMESEKERA, Channa, "Military Organisation in Pre-Modern Sri Lanka: The Army of the Kandyan Kings." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Volume XXVII Number 2 August 2004 pp.133-151.

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