ich, with other Venetian possessions, had fallen to the
French in 1797, was taken in the Sultan's name by Ali, in October, 1798.
The troops in the garrison (300 French, 460 Greeks) encountered and were
overwhelmed by 5000 Albanians, on the plain of Nicopolis. The victors
entered and sacked the town.]

[174] [Ali's eldest son, Mukhtar, the Pasha of Berat, had been sent
against the Russians, who, in 1809, invaded the trans-Danubian provinces
of the Ottoman Empire.]

[175] Yellow is the epithet given to the Russians.

[176] Infidel.

[177] The insignia of a Pacha.

[178] {149} [The literal meaning of Delhi or Deli, is, says M.
Darmesteter, "fou" ["properly madmen" (D'Herbelot)], a title bestowed on
Turkish warriors _honoris causu_. Byron suggests "forlorn hope" as an
equivalent; but there is a wide difference between the blood-drunkenness
of the Turk and the "foolishness" of British chivalry.]

[179] Sword-bearer.

[fr] _Tambourgi! thy tocsin_----.--[MS. D. erased]

[180] [Compare "The Isles of Greece," stanza 7 (_Don Juan_, Canto
III.)--

"Earth! render back from out thy heart
A remnant of our Spartan dead!
Of the three hundred grant but three
To make a new Thermopylae!"

The meaning is, "When shall another Lysander spring from Laconia
('Eurotas' banks') and revive the heroism of the ancient Spartans?"]

[fs] {150} _A fawning feeble race, untaught, enslaved, unmanned_.--[MS.
erased.]

[ft] ----_fair Liberty_.--[MS. erased, D.]

[181] {151} [Compare _The Age of Bronze_, vi. lines 39-46.]

[182] [The Wahabees, who took their name from the Arab sheik Mohammed
ben Abd-el-Wahab, arose in the province of Nedj, in Central Arabia,
about 1760. Half-socialists, half-puritans, they insisted on fulfilling
to the letter the precepts of the Koran. In 1803-4 they attacked and
ravaged Mecca and Medinah, and in 1808 they invaded Syria and took
Damascus. During Byron's residence in the East they were at the height
of their power, and seemed to threaten the very existence of the Turkish
empire.]

[183] {152} [Byron spent two months in Constantinople (Stamboul, i.e.
[Greek: ei)s te po/lin] )--from May 14 to July 14, 1810. The "Lenten
days," which were ushered in by a carnival, were those of the second
"great" Lent of the Greek Church, that of St. Peter and St. Paul, which
begins on the first Monday after Trinity, and ends on the 29th of June.]

[184] {153} [These _al-fresco_ festivities must, it is p