Volume 1: Book 3 - Chapter 17

Characters Present:

General Bagratión

Nicholas Rostóv

Prince Dolgurúkov

General Kutúzov

Location:

Pratzen 

Nicholas Rostóv is under the command of General Bagratión in the right flank of the army, who are yet to start fighting.

Bagratión disagrees with Prince Dolgurúkov's demand that they join the battle and sends Rostóv on a six mile trek, on which he will probably die, to ask General Kutúzov whether they should join or not.

Rostóv asks if he can ask the emperor if he runs into him first, which Bagratión agrees to.  Rostóv rides off happily, but upon reaching the other side of the army, realises that the Austrians and Germans are firing at each other, and that they are completely flanked by the French.

Book 2 - Chapter 21

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

Book 2 Chapter 8

Characters Present: 

Colonel Karl Bogdánich Schubert - German-Russian, speaks Russian badly as written by Tolstoy
Zherkóv
Vaska Denísov
Cadet Minónov
Prince Nesvítski
Nicholas Rostóv

Location: 

Still on the bridge crossing the River Danube at Enns

Denisóv's squadron are the only remaining on the end of the bridge and can see the blue uniforms of the French coming over the hill on the opposite bank.  Schubert and his two squadrons are nearby, and Nesvístki rides up to Schubert and demands to know why he he hasn't followed orders and burnt the bridge down.  Schubert denies ever receiving such orders and sends Denisóvs squadron back to do it. 

Rostóv, being in Denísov's squadron, rides back on to the bridge and freezes with fear as the French artillery and infantry get closer and wounded soldiers start calling out for stretchers. Meanwhile, Zherkóv, Nesvítski and others are discussing whether the bridge will catch fire before the French get to it, and they are happy when it does.