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His body, dressed in the green uniform of the Chasseurs de la Garde, is encased in six coffins, one inside the other Chinese-box fashion.
Before the portion of the Carinthian front held by the Eighth Chasseurs Battalion more than 500 dead Italians were observed.
It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the greater part of the enemy's opened out from this battery.
Just facing it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schon Grabern could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were evidently in the village itself and behind the hill.
To the left from that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a batt ... and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the dip.
Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline.
He imagined only important possibilities: "If the enemy attacks the right flank," he said to himself, "the Kiev grenadiers and the Podolsk chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center come up.
In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank counterattack.
If they attack our center we, having the center battery on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and retreat to the dip by echelons.
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All the time he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they were saying.
Suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen.
The commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a pleasant smile-his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, giving him a mild expression, rode up to Bagration and welcomed him as a host welcomes an honored guest.
He reported that his regiment had been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been repulsed, he had lost more than half his men.
He said the attack had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what ... lls began flying all over his regiment and hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted "Cavalry!" and our men had begun firing.
They were still firing, not at the cavalry which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the hollow and were firing at our men.
Prince Bagration bowed his head as a sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected.
Turning to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed.
Prince Andrew was struck by the changed expression on Prince Bagration's face at this moment.
It expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water.
The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation of profound thought.
The round, steady, hawk's eyes looked before him eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his movements were still slow and measured.
The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order.
Before they had reached Bagration, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in step could be heard.
On their left flank, nearest to Bagration, marched a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy expression-the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed.
At that moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he would appear as he passed the commander.
The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right flank.
In the center Tushin's forgotten battery, which had managed to set fire to the Schon Grabern village, delayed the French advance.
The French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus gave us time to retreat.
The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed.
But our left-which consisted of the Azov and Podolsk infantry and the Pavlograd hussars-was simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under Lannes and was thrown into confusion.
Bagration had sent Zherkov to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat immediately.
On the thirteenth of June a rather small, thoroughbred Arab horse was brought to Napoleon.
He mounted it and rode at a gallop to one of the bridges over the Niemen, deafened continually by incessant and rapturous acclamations which he evidently endured only because it was impossible to forbid the soldiers to express their love of him by such shouting, but the shouting which accompanied him everywhere disturbed him and distracted him from the military cares that had occupied him from the time he joined the army.
He rode across one of the swaying pontoon bridges to the farther side, turned sharply to the left, and galloped in the direction of Kovno, preceded by enraptured, mounted chasseurs of the Guard who, breathless with delight, galloped ahead to clear a path for him through the troops.
On reaching the broad river Viliya, he stopped near a regiment of Polish uhlans stationed by the river.
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