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• Abraham in arms, or, The first religious general with his army engaging in a war for which he had wisely prepared and by which not only an eminent victory was obtained, but a blessing gained also / delivered in an artillery-election-sermon, June 3, 1678, by S. N. (Boston [Mass.] : Printed by John Foster, 1678), by Samuel Nowell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The necessity of a well experienced souldiery, or, A Christian common wealth ought to be well instructed & experienced in the military art delivered in a sermon, upon an artillery election June the 10th, 1675, by J.R. (Cambridg[e] [Mass.] : Printed by Samuel Green, 1679), by J. R. (John Richardson) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Le livre d'or de l'infanterie de la marine. (H. Charles-Lavauzelle, 1891), by Victor Nicolas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quelques mots sur les institutions et l'esprit militaires, au point de vue politique et social, à propos du service au titre étranger et du vote de l'Armée (Garnier, 1850), by H. Redon de Beaupreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• La légion étrangère et le droit international. (Impr. E. Thomas, 1913), by Charles Poimiro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les corps francs et les troupes exotiques au cours de la guerre actuelle (E. Privat, 1917), by A. Mérignhac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Généraux et soldats d'Afrique (Plon, 1885), by capitaine Blanc (page images at HathiTrust)
• À propos d'un jugement sur les "Français d'Indochine". (Revue Indochinoise, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les troupes de la marine et l'armée coloniale devant le pays. Questions de bonne organisation et d'économie de sang et d'argent. (L. Baudoin et ce, 1883), by Ancien officier supérieur (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spahis, turcos et goumiers (Challamel Ainé :, 1864), by Florian Pharaon (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Algérie et l'assimilation des indigènes musulmans : étude sur l'utilisation des ressources militaires de l'Algérie (H. Charles-Lavauzelle, 1903), by Capitaine Passols (page images at HathiTrust)

• Almanach-annuaire du marsouin 1894 (Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, 1894), by Ned Noll (page images at HathiTrust)

• Almanach-annuaire du marsouin 1894 (Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, 1894), by Ned Noll (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les troupes coloniales (J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1897), by Ferdinand Burot and Maximilien Albert Henri André Legrand (page images at HathiTrust)

• Unvergessenes heldentum. (Kolonialwarte (Agencia Duems), 1924), by Dresden Deutscher Kolonialkrieger-bund (page images at HathiTrust)

• By His Excellency Coll. Benjamin Fletcher, captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York, &c. A proclamation[.] Whereas for the ease and conveniency of the fuzileers that were in His Majesties service upon the fronteers of the province ... such persons as have credited the said fuzillers [sic], on account of their said pay, to bring in their tickets or accounts, to the accountant general ... Given at Fort William Henry, the first day of August, annoq; Domini 1696. ([New York] : Printed by William Bradford, printer to the Kings Excellent Majesty at the Bible in New-York, 1696), by New York (State). Governor (1692-1698 : Fletcher) and Benjamin Fletcher (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The Christian soldier's duty; the lawfulness and dignity of his office; and the importance of the Protestant cause in the British colonies, stated and explained. A sermon, preached April 5, 1757. In Christ-Church, Philadelphia, to the First Battalion of His Majesty's Royal American Regiment; at the request of their colonel and officers. / By William Smith, A.M. provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. ; To which is annexed, a prayer on the same occasion. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by James Chattin., 1757. (Price one shilling.)), by William Smith and John Stanwix (HTML at Evans TCP)

• 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)

