1 "That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment," he said.
2 In Bagration's detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs.
3 Bonaparte's adjutant had not yet reached Murat's detachment and the battle had not yet begun.
4 He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached and hurriedly removed.
5 Meeting Bagration's weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be Kutuzov's whole army.
6 "If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God," he added as if speaking to himself.
7 That same night, Rostov was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front of Bagration's detachment.
8 Only now and then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot unexpectedly through his mind.
9 He felt that these consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with them or make them move.
10 Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of Bagration's detachment was reunited to Kutuzov's army.
11 He found the Cossacks, inquired for the regiment operating with Platov's detachment and by evening found his master, Nicholas Rostov, quartered at Yankovo.
12 Bagration's exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself.
13 During the hours of solitude, suffering, and partial delirium he spent after he was wounded, the more deeply he penetrated into the new principle of eternal love revealed to him, the more he unconsciously detached himself from earthly life.
14 Beyond that space there was, on the one side, a demonstration made by the Russians with Uvarov's cavalry at midday, and on the other side, beyond Utitsa, Poniatowski's collision with Tuchkov; but these two were detached and feeble actions in comparison with what took place in the center of the battlefield.
15 This was the party of the elders, reasonable men experienced and capable in state affairs, who, without sharing any of those conflicting opinions, were able to take a detached view of what was going on at the staff at headquarters and to consider means of escape from this muddle, indecision, intricacy, and weakness.
16 At dawn on the sixteenth of November, Denisov's squadron, in which Nicholas Rostov served and which was in Prince Bagration's detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad.
17 Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte's stern letter, and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him.
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