1 Their father returned to his division and his wife, and only rarely sent his sons large sheets of grey paper, scrawled over in a bold clerkly hand.
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 On the thirtieth he attacked Mortier's division, which was on the left bank, and broke it up.
4 Count Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed Murat's emissary and retired, leaving Bagration's division exposed.
5 A few minutes after the Emperor had passed, the Pavlograd division was ordered to advance.
6 Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the village.
7 Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped the third division and convinced himself that there really were no sharpshooters in front of our columns.
8 It had been neither at Pultusk nor at Preussisch-Eylau and, when it joined the army in the field in the second half of the campaign, was attached to Platov's division.
9 Platov's division was acting independently of the main army.
10 It was a cavalry general who had obtained the Emperor's special favor during this campaign, and who had formerly commanded the division in which Rostov was serving.
11 He spoke a few words to some of the generals, and, recognizing the former commander of Rostov's division, smiled and beckoned to him.
12 Two officers of his own division joined him.
13 The colonel said that the commander of the division was a mile and a quarter away and would receive Balashev and conduct him to his destination.
14 The sharpshooters of Morand's division and of the vice-King's division will open a heavy fire on seeing the attack commence on the right wing.
15 General Campan's division did not seize the first fortification but was driven back, for on emerging from the wood it had to reform under grapeshot, of which Napoleon was unaware.