What was the name of william of oranges horse called?

Question

What was the name of william of oranges horse called?

Answer 1

Yes it was Sorrel. William died of pneumonia, a complication from a broken collarbone, resulting from a fall off his horse, Sorrel.

Allen B deserves the best answer.

Answer 2

Allen B is correct - Sorrel.

In 1702, William died of pneumonia, a complication from a broken collarbone, resulting from a fall off his horse, Sorrel. Because his horse had stumbled into a mole's burrow, many Jacobites toasted "the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat."

Years later, Sir Winston Churchill, in his epic the History of the English Speaking Peoples, put it more poetically when he said that the fall "opened the trapdoor to a host of lurking foes". William was buried in Westminster Abbey alongside his wife.

Answer 3

Terry.

Answer 4

Neddy

Answer 5

jimbo

Answer 6

Trigger.

Answer 7

Sorrel.

He broke his collarbone falling from the horse and complications afterwards lead to him contracting pneumonia which killed him.(1702)

Answer 8

Dobbin

Answer 9

Sorrel