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Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having

stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from

their commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late

spreading through the ranks, and above all being unable to see

anything in front or around them in the thick fog, the Russians

exchanged shots with the enemy lazily and advanced and again

halted, receiving no timely orders from the officers or adjutants

who wandered about in the fog in those unknown surroundings

unable to find their own regiments. In this way the action began

for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down

into the valley. The fourth column, with which Kutuzov was, stood

on the Pratzen Heights.