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• Gunner Jingo's jubilee. (Remington, 1893), by T. Bland Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British martial register : comprehending a complete chronological history of all the most celebrated land battles, by which the English standard has been distinguished if the field of Mars, from the earliest to the present time ... collected and regularly digested from official papers in the possession of the British government ; with interesting anecdotes and biographical memoirs of popular military officers, who have distinguished themselves both at home and abroad ... (Albion Press printed ; published by James Cundee, 1806), by Roger MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celebrities of the army (G. Newnes, 1902), by Charles N. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the late Major-General Andrew Burn of the Royal Marines collected from his journals. (Printed and sold by Messrs. W. Winchester and Son ..., 1816), by Andrew Burn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our heroes of the Crimea : being biographical sketches of our military officers, from the General Commanding-in-Chief to the subaltern (Routledge, 1855), by George Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our heroes : containing the photographs with biographical notes of officers of Irish regiments and of Irish officers of British regiments who have fallen in action, or who have been mentioned for distinuished conduct from August 1914 to July 1916 : together with a brief military history of the chief events of the war in which Irish regiments were engaged. (London Stamp Exchange, 1988) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wellington's Army, 1809-1814, by Charles Oman (Gutenberg ebook)

• Celebrities of the army (G. Newnes, 1902), by Charles N. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Advice to the officers of the British Army (Agathynian Club, 1867), by Francis Grose, George Townshend Townshend, and John Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The East India military calendar; containing the services of general and field officers of the Indian Army. (Parbury and Allen, 1823), by John Philippart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Duties of an officer in the field and principally of light troops, whether cavalry or infantry (Printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton, 1801), by baron Gross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The supersession of the colonels of the Royal Army / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (Henry S. King & Co., 65 Cornhill & 12 Paternoster Row, 1873), by Augustus Henry Archibald Anson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of the colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, and ensigns of His Majesty's forces on the British establishment, with the dates of their several Commissions as such, and also the dates of the first commissions which such colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors, captains, and lieutenants had in the army ; Also, a list of the colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, and ensigns of His Majesty's forces on the Irish establishment ... . (T. Cox, 1740), by Great Britain War Office and William Yonge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anno quinquagesimo quarto Georgii III Regis. Cap. CLXII, An act for settling and securing an annuity on Lord Beresford and the persons to whom the title of Lord Beresford shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services. (29th July 1814.). (Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1814), by Great Britain, Andrew Strahan, Charles Eyre, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement of the circumstances attending the death of Wilfred D. Speer, Esq. with copies of testimony and correspondence (s.n.], 1867), by Courtenay F. Terry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement of facts relative to Captain Le Breton's claims (s.n., 1832), by J. Le Breton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of Edward Drewe, late major of the Thirty-fifth Regiment of Foot. (Printed by B. Thorn and Son, 1782), by Edward Drewe, William L. Clements, and Great Britain. Army. Court-martial (Drewe : 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters from the peninsula, 1808-1812, by William Warre, ed. by Edmond Warre (Gutenberg ebook)

• Journal of Herbert Edward Pretyman written during his expedition to the Kittar Mountains, between Kenneh (on the Nile) and the Red Sea, 1891, by Herbert Edward Pretyman, contrib. by Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer (Gutenberg ebook)

• The roll of the drum (G. Routledge and Sons, 1882), by R. Mounteney Jephson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hector Graeme, by Evelyn Brentwood (Gutenberg ebook)

• Rules and regulations for the cavalry. (J. Walter, 1795), by Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tactical operations for field officers : being up-to-date schemes worked out on training-grounds at home stations (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1903), by Wilkinson J. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• British commanders in the Transvaal War, 1899-1900. (W. D. & H. O. Wills, 1900), by W.D. & H.O. Wills (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Officers in the army, The law relating to. (Parker, 1855), by Harris Prendergast (page images at HathiTrust)

