1864. The USS Kearsarge, a Union warship, puts in at the port of Amsterdam. Its mission in Europe: to stop the predations of the Alabama, a confederate privateer that’s been preying on the transatlantic trade. Aboard are Blutch and Chesterfield, threatened with a firing squad by an irascible general, and sent to lie low in the Navy by their own superiors. Soon, the Alabama is spotted, and the Union ship rushes to intercept it. The confrontation will take place in the English Channel!
Two companies are competing to build the intercontinental railway. When one sends saboteurs to intercept the powder needed to pierce tunnels through the mountains, the other calls upon Lucky Luke to protect a last chance convoy. The problem is, it's not powder that gets loaded onto the train this time - it's nitroglycerin! And as if that wasn't enough, the saboteurs are still around ... and the Daltons are convinced the train is full of gold!
Blutch and Chesterfield get away from the 22nd Cavalry and go spend some R&R at... Fort Bow, their old posting on the frontier. That's where Chesterfield's flame Amelia lives-the daughter of Colonel Appleton. But when the cavalrymen arrive, they find the young lady dancing with a dashing young lieutenant. When a young Native American boy gets mixed up in it by mistake, it doesn't take long for the situation to spiral out of control.
"The American Civil War has never been so amusing. Raoul Cauvin and Willy Lambil have a knack for turning the miseries of war into a slapstick routine." Penny Kenny (Comicsbulletin.com)
Childhood is a time to learn about life. We discover love, but also
such things as disease and death. We learn to share and be generous,
but we also learn about the dangers of excesses, greed and gluttony.
In other words, every day is a new adventure - especially when, like
Cedric, you have a somewhat clumsy father, a grumpy but loveable
grandfather ... and a strong-willed almost-girlfriend with an occasionally volatile temper!
General Alexander's Union army is out of horses, and it is now facing none other than Robert E. Lee himself. To rebuild the Northern Cavalry before the coming battle, Blutch and Chesterfield are sent to buy new mounts, with the help of legendary horse trainer Ben "Bronco Benny" Wilcox. But, first, they'll have to cross Rebel lines, face angry Indians, and deal with Benny's fascination with a very special horse named "Traveller"...
While out on patrol, Blutch and Chesterfield encounter an unusual soldier: a woman wearing a Union uniform, who has come to join the army to look for her brother and uphold the family's honour. Blutch is unconvinced, but the sergeant, won over by the combination of bravery and a pretty face, agrees to help her. That, however, means taking her along for Captain Stark's demented charges - a prospect that could drive anyone to shirk their duty or desert...
Sent to scout the enemy, Blutch and Chesterfield are chased by a Confederate patrol and forced to cross the Rio Grande to safety. But that safety is relative: stuck between Apache bandits and Mexican outlaws, our two Bluecoats have no choice but to disguise themselves as civilians - Blutch as a peasant, Chesterfield as a monk. But the nearby village is eagerly awaiting its new `padre', and the villagers aren't fooled by the deception...
After another long day of charging, Blutch and Chesterfield make the acquaintance of Matthew Brady, a professional photographer dispatched by President Lincoln to document the ongoing historic struggle. Photography, still a new invention, together with Brady's talent for capturing the moment, are met with great enthusiasm by both the rank and file and the top brass. Inevitably, it's not long before Blutch and Chesterfield are ordered to act as the artist's protective detail - much to the sergeant's disgust...
Stark's constant, reckless charging has once again depleted the 22nd
Cavalry. Faced with an understandable dearth of volunteers, the
Army's brass drafts - without telling them - some freshly arrived
immigrants. And Blutch and Chesterfield are tasked with instructing
them in the art of riding down the enemy. But there's a problem: the
new recruits only speak Russian! And while those Cossacks are already
fantastic riders, they have no desire to die for the glory of the
Union...
War rages on, and the wounded pile up - including Blutch, courtesy of
Confederate artillery. The Union Army doctors are swamped. In order
to address his shortage of healers, General Alexander brings in a
quartet of female nurses. But while he did also recruit a foul-
tempered `matron' of sorts to discourage anyone more interested in
flirting than doing their duty, he may not have planned for the possibility of one of the nurses falling for a certain small, unruly,
bald corporal ...
A quiet day in the Union Army ... Soldiers are resting, Blutch and
Chesterfield are arguing, and the generals are plotting strategy.
Things change suddenly with the arrival of a new regiment, sent as
reinforcements to counter the imminent arrival of the Confederates.
With them is a young dog, Sallie, who's been on every battlefield
with her uniformed masters, and who takes an immediate liking to Chesterfield, to the point that she accompanies him on a dangerous
scouting mission ...
The Civil War rages on. Despite some much-needed victories, losses have been harrowing on the Union side, and volunteers are getting scarce. That leaves conscription, but it’s an extremely unpopular measure – especially because of the possibility to avoid it by paying a sum of money only the rich can afford. Yet the North has little choice but to maintain it … and this is how, in July 1863 in New York City, simmering resentment turns into bloody rioting – with Blutch and Chesterfield caught in the tragic events.
Kolonel Appeltown gaat een paar weken op familiebezoek en laat het fort onder leiding van Kapitein Joyce. Deze windt er geen doekjes om en zet iedere soldaat die ongehoorzaam is in het gevang. Uiteindelijk worden vijf ongehoorzamen in het gevang gezet en moeten Blutch en Chesterfield hun bewaken, echter hebben alle soldaten hun bedenkingen over de methodes van kapitein Joyce. Uiteindelijk deserteren de vijf en de kapitein gaat samen met Blutch en Chesterfield achter ze aan.
La comptabilité est peu connue et mal comprise. L'objet du présent ouvrage est d'expliquer les termes et mécanismes de la comptabilité générale privée des sociétés. Il ne s'agit pas d'élaborer un manuel de comptabilité mais de rendre la comptabilité accessible à tous.
