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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Stephens, Henry Morse (1887). "Collins, John (d.1807)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 371. endnotes: - Dodwell and Miles's List of Officers for the Indian Army;
- Wellesley and Wellington Despatches;
- Pearce's Life of Lord Wellesley;
- Kaye's Life of Lord Metcalfe;
- Lady Minto's Lord Minto in India;
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