E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Copenhagen.
The Duke of Wellington’s horse, on which he rode in the Battle of Waterloo, “from four in the morning till twelve at night.” It was a rich chestnut, 15 hands high. It was afterwards a pensioner in the paddocks of Strathfieldsaye. It died quite blind, in 1835, at the age of twenty-seven, and was buried with military honours, (See HORSE.)
