Horses and famous people

Bucephalus or Bucephalas was the horse of Alexander the Great, and one of the most famous horses of classical antiquity.

Copenhagen (1808 – 12 February 1836) was the Duke of Wellington's war horse, which he most famously rode at the Battle of Waterloo.

George B. McClellan

George Washington's gavorite horses

Incitatus, meaning "swift" or "at full gallop") was the favourite horse of Roman Emperor Caligula (r. 37–41 AD). According to legend, Caligula planned to make the horse a consul.

Marengo (c. 1793–1831) was the famous war horse of Napoleon I of France. Named after the Battle of Marengo, through which he carried his rider safely, Marengo was imported to France from Egypt following the Battle of Abukir in 1799 as a six-year-old.

Palomo was Simón Bolívar's horse. It accompanied him on most of his campaigns of national liberation. The horse was white, tall, with a tail that almost reached the ground. It was a gift from an elderly peasant woman from Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá Department, shortly before the Battle of Boyacá in 1819.

Stonewall Jackson

Traveller (1857–1871) was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's most famous horse during the American Civil War.

U.S. Grant

William Tecumseh Sherman

General Phillip Sheridan

Roy Rogers

Dale Evans

Gene Autry

Tex Ritter

Lone Ranger