Characters Present:
Captain Tushín
Nicholas Rostóv
Prince Andrew Bolkónski
General Bagratión
some other officers
Location:
Znaime
It is nightfall and the battle is coming to an end. Rostóv, still with a wounded arm, rides on one of the canons in Captain Tushín's battery until they set camp for the evening.
Tushín is called into a hut that has some high-ranking officers and General Bagratión dining in it. Bagratión scolds him in front of everyone for losing two guns in the battle. Tushín, who is on the brink of exhaustion, apologises and is then unable to say anything, lest he implicate other officers. Bolkónski, furious, speaks out and says that Tushín actually saved the day and that they should be thanking him.
It is revealed that the French do not attack again on the following day and that the remains of Bagratión's detachment are reunited to Kutúzov's army.
End of Book 2
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