The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-11-13
NAPOLE0N'S HORSES.
The Skeletons of Some Of Them
Still Preserved.
rm.tee- Animals Killed Under the Grea'
Soldier from Arc,Ia to water
too ync Names OF His
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Hon. Francis Lawley, son of Lord
Nenlock. published the other day IN
Dailv's Magazine an interesting ac-
count of the horses that were mounted
by Napoleon in his principal campaigns
and the Figaro republishcd the article
with some comments and corrections.
In conversation between Napoleon
and Barry O'Meara at st. Helena the
great prisoner states that the closest
shave he ever had in battle was at Ar
cola, where his horse, maddened by a
wound. ran away with him toward the
Austrian lines, and finally plunged INTO
a marsh, where he came very near DC
ing captured by the enemy.
In all Napoleon had nineteen horses
killed under him from Arcoia 10 water
loo Marshal Blucher claimed TO nave
lost the same number in his campaigns,
and Cen Forrest, of the confederate
army, according TO Mr.. Lawley, had no
less than thirty horses shot under MN
during the four years OF the reDcliioh'
1t appears that nearly all Napoleon
war horses Were either white or gray.
The most famous were Marengo' the
charger that he rode at Waterloo; Aus
terlitz. Marie. Ali and Jatfa. MarengoS
skeleton is Mt present in the military III
stitute OF Whitehall, London, ana one
of his shoes. made into snuitooN' Is
in the mess-room of the officers OF the
guard in ST. James palace. Upon the
silver cover Of the shoe, the gitt OF Col
Anrerstein 10 his comrades, Is the fol-
lowing inscription:
shoe OF Murcugo the wur horse that be
longed to Napoleon. and mounted 10y MN al
MarenEo. AuFtcrilz, Jena. NasF"Hi' N TIC
..t at s.f .aT.D
Around the shoe there is this inscrip-
ton:
Nareugo was wounded in the left haunch
when his master rode him ~ waterloo on tue
suukeu road ~ the uutlostS
But it appears that he was slso
wounded in the preceding battles, and
here the Figaro remarks that II the
above inscription is correct in its state
nents Napolcou must have used that
horse for fifteen years, from Marcng"
TO Waterloo, which seems very doubt
ful. There is no doubt, however, that
Marenro was the horse that Napoleon
rode at Waterloo and that carried him
TO Charlcroi after the battle, but how
the horse came To end his days IN Eng
land has not vet been fully revealed.
The supposition is that he was taken
there along with Jaifa 10y the French
man who leased some property at Glas-
senburg in Kent, and who was once
great friend of NupOleon'S but whose
name is now forgotten. The greatest
care possible was taken of the old
horse. who died in ls2a, at the venerable
age of thirty-sevcu years. In the park
on the GlasscnburE property there Is
little column with the following;
Undrr this stone lies Jana, the celebrated
wa horse OF Napoleon. Aged thirty seven years
There is some confusion and probably
exaggcration in regard TO the names Of
the horses mounted by Napoleon in his
different battles. But SAYS the
Figaro, 1T j. quite probable that the
two horses. Narengo and Ali, were rid
den by Napoleon the same day"
According to Nine. de Rcmusat Ma
day, which perhaps explains the con
tradiction of the legend which gives
Marcngo the honor Of carrying Ma
poleou at Austerlitz, in the memoirs of
Gen. Noudamme, which speaks of q
steel-gray Arab horse as the one that
he rode at that time, and which was
baptized 'Austcrlitz' Immediately after
the victory. 1t is certain that Napoleon
had 4 horse of that description, and
portrait of the animal is at present in
the residence of Lord Rose berry.
As for Marie. her skeleton is at
present in the old castle of Ivenach,
where the heirs of the Baron Won Pies
son prpspry-s II