Stable door open for the famous Marengo to be returned to the North

The stable door is being left open in terms of diplomacy for a North Cork town to get one of history’s most famous equines back home.

Buttevant claims that Napoleon’s famous white charger, Marengo, belongs to it and wants the newly refurbished skeleton of the horse “repatriated” to the medieval town.

The skeleton of Marengo which has been cleaned and rearticulated at a huge cost by the British government and is now on display at the British National Army Museum in Chelsea, London.