" Lift this young man up and carry him to the dressing station.

" Having said this, Napoleon rode on to meet Marshal Lannes, who, hat in hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory.

Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station.

He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital.