A Year of War and Peace+ Day 44

In which two Russian generals fight each other, Nicholas Rostóv is injured and we see that preparation for hardship is protection against hardship

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War and Peace — Book One, Part Two

Chapter Nineteen

The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right flank. In the center Túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to set fire to the Schön Grabern village, delayed the French advance. The French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus gave us time to retreat. The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed. But our left — which consisted of the Azóv and Podólsk infantry and the Pávlograd hussars — was simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under Lannes…