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Posted on 2nd Jul at 1:07 AM, with 9 notes
What was the name of Napoleon’s horse?

vivasantiago:

The answer most people look for when presented with this question is “Marengo,” but the idea that Marengo was his favorite and/or his only mount is a gross misconception.  To clarify, below is a list of all of Napo’s horses, alternate spellings separated by commas and their nicknames in parentheses.

  • Aboukir
  • Ali, Aly, Ally (Marengo)
  • Arabella
  • Artaxerces
  • Babylonien
  • Bacha
  • Belle
  • Bijou
  • Bonaparte, Buonaparte (Numid, Numide)
  • Bouffon
  • Breant
  • Calvados
  • Cerbere
  • Chiek, Chiekh
  • Cid
  • Coceyre
  • Conquerant
  • Coquet
  • Cordoue (Cuchillero)
  • Courtois
  • Curde
  • Cirus, Cyrus (Wagram)
  • Desire
  • Desiree
  • Distingue
  • Embelli
  • Emir
  • Epicurien
  • Estime
  • Euphrates
  • Extreme
  • Familier
  • Favori
  • Folatre
  • Friedland
  • Gessner
  • Gisors
  • Gonsalvo, Gonsalve
  • Hahim
  • Harbet
  • Helavert
  • Heliopolis
  • Hericle
  • Hippogriffe
  • Ingenu (Wagram)
  • Intendant (Coco)
  • Jaffa
  • Kurde
  • Labrade, Labrador
  • Leonore
  • Lowska
  • Lutzelberg
  • Lydienne
  • Lyre
  • Major
  • Marie (Zina)
  • Mon Cousin (Wagram, Austerlitz)
  • Montevideo
  • Moscou (Tcherkes)
  • Naiade
  • Nankin
  • Naturalist
  • Naufrage
  • Nausicaa
  • Navigateur
  • Navire
  • Neron
  • Nickel
  • Ninon
  • Roitelet I
  • Roitelet II
  • Russe
  • Sagonte
  • Sahara
  • Sara
  • Selim
  • Styrie
  • Sultan
  • Tamerlan I
  • Tamerlan II
  • Tauris, Taurus
  • Timide
  • Triomphant
  • Vizir, Vizier
  • Wurzbourg

Not only did Napoleon have a habit of naming horses after successful battles, but he also favoured Arabian greys, which makes identification of any single horse’s presence at a battle difficult.

  1. imaginationrulesleworld reblogged this from vivasantiago and added:
    Napoleon had hella many horseys
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  4. cuppa-darjeeling said: Meanwhile Jefferson’s were things like General, Crabb (like the apple), and Maab.
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