• Royal military chronicle (J. Davis, 1811) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A List of the officers of the Army : (with an alphabetical index) of the officers of the Royal Artillery, the Engineers, the Marine Forces : and of the officers on half-pay; : and a succession of colonels. (War-Office, 1784), by Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monthly Army list. (War Office, in the 18th century), by Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes from the front (Printed for H. M. Stationary office, by Harrison and sons, 1914), by Great Britain War Office General Staff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Knowledge for war, every officer's handbook for the front. (Harrison and sons, 1916), by Basil Charles Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The regimental companion : containing the pay, allowances and relative duties of every officer in the British service (Printed for T. Egerton ... by C. Roworth ..., 1811), by Charles James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The detachment officers' aide memoire and regimental officers' vade mecum. (Lewis], 1870), by Rawdon Macnamara (page images at HathiTrust)
• The regimental companion; containing the relative duties of every officer in the British Army; and rendering the principles of system and responsibility familiar. (T. Egerton, 1800), by Charles James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The regimental companion; containing the relative duties of every officer in the British Army; and rendering the principles of system and responsibility familiar. Supplement. (T. Egerton, 1807), by Charles James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes for commanding officers : issued to students at the senior officers' school, Aldershot, 1917 : (5th course). (Printed by Gale & Polden, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes from the front. (Printed for H.M. Stationary Office, by Harrison and Sons, 1914), by Great Britain War Office General Staff (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1899), ed. by Spenser Wilkinson, contrib. by Frederick Sleigh Lord Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers (popular edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), ed. by Spenser Wilkinson, contrib. by Frederick Sleigh Lord Roberts (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• George the First's Army, 1714-1727 (2 vols; London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1910-1912), by Charles Dalton
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• Memoirs of British generals distinguished during the peninsular war. By John William Cole. (R. Bentley, 1856), by John William Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent British military commanders (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1831), by G. R. Gleig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some British soldiers in America (H. Rees, ltd., 1914), by W. H. Wilkin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lawrence and the Arabian adventure. (Garden city, N.Y., 1928), by Robert Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wellington's men : some soldier autobiographies: Kincaid's "Adventures in the Rifle brigade"; "Rifleman Harris"; Anton's "Military life"; Mercer's "Waterloo," (Smith, Elder, & co., 1900), by W. H. Fitchett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wellington's lieutenants (Smith, Elder, & co., 1902), by Alexander Innes Shand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addiscombe : its heroes and men of note (Archibald Constable and Co., 1894), by Henry Meredith Vibart and Frederick Sleigh Lord Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Royal Berkshire militia : (now 3rd battalion Royal Berks regiment). (Printed for the authoress by J. Hawkes, 1897), by Emma Elizabeth Thoyts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Afghan campaigns, of 1878-1880 (S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882), by S. H. Shadbolt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Major General Sir Charles Macgregor (Blackwood, 1888), by Charles Metcalfe MacGregor and Charlotte Macgregor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The East India military calendar; containing the services of general and field officers of the Indian Army. (Parbury and Allen, 1823), by John Philippart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of Indian officers : illustrative of the history of the civil and military service of India (Strahan, 1867), by John William Kaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sepoy generals, Wellington to Roberts (W. Blackwood, 1901), by George Forrest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of His Grace Arthur, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Wellington ... with copious details and delineations, historical, political, and military, of the various important services in which he has been engaged in ... (Printed by and for J. and J. Cundee ..., [181-?], in the 1810s), by Francis L. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Charles Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Cromwell to Wellington : twelve soldiers (W. Heinemann, 1907), by Spenser Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The autobiography of Sir Harry Smith : 1787-1819 (J. Murray, 1910), by Harry George Wakelyn Smith and G. C. Moore Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson : his life and diaries (Cassell, 1927), by C. E. Callwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "last post" : a roll of all officers (naval, military or colonial) who gave their lives for their queen, king and country, in the South African War, 1899-1902 (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1903), by Mildred G. Dooner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Cromwell to Wellington: twelve soliders. (Lawrence and Bullen, ltd., 1899), by Spenser Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• British military biography: comprising the lives of the most distinguished commanders, from Alfred to Wellington: connected by an outline of the military history of England, from the earliest period to the present time. (Printed for Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth : with selections from his correspondence (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853), by George Warburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm : late envoy to Persia, and governor of Bombay : from unpublished letters and journals (Smith, Elder and Co., 1856), by John William Kaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and career of Major John André, adjutant-general of the British army in America. (Ticknor and Fields, 1861), by Winthrop Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The naval and military remembrancer : comprising anecdotes and biographies of eminent English heroes (H.G. Bohn, 1844), by W. H. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celebrities of the army. (The Publishers' Syndicate, Ltd., 1900), by Charles N. