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Tushin's battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of

the action did Prince Bagration, still hearing the cannonade in

the center, send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince

Andrew also, to order the battery to retire as quickly as

possible. When the supports attached to Tushin's battery had been

moved away in the middle of the action by someone's order, the

battery had continued firing and was only not captured by the

French because the enemy could not surmise that anyone could have

the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended

guns. On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led

the French to suppose that here-in the center-the main Russian

forces were concentrated. Twice they had attempted to attack this

point, but on each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot

from the four isolated guns on the hillock.

Soon after Prince Bagration had left him, Tushin had succeeded in

setting fire to Schon Grabern.