After the Civil War, many officers from the Confederate army began renting their services to foreign rulers. One armed General William Wing Loring was a career soldier who fought for Egypt against the Ethiopia. They lost the war. google.com/books/edition/… 
On the other side was John Kirkham who fought in the Crimea, with William Walker in Nicaragua and Chinese Gordon. He came to Abyssinia with the punitive expedition and stayed. Kirkham advised Yohannes IV but was captured and put in a cage..and died. .tigraionline.com/john_kirkham.h…
The post civil war era reminds me of today when Iraq and Afghan vets flow into the Middle East and Africa to train up and enhance ruler's. Add to that the low level glut of Syrians, Sudanese and Russians... 2022 will be interesting. Here is a ripping yarn: nam.ac.uk/explore/abyssi…
Trivia: "Roughly a quarter to a third of the Union Army was foreign-born, or 543,000–625,000 out of 2 million troops; an additional 18% had at least one parent born abroad, meaning close to half the Northern army had some foreign origin." time.com/3940428/civil-…
For lazy history fans I highly recommend the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser. If your haven't binge read these hilarious books, then you are missing out on how history should be taught. Would also be an amazing Netflix series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashman_…
My book on Kony requires reading the history of Africa as it relates to outsiders running around doing crazy things. In addition to ground work, I read only first hand books by folks starting with tomes from the library of Alexandria to obscure diaries gutenberg.org/files/8815/881…
Trivia: Some of the most interesting work from this period was about Americans and Europeans being held as slaves in Africa. Ripping yarns like "Horrors of Slavery: Or, The American Tars in Tripoli" by William Ray pdfroom.com/books/horrors-…
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