1 Toll wrote a disposition: "The first column will march to so and so," etc.
2 Our columns ought to have begun to appear on an open declivity to his right.
3 Orlov-Denisov, still waiting for the other columns to arrive, advanced no further.
4 They belonged to a column that should have been far in front and in ambush long before then.
5 From Vyazma onwards the French army, which had till then moved in three columns, went on as a single group.
6 "I give you that column, lads," he said, riding up to the troops and pointing out the French to the cavalry.
7 Meanwhile another column was to have attacked the French from the front, but Kutuzov accompanied that column.
8 He looked in that direction, but though the columns would have been visible quite far off, they were not to be seen.
9 Everything had been admirably thought out as is usual in dispositions, and as is always the case, not a single column reached its place at the appointed time.
10 In their rear, more than a mile from Mikulino where the forest came right up to the road, six Cossacks were posted to report if any fresh columns of French should show themselves.
11 "The First Column will march here and here," "the Second Column will march there and there," and so on; and on paper, all these columns arrived at their places at the appointed time and destroyed the enemy.
12 When Grekov returned, Count Orlov-Denisov, excited both by the abandoned attempt and by vainly awaiting the infantry columns that still did not appear, as well as by the proximity of the enemy, resolved to advance.
13 Some columns, supposing they had reached their destination, halted, piled arms, and settled down on the cold ground, but the majority marched all night and arrived at places where they evidently should not have been.
14 The road along which they moved was bordered on both sides by dead horses; ragged men who had fallen behind from various regiments continually changed about, now joining the moving column, now again lagging behind it.
15 That morning's attack on the wagons had been made so hastily that the Frenchmen with the wagons had all been killed; only a little drummer boy had been taken alive, and as he was a straggler he could tell them nothing definite about the troops in that column.
16 Denisov considered it dangerous to make a second attack for fear of putting the whole column on the alert, so he sent Tikhon Shcherbaty, a peasant of his party, to Shamshevo to try and seize at least one of the French quartermasters who had been sent on in advance.
17 Meantime, according to the dispositions which said that "the First Column will march" and so on, the infantry of the belated columns, commanded by Bennigsen and directed by Toll, had started in due order and, as always happens, had got somewhere, but not to their appointed places.
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