{319}[403] ["La première attaque était composée de trois colonnes ... Trois autres colonnes, destinées a la seconde attaque, avaient pour chefs, etc.... La troisième attaque par eau n'avait que deux colonnes."--_Hist, de la Nouvelle Russie_, ii. 207.] [404] ["On construisit de nouvelles batteries le 18^e^.... On tint un conseil de guerre, on y examina les plans pour l'assaut proposés par M. de Ribas, ils réunirent tous les souffrages."--_Ibid._, p. 208.] [hp] _For once by some odd sort of magnanimity._--[MS. erased.] [hq] _Bellona shook her spear with much sublimity._--[MS. erased.] [405] Fact: Suwaroff did this in person. [hr]---- _and neither swerve nor spill._--[MS. erased.] [406] ["Le 19^e^ et le 20^e^, Souwarow exerçailes soldats; il leur montra comment il fallait s'y prendre pour escalader; il enseigna aux recrues la manière de donner le coup de baïonnette."--_Ibid_., p. 208.] {320}[407] ["Pour ces exercices d'un nouveau genre, il se servit de fascines disposées de manière a représenter un Turc."-_Hist, de la Nauvelle Russie_, ii. 208.] [hs] _At which your wise men laughed, but all their Wit is_ _Lost, for his repartee was taking cities._--[MS. erased.] [ht] _For some were thinking of their wives and families,_ _And others of themselves_ (_as poet Samuel is_). --[MS. Alternative reading.] _And others of themselves_ (_as my friend Samuel is_). --[MS. erased.] [408] [For a detailed account of Suvóroff's personal characteristics, see _The Life of Field-Marshal Souvaroff_, by L.M.P. Tranchant de Laverne, 1814, pp. 267-291; and _Suvóroff_, by Lieut.-Colonel Spalding, 1890, pp. 222-229. Byron's epithet "buffoon" (line 5) may, perhaps, be traced to the following anecdote recorded by Tranchant de Laverne (p. 281): "During the first war of Poland ... he published, in the order of the day, that at the first crowing of the cock the troops would march to attack the enemy, and caused the spy to send word that the Russians would be upon them some time after midnight. But about eight o'clock Souvarof ran through the camp, imitating the crowing of a cock.... The enemy, completely surprised, lost a great number of men." For his "praying" (line 6), _vide ibid._, pp. 272, 273: "He made a short prayer after each meal, and again when going to bed. He usually performed his devotions before an image of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Russia." "Half-dirt" (line 5) is, however, a calumny (_ibid_. p. 272): "It was his custom to rise at the earliest dawn; several buckets of cold water were thrown over his naked body."