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The day after Rostov had been to see Boris, a review was held of

the Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from

Russia and those who had been campaigning under Kutuzov. The two

Emperors, the Russian with his heir the Tsarevich, and the

Austrian with the Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty

thousand men.

From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move,

forming up on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of

feet and bayonets moved and halted at the officers' command,

turned with banners flying, formed up at intervals, and wheeled

round other similar masses of infantry in different uniforms; now

was heard the rhythmic beat of hoofs and the jingling of showy

cavalry in blue, red, and green braided uniforms, with smartly

dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, or gray horses;

then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the polished

shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with the

smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the

infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position.