Abbreviations: JSAHR – Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research.
DNB – Dictionary of National Biography.
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–– ‘Sir George Rooke’, DNB, 2004, Volume 42.
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–– Spain in the late Seventeenth Century, 1980.
–– Philip V of Spain, the King who Reigned Twice, 2001.
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Fiction
Woodruff, P, Colonel of Dragoons, 1951. Although a novel, very well researched and with useful details of the capture of Barcelona in 1705, with many genuine contemporary quotes, and judiciously drafted appendices.