Book 2 - Chapter 19

Characters Present (or discussed):

Captain Tushín 
A German colonel
A Russian general
Zherkóv
Nicholas Rostóv
General Bagratión


Location: 

Still in Znaime

Captain Tushín's plan to set the village on fire was successful, and the French are slightly delayed as they rush to put it out.

General Bagratión sends Zherkóv to tell the left flank to retreat, and Zherkóv finds a German colonel and a Russian general arguing.  Apparently the German won't command his men to fight as they are outnumbered - he refuses on the grounds that he doesn't want to do kill his men for the entertainment of the Russian.  The French get in around the back of the Germans, so they have to fight to get out anyway.

Rostóv's arm gets maimed horribly when he falls of his horse, which got maimed seconds before, and he runs away when he notices French soldiers coming to either capture or kill him.

Book 2 - Chapter 18

Characters Present:

Prince Andew Bolkónski
General Bagratíon

Location: 

Still in Znaime

The battle is in full swing and Bolkónski walks past several soldiers who are bleeding quite gruesomely.

Bagratíon continues to act as though everything is going according to plan and seems delusional but happy.  He joins the march on the French army.

Book 2 - Chapter 17

Characters Present: 

Prince Andrew Bolkónski
General Bagratión 
Captain Tushín

Location:

Still at Znaime

More canon balls are fired at the Russian army, and though not having received orders, Captain Tushín of the Russian battery starts firing canons back into the village that some of the French army are in, with the aim of setting it on fire.

Bolkónski, now going around with Bagratíon, notes that though Bagratíon does not appear to be giving orders, or to even have a plan, he acts as though everything that happens is going according to how he wanted or expected it to.  This has a calming effect on the soldiers that he interacts with. 

The movement of the French army around the Russian army tends to suggest that the Russians are doomed.

Book 2 - Chapter 15

Characters Present:

Prince Andew Bolkónski
Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov

Location:
  
Znaime 

Bolkónski, having managed to convince Kutüzov to ride ahead, arrives at  General Bagratión's encampment in Znaime.   The battle has not yet commenced, and nobody there really knows what is going on. 

Bolkónski asks to tour the camp and upon reaching the lines, and notes that the Russians and the French are so close that they can speak.  He rides along the line for a bit, and spots Dólokhov and a Frenchman taunting each other.

Book 2 - Chapter 14

Characters present (or discussed)

Kutúzov (Commander in Chief)

Prince Murat (French, took part in the trickery on the bridge in Vienna)

A spy

Bagratión (A Russian General)

Location: 

Vienna-Znaime Road at Hollabrünn

One hundred and fifty thousand French, according to the spy, are advancing toward Znaime, and if they get there before the Russian army, Kutúzov will be cut off from reinforcements coming through from Russia.

He sends word to Bagratión who has a vanguard of four thousand men relatively nearby, and they march all night to Znaime and reach it some hours before the French. He is to stall the French until Kutúsov can arrive.

Prince Murat mistakes Bagratión's vanguard for the whole Russian army, and proposes a truce for three days while the rest of his army arrives but Bagratíon is not highly ranked enough to agree or disagree, so sends a message back to Kutúzov.   Bonaparte sends a letter via an adjudicate to Murat telling him not to be stupid and to attack the Russians on the following day.

Book 2 - Chapter 7

Characters Present:

Prince Nesvítski
Vaska Denísov

Location: 

Still on the bridge over the River Danube in Enns

The enemy is still attacking and the bridge that the army are on is clogged with chaos and soldiers. The soldiers let  a German family through and the men act seedily towards the young woman and offer to buy her off her husband.  The family eventually gets through and Nesvitski notices canon balls hurtling into the water under the bridge. Denísov makes it onto the bridge and yells at Nesvitski to get the soldiers to let him pass.

Denísov and Nesvítski make it to the end of the bridge and stop the infantry from going on, to ease the congestion.