1 "If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God," he added as if speaking to himself.
2 "That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment," he said.
3 Meeting Bagration's weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be Kutuzov's whole army.
4 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.
5 Bonaparte's adjutant had not yet reached Murat's detachment and the battle had not yet begun.
6 In Bagration's detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs.
7 Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of Bagration's detachment was reunited to Kutuzov's army.
8 That same night, Rostov was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front of Bagration's detachment.
9 He found the Cossacks, inquired for the regiment operating with Platov's detachment and by evening found his master, Nicholas Rostov, quartered at Yankovo.
10 In front rode a detachment of Wurttemberg hussars and behind them rode the King of Naples himself accompanied by a numerous suite.
11 A French officer, returning from the advanced detachment, rode up to Murat and reported that the gates of the citadel had been barricaded and that there was probably an ambuscade there.
12 Serpukhov is already occupied by an enemy detachment and Tula with its famous arsenal so indispensable to the army, is in danger.
13 A third has advanced along the Vladimir road, and a fourth, rather considerable detachment is stationed between Ruza and Mozhaysk.
14 This detachment halted at the outskirts of a forest, on the path leading from the village of Stromilova to Dmitrovsk.
15 The result was a compromise which was inevitable: a small detachment was sent to Forminsk to attack Broussier.