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heroes of England, stories of the lives of England's warriors by land and sea, (Bickers and son, 1884), by John G. Edgar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent British military commanders ... (Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green [etc.], 1831), by G. R. Gleig (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet J. Wolseley ... (R. Bentley, 1878), by Charles Rathbone Low (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Vincent Sutton : a record of his life together with extracts from his private papers. (Printed by G.W. Jones at the Sign of the Dolphin, 1922), by Richard Vincent Sutton, George William Jones, Mildred Isemonger, and Sign of the Dolphin (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke, G.C.M.G., C.B., C.I.E., colonel-commander of Royal engineers, agent-general of Victoria, Australia (J. Murray, 1905), by R. H. Vetch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B. (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861), by John Clark Marshman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military memoir of the late Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, G.C.H., senior colonel commandant and director general of artillery (Printed for R. and C. Byfield, 1834), by John Macleod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of Indian officers. (A. Strahan & co. [etc.], 1867), by John William Kaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal adventures and anecdotes of an old officer (E. Arnold, 1906), by James Peter Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• General Gordon, the Christian hero (Walter Scott Pub. Co., 1890), by Marianne Farningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir, and Afghanistan; possessing historical or archaeological interest. (Printed at the Punjab Govt. Press, 1910), by Miles Irving and George William De Rhé-Philipe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The narrative of a commuted pensioner. (Printed for the author by J. Starke and co., 1838), by John Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military memoir of the late Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, G. C. H., senior colonel commandant and director general of artillery (Printed for R. and C. Byfield, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celebrities of the army (Publishers' Syndicate, 1900), by Charles N. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The narrative of a commuted pensioner (Printed for the author, by J. Starke, 1838), by John Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs and letters of the late Colonel Armine S.H. Mountain, C. B., aide-de-camp to the Queen and adjutant-general of Her Majesty's forces in India (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858), by Armine S. H. Mountain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., F. R. S., D.C.L. from his notes, conversations, and correspondence (J. Murray, 1863), by S. W. Fullom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs and letters of the late Colonel Armine S.H. Mountain, C. B., aide-de-camp to the Queen and adjutant-general of Her Majesty's forces in India (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857), by Armine S. H. Mountain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Captain M.M. Hammond, rifle brigade (J. Nisbet, 1859), by Egerton Douglas Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Major John André, adjutant-general of the British army in America (D. Appleton, 1871), by Winthrop Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Wellington the restoration of the martial power of Great Britain (Musson, 1907), by Herbert Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The red horizon (McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916), by Patrick MacGill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The profligate soldier, awfully yet mercifully reclaimed an authentic account of private John Jenny, of His Majesty' s 73d Regiment of Foot, who was shot for mutinous conduct, pursuant to the sentence of a general court martial, at Colombo, in the Island of Ceylon, October 27, 1817 (Sold by H.D. M'Leod, ... and C. Bryson ..., 1817), by W. M. Harvard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and career of Major John Andre, adjutant-general of the British army in America. (W. Abbatt, 1902), by Winthrop Sargent and William Abbatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zapisnai︠a︡ knizhka shtabnago ofit︠s︡era vo vremi︠a︡ Russko-I︠A︡ponskoĭ voĭny (V. Berezovskīĭ, 1906), by Ian Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty-one years in India : from subaltern to commander-in-chief (Longmans, Green, 1902), by Frederick Sleigh Lord Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of an officer in the commissariat department of the army : comprising a narrative of the campaigns under his Grace the Duke of Wellington, in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands, in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, & 1815; and a short account of the army of occupation in France, during the years 1816, 1817, & 1818. (Ken Trotman, 1997), by John Edgecombe Daniel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A handbook of British and foreign orders war medals and decorations awarded to the army and navy, chiefly described from those in the collections of A.A. Payne ... of which there are some 2,500. More than 500 of these have been awarded to officers whose services are therein recorded. Illustrated with nearly sixty portraits, orders and medals ... (J.W. Northend, 1911), by Algernon Archibald Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Cromwell to Wellington: twelve soldiers (Lippincott, 1899), by Spenser Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The narrative of a commuted pensioner (Printed for the author, by J. Starke, 1838), by John Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the late Edward Walsh, M.D., physician to His Majesty's forces : with notices of the Canadian Indians, &c. ([publisher not identified], 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel ... 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1921), by Edward Anthony Steel and J. P. Steel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Martial biography, or, Memoirs of the most eminent British military characters, who have distinguished themselves under the English standard, by their splendid achievements in the field of Mars ... . (J. Cundee for T. Hurst, 1804) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli, by Bryan Cooper, contrib. by H. H. Asquith, Arthur James Balfour, Edward Carson, Bryan Thomas Mahon, and John Edward Redmond, illust. by G. Drummond-Fish (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lawrence and the Arabs, by Robert Graves, contrib. by Herry Perry, illust. by Eric Kennington (Gutenberg ebook)
• Brave British soldiers and the Victoria Cross: a general account of the regiments and men of the British Army, and stories of the brave deeds which won the prize "for valour", ed. by Samuel Orchart Beeton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wellington's Men: Some Soldier Autobiographies, ed. by W. H. Fitchett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns, by William Lawrence, ed. by George Nugent-Bankes (Gutenberg ebook)
• General Gordon, Saint and Soldier, by Joseph Wardle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red Horizon, by Patrick MacGill (Gutenberg ebook)

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