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The night he received the news, Kutuzov sent Bagration's

vanguard, four thousand strong, to the right across the hills

from the Krems-Znaim to the Vienna-Znaim road. Bagration was to

make this march without resting, and to halt facing Vienna with

Znaim to his rear, and if he succeeded in forestalling the French

he was to delay them as long as possible. Kutuzov himself with

all his transport took the road to Znaim.