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167 [Izmail was a fortress in Bessarabia, captured from the Turks

by Suvorov in 1790, after a peculiarly bloody siege. (Byron chose

this episode for treatment in Don Juan, cantos vii and viii.)

Mickiewicz makes Rykov give the name as Izmailov; Rykov is a

bluff soldier, not a stickler for geographical nomenclature.]

168 [In Italy, near Modena, memorable for the victory of the

Russians and Austrians over the French in 1799.]

169 Evidently Preussisch-Eylau. [In East Prussia: see p. 334.]

170 [Alexander Rimski-Korsakov (1753-1840), a Russian general

sent in 1799 to Switzerland in aid of Suvorov; he was beaten on

September 25, before uniting with Suvorov, and was in consequence

for a time dismissed from the service.]

171 [A village not far from Cracow, where on April 4, 1794,

Kosciuszko with an army of 6000, among them 2000 peasants, armed

with scythes, defeated a body of 7000 Russians.]

172 [See p. 334.]