Napoleon's trusty steed rides again
The skeleton of Marengo, the horse that carried Napoleon into the battles of Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram and WWaterloo, has been painstakingly restored in time for the opening of the new National Army Museum on 30 March. Tiny cracks in the skeleton’s sternum and ribs have been repaired, and debris removed from its surface. Experts have spent two years taking the skeleton apart and reassembling it into a more realistic pose.