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- ↑ Cannon, Richard (1849). Historical Record of the Fifty-Third, or the Shropshire Regiment of Foot. London: Parker, Furnivall and Parker. p. 3.
- ↑ Cannon, Richard (1849). Historical Record of the Fifty-Third, or the Shropshire Regiment of Foot. London: Parker, Furnivall and Parker. p. xxxv.
- ↑ "No. 13582". The London Gazette. 15–19 October 1793. p. 913.