" Very good!" said Bagration in reply to the officer's report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended before him.

The French had advanced nearest on our right.

Below the height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of the suite pointed out to Bagration a French column that was outflanking us.