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The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry

was moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that

our center was too far separated from our right flank and the

cavalry were all ordered to turn back to the right. Several

thousand cavalry crossed in front of the infantry, who had to

wait.

At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide

and a Russian general. The general shouted a demand that the

cavalry should be halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but

the higher command, was to blame. The troops meanwhile stood

growing listless and dispirited. After an hour's delay they at

last moved on, descending the hill. The fog that was dispersing

on the hill lay still more densely below, where they were

descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then

another, at first irregularly at varying

intervals-trata...tat-and then more and more regularly and

rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream began.