Authorities.—Orme's Military Transactions is the principal authority for the history of the war on the English side, next to which the Memoirs of Stringer Lawrence and Wilks's History of Mysore are the most valuable works in elucidation. Colonel Malleson has treated the subject from the French side in The French in India, to which may be added his two short lives of Clive and Dupleix, and his Decisive Battles of India. Malleson's work, however, requires to be carefully checked, since it contains more than a few inaccuracies of detail, and betrays marks of haste if not of carelessness. The French sources of information are enumerated by him.
A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 / First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War
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The volume surveys the British Army's evolution between the early 18th century and the close of the Seven Years' War, balancing domestic politics, administrative reform, and military operations. It examines reductions and expansions of the establishment, controversies over purchase and discipline, the Secretary-at-War's influence, and reforms such as the establishment of artillery and Highland regiments. Campaign narratives range from colonial expeditions and Caribbean calamities to continental battles of the Austrian Succession and the suppression of the Jacobite rising, and extend to Anglo-French rivalry in India and North America, showing how political faction, logistical failings, and colonial needs shaped organization and performance.