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It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position

and the greater part of the enemy's opened out from this battery.

Just facing it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of

Schon Grabern could be seen, and in three places to left and

right the French troops amid the smoke of their campfires, the

greater part of whom were evidently in the village itself and

behind the hill. To the left from that village, amid the smoke,

was something resembling a battery, but it was impossible to see

it clearly with the naked eye. Our right flank was posted on a

rather steep incline which dominated the French position. Our

infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the

dragoons. In the center, where Tushin's battery stood and from

which Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest

and most direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us

from Schon Grabern.