Marengo (horse)

An Arabian breed, greyish-white coat, Marengo was probably bred at the famous El Naseri stud.

Petre brought the horse back to the United Kingdom and sold him on to Lieutenant-Colonel Angerstein of the Grenadier Guards.

He eventually died aged 38 and his skeleton (minus two hooves) was preserved and later passed to the Royal United Services Institute and is now on display at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London.

[1] One of the remaining hooves was given to the officers of the Brigade of Guards by John Julius Angerstein as a snuff box.

The Duke of Wellington was asked to disinter his own horse, Copenhagen, to be exhibited alongside Marengo, but refused to do so.