30ste deel van de hilarische avonturen van Agent 212! Arthur, agent
212, is geen superagent en al helemaal geen held. Het liefst zou hij
zijn dagen in zijn fauteuil doorbrengen met zijn hond, Kiki, op
voorwaarde dat zijn schoonmoeder niet in de buurt is. In het
commissariaat vindt hij gelukkig wat rust... Alle missies van Agent 212
draaien uit op een catastrofe, tot groot jolijt van de lezers die dol zijn op de dwaasheden van de sullige agent, in de Frans-Belgische
traditie. 212... het noodnummer dat je moet bellen als je zin hebt om
eens goed te lachen.
Pas de trêve des confiseurs pour l'Agent 212, le champagne peut couler à flots et le fumet de la dinde rôtie lui chatouiller les narines, pas question de baisser la garde : le devoir (et les gaffes) avant tout ! Un best of plein de cotillons, de gags et d'éclats de rire, à consommer sans modération en période de fêtes.
Being a kid can be confusing. The grown ups parents and especially grandparents get up to the craziest antics. School can be counted on to complicate one's life. And then there are the mysteries of love... Trying to court Chen is a constant struggle for Cedric, who has to contend with shyness, misunderstandings, his own jealousy, poachers... Still. Confusing or not, it's so much simpler when you're nine! At least, that's something his grandad would say...
Corps de métier à haut risquePour faire une bonne infirmière, il vous faut : une tête (bien faite) pour ne rien oublier, des jambes (musclées) pour accourir au premier appel des malades, des nerfs (d'acier) pour faire face aux patients les plus exigeants, des bras (puissants) pour ceinturer les plus excités, des pieds (renforcés) pour tenir tête aux casse-pieds, un coeur (d'or) pour savoir consoler et un corps (de garde) pour être toujours prête !Een beroepsgroep met een hoge risicofactorOm een goede verpleegster te zijn, heb je het volgende nodig: een (fraai) hoofd waarin een ijzersterk geheugen huist. (Gespierde) benen, om bij de eerste oproep van een zieke in nood onmiddellijk toe te snellen. (Stalen) zenuwen, om de meest veeleisende patiënt het (fraaie) hoofd te bieden. (Sterke) armen, om de heethoofden in toom te houden. (Stevige) schoenen, om halvezolen op hun plaats te zetten. Een (gouden) hart, om de bedroefden te troosten, en een (gewillig) oor om aan eenieder te lenen.
There's home, and Dad's work, and the parents fighting sometimes. There's school, annoying friends, and the beautiful, unattainable Chen. There's life and its milestones: your first communion, your first dance, your first pet... It's difficult sometimes, for a child. Fortunately, Cedric can always count on his Granddad's wisdom-and occasional partnership in crime-to help him see the brighter side of things and discover what's truly important.
In this volume, Blutch and Chesterfield go up in an observation balloon in order to spy on the Confederate troops. But the plot thickens when our heroes crash land on their superiors. The generals send them behind enemy lines to try and free Stark who has been captured on a previous sortie. A tricky mission, not only for our heroes, but also for the other side.
"The American Civil War has never been so amusing. Raoul Cauvin and Willy Lambil have a knack for turning the miseries of war into a slapstick routine." Penny Kenny (Comicsbulletin.com)
La plupart d'entre nous n'ont jamais fréquenté les hôpitaux que comme patients, sans vraiment soupçonner ce qui arrive dans les coulisses. Et c'est tant mieux. Car, si l'on en croit Bercovici et Cauvin, le petit monde des chirurgiens, infirmières, médecins et autres spécialistes ne manque ni de dévouement, ni de cynisme, ni d'imagination, ni de loufoquerie. Sur un sujet parfois grave, une succession de gags qui réconciliera les patients que nous sommes tous un jour ou l'autre avec le monde hospitalier, qui a fort à faire pour ne pas perdre la tête.
A thematic map is a map that illustrates more than simply geographical relationships or locations, but rather also portrays themes, patterns, or data relating to physical, social, medical, economic, political, or any other aspect of a region or location. Examples include maps that show variations of population density, climate data, wealth, voting intentions, or life expectancy with geographical location. These tools have become central to the work of scientists, practitioners, and students in nearly every field, from epidemiology to political science, and are familiar to members of the public as a common means of expressing complicated and multivariate information in easily understood graphical formats. This set of three volumes on Thematic Cartography considers maps as information constructs resulting from a number of successive information transformations and the products of decision stages, integrated into a logical reasoning and the order of those choices. It thereby provides a thorough understanding of the theoretical basis for thematic mapping, as well as the means of applying the various techniques and methodologies in order to create a desired analytical presentation. This first volume introduces the basics of thematic cartography. The authors present the transformations necessary to the production - using a scientific approach - of any thematic map. Four stages are detailed: from geographic entities to cartographic objects; the [XY] transformation; the [XYZ] cartographic transformations; and the semiotic transformation. Technical aspects giving map-reading keys are also included.
This series in three volumes considers maps as constructions resulting from a number of successive transformations and stages integrated in a logical reasoning and an order of choices. Volume 2 focuses on the impact of the quantitative revolution, partially related to the advent of the computer age, on thematic cartography.
This humorous series on the American Civil War centres around two cavalrymen in the Unionist Army: Cornelius Chesterfield, a zealous and devoted sergeant and Corporal Blutch, a reluctant soldier, highly critical of authority and who always tries to eschew yet another senseless battle. This highly comical duo does what it can to escape the often obtuse military mindset, absurd orders and the madness of war.
In this volume, the Sergeant obeys the Captain for the first time and ends up in the Marines...
