Notes
1. German for “Attrition”.
2. German for “Annihilate”.
3. On 31 August 1853, in Syracuse, NY, Vashon (1824–1878), a pioneering African-American lawyer, wrote a fragmentary ballad in praise of Ogé, a Métis hero of the Haitian Revolution, executed by the enemy French at Cap-Français in March 1791. See Joan Sherman, African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (1992), pp. 153–154, 165.