To the left below, in the fog, exchanges of fire between unseen troops could be heard.
Now, entering into Weyrother's plan, Prince Andrei pondered the possible happenstances and came up with new considerations, such as might call for his swiftness of reflection and decisiveness. His own strategic plan, which there obviously could be no thought of carrying out now, was forgotten. The locality and position of our troops were known to him, as far as they could be known to anyone in our army. How it would happen, he did not know, but he was firmly convinced that it would be so. He was firmly convinced that this was the day of his Toulon or his bridge of Arcole. Prince Andrei felt excited, irritated, and at the same time restrainedly calm, as a man usually is when a long-desired moment comes. Prince Andrei, one of the enormous number of persons constituting the commander in chief's suite, stood behind him.
Having ridden to the village of Pratz, he halted. He greeted the men of the head regiment and gave the order to move, thus showing that he intended to lead the column himself. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, hardcover, 1296 pages, list price: $37.00Īt eight o'clock Kutuzov rode to Pratz at the head of Miloradovich's fourth column, the one which was to take the place of the columns of Przebyszewski and Langeron, which had already gone down.
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