(I don't much pique myself upon orthography,
So that I do not grossly err in facts,
Statistics, tactics, politics, and geography)—
Having been used to serve on horses' backs,
And no great dilettanti in topography
Of fortresses, but fighting where it pleases
Their chiefs to order,—were all cut to pieces.[451]
LXXV.
Their column, though the Turkish batteries thundered
Upon them, ne'ertheless had reached the rampart,[452]