American Civil War fiction

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It is also the most densely populated area in Belgium. Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups or Communities: It was developed and published by Infogrames. The player basically acts out the Civil War, choosing to play as either the North or the South.

The player may choose to start the game year from the year the Civil War erupted to Each year has a different array of armies and states that each side starts with. For example, it features parodies of national anthems, which are accessible when the player selects one of the different languages supported by the game: English, French, Spanish, German or Italian. In addition, the game is filled with numerous comical situations and gags. This is a list of horses and ponies in fictional subjects, excluding hybrid fantasy creatures such as centaurs and unicorns; their cousins, donkeys and zebras; and cross-breed mules and zebroids.

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However, some creators of comic strips are also found here, as are some of the early innovators of the art form. The list is sorted by the country of origin of the authors, although they may have published, or now be resident in other countries. Quantrill's Raiders were the best-known of the pro-Confederate partisan guerrillas also known as "bushwhackers" who fought in the American Civil War. Early in the war Missouri and Kansas were nominally under Union government control and became subject to widespread violence as groups of Confederate bushwhackers and anti-slavery Jayhawkers competed for control.

The town of Lawrence, Kansas, a center of anti-slavery sentiment, had outlawed Quantrill's men and jailed some of their young women. In August Quantrill led an attack on the town, killing more than civilians, supposedly in retaliation for the casualties caused when the women's jail had collapsed.

The Confederate government, which had granted Quantrill a field commission under the Partisan Ranger Act, was outraged and withdrew support for such irregular forces. By Quantrill had lost control of the group, which split up into small bands. David Morgan-Mar's Irregular Webcomic! Photo comics are a form of sequential storytelling that uses photographs rather than illustrations for the images, along with the usual comics conventions of narrative text and word balloons containing dialogue.

They are sometimes referred to in English as fumetti, photonovels, and similar terms. The photographs may be of real people and scenes, or posed dolls or other toys on sets. Although far less common than illustrated comics, photo comics have filled certain niches in various places and times.

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For example, they have been used to adapt popular film and television works into print, tell original melodramas, and provide medical education. Photo comics have been popular at times in Italy and Latin America, and to a lesser extent in English-speaking countries. Terminology The terminology used to describe photo comics is somewhat inconsistent and idiosyncratic.

Fumetti is an Italian word literally "little puffs of smoke", in Having endured a tempestuous childhood before later becoming a schoolteacher, Quantrill joined a group of bandits who roamed the Missouri and Kansas countryside apprehending escaped slaves. Later on this group became Confederate soldiers, who were referred to as "Quantrill's Raiders". This group was a pro-Confederate partisan ranger outfit best known for their often brutal guerrilla tactics, which made use of effective Native American field skills.

Also notable, William's group included the infamous young Jesse James and his older brother Frank James. Quantrill is often noted as influential in the minds of many bandits, outlaws and hired guns of the Old West as it was being settled. This is a list of comic book sidekicks—defined as a character who spends a significant amount of time as a superhero's junior partner, or was officially acknowledged as the hero's sidekick for some period of time.

For the purposes of this list, it does not include animal companions like Krypto or Sandman's owls, or supervillain henchmen like The Joker's Harley Quinn. Traveller — was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's most famous horse during the American Civil War. He was a grey American Saddlebred of 16 hands, notable for speed, strength and courage in combat. Lee acquired him in February , and rode him in many battles. Traveller outlived Lee by only a few months, and had to be shot when he contracted untreatable tetanus.

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An American Saddlebred, he was of Grey Eagle stock;[2] as a colt, he took the first prize at the Lewisburg, Virginia fairs in and It was Captain Semmes' intention to drydock his ship and receive repairs at the French port. Alabama had been pursued for two years by the scre This is a list of comic books, by country. Belgian comics are a distinct subgroup in the comics history, and played a major role in the development of European comics,[1] alongside France with whom they share a long common history. While the comics in the two major language groups and regions of Belgium Flanders with the Dutch language and Wallonia with French each have clearly distinct characteristics, they are constantly influencing one another, and meeting each other in Brussels and in the bilingual publication tradition of the major editors.

Notable events of in comics. See also List of years in comics. DC Comics art director and soon-to-be editorial director Carmine Infantino is given the mandate to revitalize DC in the wake of rival Marvel Comics' pop-culture success. Orlando is put in charge of DC's horror and suspense titles.

Tom Wilson's Ziggy makes its debut. He also made two episodes of Tif et Tondu. He studied drawing and painting in a private school in Monceau-sur-Sambre after he finished his secondary studies. This series ran for three episodes: La Poudre silencieuse, La Franco-Belgian comics are one of the main groups of comics, together with the American and British comic books and the Japanese manga.

Comics which are not created in French but in Dutch are sometimes included and sometimes excluded from the Franco-Belgian comics. For this list, a broad definition is taken, including all notable comics series first published by a French or Belgian publisher, no matter what language or nationality the authors have. For series with many different authors e. Spirou and Fantasio , only the most important authors have been included. Magazine ad for a Sammy book, featuring the stars of the series: Jack Attaway seated with a Tommy gun and Sammy Day, with highlights from their early adventures Sammy is a popular humour Belgian comics series.

It first started in in the weekly comic Spirou magazine, it has been published in book form, and even been the subject of several omnibus editions by Dupuis. Set mainly in s Chicago, the series centres on freelance bodyguards Jack Attaway and his sidekick Sammy Day. Their assignments have them protecting people from all walks of life, from young children to celebrities, fighting gangsters both at home and abroad and even facing elements of fantasy and science-fiction.

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