1 No, Peter Nikolaevich; I only want to show that in the cavalry the advantages are far less than in the infantry.
2 The best quarters in the village were assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known throughout the whole cavalry division as Vaska Denisov.
3 Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire.
4 His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the dip.
5 He reported that his regiment had been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been repulsed, he had lost more than half his men.
6 They were still firing, not at the cavalry which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the hollow and were firing at our men.
7 But the regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the impending action.
8 From privates to general they were not expecting a battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the horses and the infantry collecting wood.
9 I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if you are not aware of the fact.
10 Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: infantry, cavalry, and artillery.
11 The whole army was extended in three lines: the cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the infantry.
12 The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march.
13 And the old cavalry captain, Kirsten, shouted enthusiastically and no less sincerely than the twenty-year-old Rostov.
14 Several thousand cavalry crossed in front of the infantry, who had to wait.
15 The general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to blame.