The Health Of 'John Company' Armies, 1825-1845: Colonel William Sykes, Statistical Accountant

摘要

Colonel William Henry Sykes has previously featured in the Military History Journal (Talbot, P A, 'Costing the British and French armies of 1864' in MHJ, Vol 13 No 4, December 2005, pp 148-53) and this paper has arisen from further research on Sykes's statistical scrutiny of military matters. The paper is concerned with Sykes's earlier statistical accounting analysis performed on the armies of the East India Company prior to the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857-8 (The author acknowledges the assistance of the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections in providing a copy of Sykes's original paper).