Index talk:The History of the Indian Mutiny volume 1.1.djvu

Some publication history
Dumping some info on this work's publication history here: Significant and seminal Indian Mutiny books were also published in 1857 […]. These included Charles Ball's monumental two-volume The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India; and a Concise History of the great military events which have tended to consolidate British Empire in Hindostan, which was a detailed account of the Indian Mutiny with numerous eyewitness accounts; …

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FYI. --Xover (talk) 11:59, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. None of the information is going to make the identification of the author easy. Charles Ball ... 1857 USA, maybe in New York, or sub-continent, so anything that we can find to geo-locate, or be specific to biographical will be helpful. — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:35, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Flicked through the 2016 article, and it doesn't particularly help. — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:43, 2 November 2019 (UTC)


 * He was "a jobbing historian and journalist who wrote a history of the Risorgimento and of the American War of Independence", according to: Chakravarty, Gautam. The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination (2005). p. 22. The Italian one is apparently Italy Illustrated: A Complete History of the Past and Present Condition of the Italian States (1860) by William C. Stafford and Charles Ball. --Xover (talk) 20:05, 22 June 2022 (UTC)