1 The head of the column had already descended into the hollow.
2 The fourth column, with which Kutuzov was, stood on the Pratzen Heights.
3 The head of the French column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill.
4 A small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, probably to strengthen the front line.
5 Austrian column guides were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds of the advance.
6 He touched his horse and having called Miloradovich, the commander of the column, gave him the order to advance.
7 All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing against them and winding down over the uneven ground.
8 A cannon ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagration and his suite, and fell into the column to the measure of "Left."
9 He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead that column himself.
10 When he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an inn, where two roads parted.
11 An Austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat galloped up to Kutuzov and asked in the Emperor's name had the fourth column advanced into action.
12 With the naked eye Prince Andrew saw below them to the right, not more than five hundred paces from where Kutuzov was standing, a dense French column coming up to meet the Apsherons.
13 The column moved forward without knowing where and unable, from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going.
14 At eight o'clock Kutuzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth column, Miloradovich's, the one that was to take the place of Przebyszewski's and Langeron's columns which had already gone down into the valley.
15 The younger Emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve o'clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped toward the vanguard.
16 But the hero of heroes was Prince Bagration, distinguished by his Schon Grabern affair and by the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous as his own.
17 Below the height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of the suite pointed out to Bagration a French column that was outflanking us.
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