Puzzle 223

[delidog]

"C" Please

[luckies4me]

K please 5th guess

OMG! I am at 1,500 already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Miss Meow]

As for the horse named Marengo, legend has it that he was
captured during the Egyptian campaign, that Napoleon rode him
on all his famous campaigns from the second Italian campaign,
through the retreat from Moscow, to the final battle at Waterloo.
The horse reputedly was captured after that climatic battle and
taken to Britain, where he was put on e-hibition and e-en today
his skeleton is on display in the National Army Museum.

Marengo was a sensation. Crowds pressed into the Waterloo
Rooms on Pall Mall to see the proud horse described on the
ad-ertising handbills as "Bonaparte's White Barb Charger ...
fa-ourite horse of the late Emperor". This small grey Arab
stallion, around 14 hands in height (he was called a Barb
because he was of Turkish origin), had accompanied his
master "through most of his battles," stated the bills and carried
the wounds to pro-e it: fi-e scars and a bullet lodged in his tail.

Constant, Napoleon's -alet, wrote that, "The Emperor mounted
a horse without grace ... and I belie-e that he would not ha-e
always been -ery sturdy on the horse if we had not taken so
much care to gi-e him only horses perfectly trained." On the
other hand, Ernst Otto Odeleben, more critical of Napoleon's
lack of e-uestrian skills said: "Napoleon rode like a butcher ...
whilst galloping, his body rolled backwards and forwards and
sideways, according to the speed of his horse.”

~Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon's Horse

Letters left to guess:

J Q V X Z



Scores:

UABassoon 114 A x 2 = 228
Fuzzy317 130 E x 2, 67 I x 2, 29 M = 423
Randi 98 O x 2, 104 T, 56 L = 356
Delidog 77 S, 71 H, 22 G, 30 C = 200
Luckies4me 24 U x 2, 74 N, 50 D, 18 F, 25 P, 14 Y, 8 K = 237

Floppsy 75 R = 75
Koxka 22 W = 22
Karen 22 B = 22



OK, you've guessed all the hard words

[Fuzzy317]

V please

[Miss Meow]

As for the horse named Marengo, legend has it that he was
captured during the Egyptian campaign, that Napoleon rode him
on all his famous campaigns from the second Italian campaign,
through the retreat from Moscow, to the final battle at Waterloo.
The horse reputedly was captured after that climatic battle and
taken to Britain, where he was put on e-hibition and even today
his skeleton is on display in the National Army Museum.

Marengo was a sensation. Crowds pressed into the Waterloo
Rooms on Pall Mall to see the proud horse described on the
advertising handbills as "Bonaparte's White Barb Charger ...
favourite horse of the late Emperor". This small grey Arab
stallion, around 14 hands in height (he was called a Barb
because he was of Turkish origin), had accompanied his
master "through most of his battles," stated the bills and carried
the wounds to prove it: five scars and a bullet lodged in his tail.

Constant, Napoleon's valet, wrote that, "The Emperor mounted
a horse without grace ... and I believe that he would not have
always been very sturdy on the horse if we had not taken so
much care to give him only horses perfectly trained." On the
other hand, Ernst Otto Odeleben, more critical of Napoleon's
lack of e-uestrian skills said: "Napoleon rode like a butcher ...
whilst galloping, his body rolled backwards and forwards and
sideways, according to the speed of his horse.”

~Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon's Horse

Letters left to guess:

J Q X Z



Scores:

UABassoon 114 A x 2 = 228
Fuzzy317 130 E x 2, 67 I x 2, 29 M, 11 V = 434
Randi 98 O x 2, 104 T, 56 L = 356
Delidog 77 S, 71 H, 22 G, 30 C = 200
Luckies4me 24 U x 2, 74 N, 50 D, 18 F, 25 P, 14 Y, 8 K = 237
Floppsy 75 R = 75
Koxka 22 W = 22
Karen 22 B = 22



OK, you've REALLY guessed all the hard words

[Fuzzy317]

Guess sent

[Miss Meow]

Congratulations Fuzzy317! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to host the next fastest-running puzzle in town

Hope you liked the quote. Napoleon's advisers were a tad catty, weren't they?

As for the horse named Marengo, legend has it that he was
captured during the Egyptian campaign, that Napoleon rode him
on all his famous campaigns from the second Italian campaign,
through the retreat from Moscow, to the final battle at Waterloo.
The horse reputedly was captured after that climatic battle and
taken to Britain, where he was put on exhibition and even today
his skeleton is on display in the National Army Museum.

Marengo was a sensation. Crowds pressed into the Waterloo
Rooms on Pall Mall to see the proud horse described on the
advertising handbills as "Bonaparte's White Barb Charger ...
favourite horse of the late Emperor". This small grey Arab
stallion, around 14 hands in height (he was called a Barb
because he was of Turkish origin), had accompanied his
master "through most of his battles," stated the bills and carried
the wounds to prove it: five scars and a bullet lodged in his tail.

Constant, Napoleon's valet, wrote that, "The Emperor mounted
a horse without grace ... and I believe that he would not have
always been very sturdy on the horse if we had not taken so
much care to give him only horses perfectly trained." On the
other hand, Ernst Otto Odeleben, more critical of Napoleon's
lack of equestrian skills said: "Napoleon rode like a butcher ...
whilst galloping, his body rolled backwards and forwards and
sideways, according to the speed of his horse.”

~Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon's Horse

[Fuzzy317]

This was not that fast. Your puzzle lasted almost 23 hours.

[Miss Meow]

Yeeeeeeeees, but it was a long puzzle and I had eight hours sleep inbetween, and if you take that time off ...