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- ↑ "The Gambia". World Statesmen. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ↑ Hart, H.G. (1842). The New Army List. London: John Murray. p. 156.
- ↑ Gray, J.M. (1940). History of the Gambia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 320.
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