Jun 2415 minAfrica During the Scramble: The Great Lakes KingdomsBy Gary Oswald At the beginning of the 19th century, the coast of Africa was well known, but the interior was still a mystery. Maps writt...
May 2713 minAfrica during the Scramble: The Last KingdomBy Gary Oswald In 1868, the British Army invaded Ethiopia in order to free hostages that had been taken by Emperor Tewodros II to force t...
May 1311 minAfrica during the Scramble: The Witch Hunters of MadagascarBy Gary Oswald The exact time Madagascar was first settled by humans is still disputed but most accounts date it to sometime between 200 ...
Apr 2913 minAfrica during the Scramble: The Asian EmpireBy Gary Oswald There were eight European Empires involved in the Scramble. Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and t...
Apr 254 minReview - Fugitives of Fate by T.L. MorganfieldBy Gary Oswald Historical Romances, like all stories set in the past, have a variable level of historical accuracy. Some authors clearly ...
Apr 228 minAfrica During the Scramble: Belgians in the Congo Part IIBy Gary Oswald Leopold’s aim for his colony in Africa was to make money. His efforts in portraying himself as a humanitarian were always ...
Apr 1712 minAfrica during the Scramble: Belgians in the Congo part 1By Gary Oswald The history of Slavery in Africa is one going back thousands of years. In this it's much the same as every other continent...
Apr 135 minReview - The Fall of Rorke's Drift by John LabandBy Gary Oswald Ideas are cheap. Most people can come up with a thousand concepts for books. The skill is in the execution. In bringing th...
Apr 19 minAfrica during the Scramble: The Herero, the Nama and the Germans Part 2By Gary Oswald Warning: This is an article about a Genocide and will be tough reading. As discussed at the end of the last article, the f...
Mar 278 minWhy write Alternative History?By Gary Oswald Sea Lion Press is built around producing Alternative or Alternate History content and implicit in that goal is the assumpt...
Mar 189 minAfrica during the Scramble: The Herero, the Nama and the Germans Part 1By Gary Oswald The residents of the area that is currently the country of Namibia arrived there in a series of different migrations. The ...
Feb 1911 minAfrica during the Scramble: Zulus, Thousands of themBy Gary Oswald In 1951, the word to indicate Z in the phonetic alphabet for radio communication was changed from Zebra to the more distin...
Feb 511 minAfrica during the Scramble: The ChristianBy Gary Oswald Looking at a political Map of Africa in 1870 what is perhaps most striking is how little European control there is. Europe...
Jan 2212 minThe Horrors of Saint Domingo: The Trotsky Option? By Gary Oswald In 1820, in the aftermath of King Henry’s suicide, troops from the Southern Republic of Haiti invaded the Northern Kingdom...
Jan 1510 minThe Horrors of Saint Domingo: Monarchy or Republic? By Gary Oswald The men who would later become Emperor Dessalines, King Henry and President Pétion had all been loyal soldiers of France s...
Jan 28 minThe Horrors of Saint Domingo: The French Connection? By Gary Oswald The goal of the original slave uprising in Haiti was simply that they didn’t want to be slaves anymore. These were people w...
Dec 19, 201911 minThe Horrors of Saint Domingo: An Inevitable Revolution? By Gary Oswald In August 1791 a number of plantation slaves met in the woods of Bois Caïman in North Haiti. That meeting was the starting...
Oct 27, 20198 minVignette Sunday: Lessons from HistoryBy Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a speci...
Oct 17, 20197 minElizabeth I's offer from the Moroccan Sultan By Gary Oswald 1578 - The Portuguese Empire was one of the first and most powerful Global Empires. It ruled land in South America, West...
Aug 15, 20196 minThoughts on Dahomey - 3By Gary Oswald In the previous articles we have discussed the development of Dahomey in the late 19th century as it ran into the limits o...
