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The General (horse)
President John Tyler's horse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The General was a horse owned by US President John Tyler.[1] When he died, John Tyler had The General buried on his Sherwood Forest Plantation, in the Sherwood Forest Pet Cemetery.[2]
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The horse's epitaph reads:
Here lie the bones of my old horse, "General,"
who served his master faithfully
for twenty-one years.
And never made a blunder.
Would that his master could say the same![3]