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No one had given Tushin orders where and at what to fire, but

after consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchenko, for whom he

had great respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing

to set fire to the village. "Very good!" said Bagration in reply

to the officer's report, and began deliberately to examine the

whole battlefield extended before him. The French had advanced

nearest on our right. Below the height on which the Kiev regiment

was stationed, in the hollow where the rivulet flowed, the

soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was heard, and

much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of the

suite pointed out to Bagration a French column that was

outflanking us. To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent

wood. Prince Bagration ordered two battalions from the center to

be sent to reinforce the right flank. The officer of the suite

ventured to remark to the prince that if these battalions went

away, the guns would remain without support.