When Roland arrived, he saw five or six dead men, and an officer being led away by the Arabs, who, while massacring the soldiers mercilessly, will sometimes spare the officers in hope of a ransom.

Roland recognized Sulkowsky; pointing him out with his sabre to his fifteen men, he charged at a gallop.
Half an hour later, a Guide, returning alone to head-quarters, announced the deaths of Sulkowsky, Roland and his twenty-one companions.
Bonaparte, as we have said, loved Roland as a brother, as a son, as he loved Eugene.

He wished to know all the details of the catastrophe, and questioned the Guide.

The man had seen an Arab cut off Sulkowsky's head and fasten it to his saddle-bow.

As for Roland, his horse had been killed.