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" "Oh, if they ran away, then we’d have grape-shot or Cossacks with whips behind them," said the prince.

It would be an attack upon property,-a thing hardly conceivable even in Russia, Scythia, or among the Cossacks, but among us, the oldest sons of civilization!.

Near Sussk, to the east of Lutsk, a squadron of Cossacks attacked the enemy behind his fortified lines, capturing two guns, eight ammunition wagons, and 200 boxes of ammunition.

On the reaches of the Dniester, south of Buczacz, Don Cossacks, having crossed the river fighting and overthrowing elements of the Austro-Hungarian advance guards, occupied the villages of Siekerghine and Petruve, capturing five officers and 350 men.

South and north we have scouted until we have come into touch with the cavalry of the -- Corps of the vedettes which the Cossacks of the Don furnished for the -- Brigade.

" On May 1, 1916, Russian Cossacks were able to drive back Turkish troops, making a stand somewhere west of Erzerum and east of Erzingan.

The difficulties which had to be faced and the valor which was exhibited is interestingly described by the official British press representative with the Mesopotamian forces: "The Cossacks' ride across country was a fine and daring achievement, an extreme test of our Allies' hardness, mobility, and resource.

"For ambulance they had only one assistant surgeon, provided with medical wallets, but none of these Cossacks fell sick.

"The ride of the Cossacks establishing direct contact between the Russian force in Persia and the British force on the Tigris, of course, has impressed the tribesmen on both sides of the frontier.

The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without having lost a single man.


The second squadron that had been in the front line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side of the river.


Passing by Kutuzov's carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of his suite, with their Cossacks who were talking loudly together, Prince Andrew entered the passage.


Kutuzov himself, he was told, was in the house with Prince Bagration and Weyrother.


Weyrother was the Austrian general who had succeeded Schmidt.


In the passage little Kozlovski was squatting on his heels in front of a clerk.


The clerk, with cuffs turned up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards.


Kozlovski's face looked worn-he too had evidently not slept all night.


He glanced at Prince Andrew and did not even nod to him.


Through the door came the sounds of Kutuzov's voice, excited and dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice.


From the sound of these voices, the inattentive way Kozlovski looked at him, the disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and Kozlovski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the Cossacks holding the horses near the window, Prince Andrew felt that something important and disastrous was about to happen.


"Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!" said the French grenadier.


The feeling, "It has begun! Here it is!" was seen even on Prince Bagration's hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes.


Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking and feeling at that moment.


"Is there anything at all behind that impassive face?" Prince Andrew asked himself as he looked.


Prince Bagration bent his head in sign of agreement with what Prince Andr ... ry.


Prince Andrew followed with the suite.


Behind Prince Bagration rode an officer of the suite, the prince's personal adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian-an accountant who had asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity.


The accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naive smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on his horse with a convoy officer's saddle.


At dawn on the sixteenth of November, Denisov's squadron, in which Nicholas Rostov served and which was in Prince Bagration's detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad.


Rostov saw the Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals Bagration and Dolgorukov ride past with their adjutants.


All the fear before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted.


Their squadron remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostov spent that day in a dull and wretched mood.


At nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of French cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sotnya of Cossacks.


Evidently the affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement.


The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French squadron.


The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostov going or coming.


And Nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all the more depressed.


"There! They are bringing another!" cried one of the officers, indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by two Cossacks.


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