William Cotton Oswell was an English explorer. He was born in 1818 at Leytonstone and died in 1893. He spent ten years from 1837 to 1847 as an official of the East India Company in Madras. Then he made successful expeditions into the regions north of the Cape Colony. He organised the transport and commissariat for Livingstone's expedition and shared in the expedition to the Zambezi in 1851. During the Crimean War he worked in the hospitals. Research William Oswell
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