Marengo
Horse
Marengo is the most famous of Napoleon's many horses. Named for Napoleon's success at the Battle of Marengo in 1800, the horse carried Napoleon in several subsequent battles and is often thought to be the horse portrayed in Jacques-Louis David's famous 1801 painting titled Napoleon Bonaparte Crossing the Alps. Marengo was captured by the British after the Battle of Waterloo and proudly displayed in England. After the horse's death its skeleton was put on display in the National Army Museum. In 2000 Marengo was the topic of a book, Jill Hamilton's Marengo: the Myth of Napoleon's Horse.Marengo and Napoleon appear with Roy Rogers and Trigger in our loop Seven Horses of Highly Effective People.
Four Good Links
The National Army Museum
Where Marengo's skeleton resides
The Napoleon Series
2000 review of Jill Hamilton's book, with good detail on ol' Marengo
Marengo's Grave
A truncated biography, but with a good clean shot of the poor guy's skeleton
Marengo Revisited
Not about the horse, but about the battle that give him his name
