On August 16th Murat and Ney arrived at Smolensk, having chased the Russian 27th Division there from the vicinity of Krasne. The ensuing battle would go in fits and starts for the next three days.
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Following Ostrovno, there was a running fight between Murat and Osterman-Tolstoy. The Russian stopped just west of Vitebsk when joined by Tuchkov I, who took over command of the rear guard. This was apparently an affront to Tolstoy who remained at the rear according to some accounts and ignored Tuchkov and dove into the thick of the fight by other accounts. In any event, Pahlen, Tuchov, and Tolstoy handily stopped Murat and Eugene, though they did so in vain, as Bagration was already heading for Smolensk, having forsaken a meeting at Vitebsk.
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The Battle of Saltanovka saw Davout's I Corps d'armée confronted by Raevsky's VII Infantry Corps. It is unclear if Bagration was attempting to push Davout out of the way so he could march through the area to Vitebsk and link up with Barclay de Tolly or if it was a spoiling attack to prevent Davout from attacking him on the march. In any case, there was a desperate corps vs corps action south of Mogilev near the village of Saltanovka on 23 July 1812.
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