Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-09-28
7 NAPOLEON'S HORSES.
The Skeletons of Some Of Them
Still Preserved.
Nineteen Animals Killed Under the Great
SoidIer from ArcOla to Water
Ioo-The Names or His
. vorite0. =

. .
Hon. Francis Law1ey, son of Lord
WcL.,1k, published the other day in
Daily's Magazine an interesting &C
count Of the horses that were mounted
by Napoleon in his principal campaigns,
and the Figaro repubffshed the article
with some comments and corrections.
In a 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
marsh, Where he came very near be-
ing captured by the.enemy. IS
In al Napoleon had nineteen horses
ki:ed under him from Arcola to Water
loo. Marshal Butcher claimed to have
lost the same number in his campaigns,
and Gen. Forrest, of the confederate
army, according to. Dir. Lawley,. had no
less than thirty horses shot under him
during the four years of the rebellion.
1t appears that nearly all Napoleon's
var horses were either white or gray.
Che most famous were Marengo, the
charger that he rode at Waterloo: Aus
terlitA, Marie, Ali and Jaffa. Marengo's
skeleton is ut present in the military in
stitute of Whitehall, London, and one
OF his shoes, MADE into q snufooX, is
in the mcss-roofn of the officers of the
guard in ST, James palace, Upon the,
silver cover Of the shoe, the gift Of Col
AnY-rsteIny to his comrades, is the fol-
loving inscription: q
Shoe OF Murrngo. tho war horse that he.
f'ng1d to Napoleon. and mounted Cy him nj
har". 10. AustsrIitz, Jena. W ssram, In tie
Russ At caii.paign. 3nd ut WaterioO. 4
Around tine shoe there is this ipscrip-
zion: I
HiareERo was wounded in the loft keuncb
wAeun > n.nstnr'rodo him OF Waterloo On the
sunksL rond, III the OutrostS. y Ii IL
But it appears that he was slso
wounded in the preceding battles, and
here the: Figaro rQmarlzs that if the
abuve INSCRIPTION is correct in it's state
mepts Na;"'ieon must have used that
horsc forftifteen years, from Marengn
DO Waterloo, which seems very ,doubt4
Full. There is no doubt, however, that
Marengo. was the horse that Napoleon
rode at Waterloo and that carried him
tO ClRrlcroi after the battle. but how,
Chc horec came to end his days in Eng
land has not yet been fully revealed. ,
The supposition is that he was taken
there along with Jaffa by the French
inaw Who. leased some property ut Glass
serhurg in Kent, and who was once q
great friend of Napolcon's but whose
pa;ne is now forgotten. The greatest
care possible was taken of the old
horse, who died in 1929, at the venerable
age Of thirty-scven years. In tho park
pn the Glasscnbnrg property there is, Il
little column with the following:
Chucr this stone lies JafTa the celebrated
warhorsc OF Napoleon. Aged thirty seven years
There is some confusion and probably
sxaggeration in regard tc the names of
che horses mounted by Napoleon in hi.;
different battles But" SAYS thu
Figaro, lit is quite probable that tie
two horses, Marengo and Ali, were rid
dcn BY Napoleon the same day"
According to Mime. dc Remusat Ma
poleon often tired out four or five horses
day, which perhaps explains the con-
tradiction of the legend which gives
MaVeRgo. the honor of carrying Ma
poleon at Austcrlitz, in the memoirs Of
Gen. Vondamme, which speaks of a
stacl-Gr9y Arab horse as the one that
BE rode at that time. and which was
baptized "Austerlitz" imme thately after
the victory. 1t is certain that Napoleon
hHd horse Of that description, and IL
portrait OF tle animal Is. ut present in
the residence of Lord Roscbery. |r
AZ tor Marie, her Skeleton is ut
crescent III the old castle of Ivenach.
where the heirs Of the Baron Won Pies
sen preserve ii. ..f...5
q. --r-----------------.--. .....