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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote 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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