Series CB1 - Army returns companies and casualties,

Weekly, monthly and general returns of troops, ordnance, ammunition sepoys, lascars, coolies and artificers etc. relating to the various companies making up the East India Company’s army for the years [c. 1750s], 1760 and 1764-1767 with the notable exception of one return [c. 1757] relating to French army casualties. The companies’ returns include a roll, [c. 1750s], of the detachment of the Company’s troops victualled by Ensign Davies at Trivady [presumably during the war in the Carnatic known also as Dupleix’s war, 1749-1754], a return, 1760, of troops, etc., at Rajmahal under the command of Major John Caillaud (1724-1812), [presumably during the defence of Patna, 1759-1761], and returns, 1765-1767, of the three brigades established by Clive’s reforms of the military under the commands of Sir Robert Barker, General Carnac and Colonel Richard Smith and stationed at Patna and Allahabad. There are also returns, 1764 and [1765?], of the Company’s troops on board the Prince of Wales (at the Cape of Good Hope) and the Speke. The returns are mostly statistical but sometimes give the names of the troops and even their country of origin. The casualty return relates to the numbers of French killed and wounded at Chandernagore, [post 1757, March 23].