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- ↑ James Ferguson, Papers illustrating the history of the Scots brigade, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 50.
- ↑ James Ferguson, Papers illustrating the history of the Scots brigade, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 170.
- ↑ David Dobson, Scots-Dutch Links in Europe and America, 1575-1825, vol. 1 (Baltimore, 2004), p. 100.