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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Ballard | | First Name(s) | John Archibald | | Year of Birth | 1830 | | Year of Death | 1880 | | Entry | Born June 20, 1830 : son of a Calcutta merchant : educated at Addiscombe : joined the Bombay Engineers in 1850 : on his way to England in 1854, he went to Constantinople, and joined the Turkish Army, as Lt-Colonel, at the siege of Silistria by the Russians, and in the attack on the Russians at Giurgevo : in the Crimean campaign, including the siege of Sebastopol, the operations at Eupatoria and the occupation of Kertch : he also commanded a Turkish Brigade in Omar Pasha's campaign in Mingrelia : was conspicuous for his cool bravery in action : C.B., 1856 : served as A.Q.M.G. in the Persian war of 1856-7, and in the same capacity in the Indian mutiny in the Rajputana Field Force : was Mint-master at Bombay, 1861, and Chairman of the Bombay Port Trust : retired at end of 1878 as Lt-General : wrote articles for Blackwood's Magazine, on Indian subjects : LL.D. of Edinburgh : he died near the battlefield of Thermopylae April 2, 1880. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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