• Les Troupes de Couleur à la Guerre (in French; Paris: Dubois, 1918), by Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (page images here at Penn)
• Stray notes on military training and khaki warfare (Women's Printing Society, 1913), by Charles Henry Brownlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stray notes on military training and khaki warfare. ([London], 1913), by Charles Henry Brownlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonials in South Africa, 1899-1902, their record, based on the despatches (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1907), by John Stirling (page images at HathiTrust)
• British dependencies : return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons ... for, "Returns showing the forces stationed in the British dependencies, and the expenditure incurred for their defence by the imperial and colonial governments. (s.n.], 1858), by Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of the Maltese corps of the British army (W. Clowes and sons, 1897), by Alexander George Chesney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical record of the Fourth "Prince of Wales' own" regiment, Madras light cavalry. (Printed by C. Foster at the Foster Press, 1877), by W. J. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land forces of the British colonies & protectorates (His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1905), by Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of "J" battery, Royal horse artillery (formerly A troop, Madras horse artillery) Compiled from private and official records. (Printed by C. Good, 1898), by Guilbert Edward Wyndham Malet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of the XIII Madras infantry (W. Thacker ;, 1898), by Robert Pilkington Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of the officers who have served in the Madras artillery, from its formation in 1748 down to 1861, in which year it was amalgamated with the Royal artillery; giving the dates of their appointment, promotion, retirement, death, etc. (W.H. Lead, 1900), by John H. Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The detachment officers' aide memoire and regimental officers' vade mecum. (Lewis], 1870), by Rawdon Macnamara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadians in the imperial naval and military service abroad (Williamson, 1891), by J. Hampden Burnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the vital statistics of the European and native armies in India; interspersed with suggestions for the eradication and mitigation of the preventible and avoidable causes of sickness and mortality amongst imported and indigenous troops. (Smith, Elder, 1859), by Joseph Ewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• East India (Military) Papers relating to the support offered by the princes and peoples of India to His Majesty in connection with the war ... (H.M. Stationery off., Darling and son, limited [printers], 1914), by Great Britain India Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadians in the Imperial Naval and military service abroad (Williamson, 1891), by J. Hampden Burnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regimental history, 1914-1920, 93rd Burma infantry. (W. Lewis, printers, 1921), by India. Army. 93rd Burma Infantry (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the history of 'F' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. (Printed by Spottiswoode, 1905), by Francis William Stubbs and A. S. Tyndale-Biscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the land & air forces of the British oversea dominions, colonies, protectorates & mandated territories (Exclusive of India and Iraq) (H.M. Stationery Off., 1928), by Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs and services of the Eighty-Third Regiment, (County of Dublin), from 1793 to 1863 including the campaigns of the regiment in the West Indies, Africa, the Peninsula, Ceylon, Canada and India (Smith, Elder, 1863), by Edward William Bray (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Queen's errands (I. Pitman, 1906), by Philip H. M. Wynter (page images at HathiTrust)

• The true interest of Great-Britain, in regard to the trade and government of Canada, Newfoundland, and the coast of Labrador shewing the absurdity of appointing military and naval officers to rule over a commercial people, and the great uneasiness and prejudice that is occasioned by such unnatural appointments, which are made more through interest than merit (Printed for J. Williams ..., 1767), by Untainted Englishman (page images at HathiTrust)
• General order His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty to make the following promotions, appointments, removals, &c. in the army serving in British North America .. (s.n., 1815), by Great Britain. Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organization, equipment, despatch and service of Canadian contingents during the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. (Printed by S.E. Dawson, 1902), by Canada Department of Militia and Defence (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bombay Field Force, 1880 (R.B. Johnson, 1900), by John Hills (page images at HathiTrust)
• War with the Sikhs (J. Ollivier, 1846), by Harry George Wakelyn Smith, Hugh Gough Gough, and Henry Hardinge Hardinge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years in India, in the 16th Queen's Lancers, and three years in South Africa, in the Cape Corps Levies first Afghan Campaign, the Maharatta War, the Sheik War, including battles of Ghuznee, Cabul, Maharajpoor, Buddewal, Aliwal, Sobraon, and Kaffir War of 1850-51 : replete with anecdotes, incidents inseparable from military life, manners and customs of the several Indian races, Mahomedans, Hindoos and Kaffir tribes, tales of elephant hunting, etc., etc. (Hunter, Rose, 1880), by W. J. D. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes in a soldier's life being a connected narrative of the principal military events in Scinde, Beeloochistan and Affghanistan, during 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 and 1843, under Generals Lord Keane, Brooks, Sir R. Sale, Wiltshire, Pollock, Nott, England, M'Caskill and Sir C. Napier (R. & C. Chalmers;, 1848), by J. H. Wilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Years in India, in the 16th Queen's Lancers, and Three Years in South Africa, in the Cape Corps Levies, by W. J. D. Gould (Gutenberg ebook)

• Schetsen uit den Atjeh-oorlog. (W. P. van Stockum, 1889), by J. P. Schoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het Nederlandsch Oost-Indisch leger ter westust van Sumatra. (1819-1845). (G. Muller, 1852), by Hendrik Merkus Lange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naam- en ranglijst der officieren en reserveofficieren van het Koninklijke Nederlandsche Leger en van de officieren van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indische Leger. (Gorinchem., between 1000 and 1999), by Netherlands. Ministerie van Oorlog and Netherlands. Ministerie van Defensie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tijdschrift voor het Nederlandsch-Indisch leger. (Soerabaya., 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het Nederlandsch Oost-Indisch leger ter westkust van Sumatra, 1819-1845. (Muller, 1854), by Hendrik Merkus Lange (page images at HathiTrust)

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