166 [A town not far from Odessa, captured from the Turks in 1788 by Potemkin.]
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 [pg 350] 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].]
173 [Jan Tenczynski, an ambassador from Poland to Sweden, gained the love of a Swedish princess. On his journey to espouse her he was captured by the Danes, in 1562, and he died in confinement in Copenhagen in the next year. His memory has been honoured in verse by Kochanowski and in prose by Niemcewicz.]
174 [Compare p. [305].]
175 [See note [38].]