Napoleonic Trivia #36 (1 Viewer)

[Grognard]

What was a common trait of all Napoléon's horses?

 

[trooper]

What was a common trait of all Napoléon's horses?

All Arabs? Trooper

 

[blaster]

All trained by Caulancourt, Master of the Horse?

 

[Grognard]

All Arabs? Trooper

Not the answer!

 

[Grognard]

All trained by Caulancourt, Master of the Horse?

Not the answer and Caulaincourt didn't train all his horses...

 

[blaster]

All mares?

 

[trooper]

All named after his victories? Trooper

 

[breslau]

I would have said Arabs but that's not the answer you want. Were they Saddlehorses? Were they all grey in colour?

 

[Sans Culotte]

What was a common trait of all Napoléon's horses?

One thing was that the horses were trained to be less skittish, less animated, shall we say, as Napoleon was not a good rider. He rode like a sack of potatoes on a saddle & sometimes fell off his mounts. Napoleon was a crack shot but was quite the opposite of Wellington (who was, by the way, a poor shot) in the area of horsemanship.

 

[Grognard]

All mares?

All named after his victories? Trooper

I would have said Arabs but that's not the answer you want. Were they Saddlehorses? Were they all grey in colour?

One thing was that the horses were trained to be less skittish, less animated, shall we say, as Napoleon was not a good rider. He rode like a sack of potatoes on a saddle & sometimes fell off his mounts. Napoleon was a crack shot but was quite the opposite of Wellington (who was, by the way, a poor shot) in the area of horsemanship.

No, not mares, it is not Arabs since some of them were not; nor the color since unlike many paintings show him always on a white horse, not all his horses were white; nor their gentle manners...

 

[Napoleon1er]

None of them were French? Just a guess.
-Sandor

 

[Grognard]

None of them were French? Just a guess.
-Sandor

Non, ce n'est pas la bonne réponse ! :wink2:

 

[Napoleon1er]

C'est très difficile!

 

[Fubar]

Geldings?

 

[Grognard]

Geldings?

No, but you are getting close...:wink2:

 

[trooper]

All stallions? Trooper

 

[breslau]

All stallions? Trooper

No, but you are getting close...:wink2:

I agree with Trooper if geldings is not the answer but is close, then I'll take a guess and say they were stallions.

 

[breslau]

Talking about geldings, the tails and manes of a lot of military horses were routinely cut off. Does the answer revolve around this fact? All Napoleon's horses had their hair intact?

 

[Napoleon1er]

I agree with Trooper if geldings is not the answer but is close, then I'll take a guess and say they were stallions.

I thought one was a gelding....?

 

[Grognard]

All stallions? Trooper

Correct answer! All his personal horses were not geldings (around 100 overall during his reign). They had to be "On par with his Majesty's rank".