Chapter 33

           

           ThechiefactionofthebattleofBorodinówasfoughtwithintheseventhousandfeetbetweenBorodinóandBagratión’sflèches.Beyondthatspacetherewas,ontheoneside,ademonstrationmadebytheRussianswithUvárov’scavalryatmidday,andontheotherside,beyondUtítsa,Poniatowski’scollisionwithTúchkov;butthesetwoweredetachedandfeebleactionsincomparisonwithwhattookplaceinthecenterofthebattlefield.OnthefieldbetweenBorodinóandtheflèches,besidethewood,thechiefactionofthedaytookplaceonanopenspacevisiblefrombothsidesandwasfoughtinthesimplestandmostartlessway.

           Thebattlebeganonbothsideswithacannonadefromseveralhundredguns.

           Thenwhenthewholefieldwascoveredwithsmoke,twodivisions,Campan’sandDessaix’s,advancedfromtheFrenchright,whileMurat’stroopsadvancedonBorodinófromtheirleft.

           FromtheShevárdinoRedoubtwhereNapoleonwasstandingtheflèchesweretwothirdsofamileaway,anditwasmorethanamileasthecrowfliestoBorodinó,sothatNapoleoncouldnotseewhatwashappeningthere,especiallyasthesmokeminglingwiththemisthidthewholelocality.ThesoldiersofDessaix’sdivisionadvancingagainsttheflèchescouldonlybeseentilltheyhadenteredthehollowthatlaybetweenthemandtheflèches.Assoonastheyhaddescendedintothathollow,thesmokeofthegunsandmusketryontheflèchesgrewsodensethatitcoveredthewholeapproachonthatsideofit.Throughthesmokeglimpsescouldbecaughtofsomethingblack—probablymen—andattimestheglintofbayonets.

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