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Chapter 6

           ButitwasimpossibletomaketheCossacksbudgewhenoncetheyhadgotbootyandprisoners.Noneofthemlistenedtoorders.Fifteenhundredprisonersandthirty-eightgunsweretakenonthespot,besidesstandardsand(whatseemedmostimportanttotheCossacks)horses,saddles,horsecloths,andthelike.Allthishadtobedealtwith,theprisonersandgunssecured,thebootydivided—notwithoutsomeshoutingandevenalittlefightingamongthemselves—anditwasonthisthattheCossacksallbusiedthemselves.

           TheFrench,notbeingfartherpursued,begantorecoverthemselves:theyformedintodetachmentsandbeganfiring.Orlóv-Denísov,stillwaitingfortheothercolumnstoarrive,advancednofurther.

           Meantime,accordingtothedispositionswhichsaidthat“theFirstColumnwillmarch”andsoon,theinfantryofthebelatedcolumns,commandedbyBennigsenanddirectedbyToll,hadstartedindueorderand,asalwayshappens,hadgotsomewhere,butnottotheirappointedplaces.Asalwayshappensthemen,startingcheerfully,begantohalt;murmurswereheard,therewasasenseofconfusion,andfinallyabackwardmovement.Adjutantsandgeneralsgallopedabout,shouted,grewangry,quarreled,saidtheyhadcomequitewrongandwerelate,gaveventtoalittleabuse,andatlastgaveitallupandwentforward,simplytogetsomewhere.“Weshallgetsomewhereorother!”Andtheydidindeedgetsomewhere,thoughnottotheirrightplaces;afeweventuallyevengottotheirrightplace,buttoolatetobeofanyuseandonlyintimetobefiredat

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