[21] Slight arch or upward bend.
[22] Subaltern, officer below the rank of captain.
[23] Place in East Prussia, also known as Tannenberg. A battle was fought there in 1410, when the Teutonic Knights, who were then masters of East Prussia, suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Russians.
[24] Ab´sant (give a nasal sound to the n.)
[25] The Peninsular War was fought between August 1808 and June 1814. Wellington, the British general, drove the French out of Spain into France, and in March 1814 invaded that country and reached Toulouse.
[26] Kosh-tsyūsh´ko, born 1746, died 1817. In 1794 he raised the standard of Polish independence at Cracow, defeated the Russians, and defended Warsaw for two months. He was defeated, and, after being imprisoned, was released and retired to Switzerland, where he died.
[27] P´shé-mee-sell.
[28] Var´show.
[29] Nā-ref´.
[30] Var´tay.