Fort Wheeling, or simply Wheeling, is the title of a comics set in colonial North America, by Italy comics creator Hugo Pratt.
Publication history
Wheeling first appeared in the
Argentina comics magazine
Misterix in 1962.
The series has since 1972 been reprinted in several editions, among these collections by publishers
Florenzo Ivaldi,
Casterman and Les Humanoïdes Associés.
Synopsis
Patrick Fitzgerald, aristocrat, and Chris Kenton, Virginian, are young soldiers serving on the frontier of Great Britain's American colonies just prior to the American Revolution. During the French and Indian war they fall in love with the beautiful Mohena, a captive rescued from the
Shawnee Indians. When the American Revolution begins, however, the two friends choose different sides.
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