All 8 Uses of

fugitive
in
War and Peace

Evidently these fugitives were allowed to pass by special permission.†
Chpt 2 *

fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers

Our fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed.†
Chpt 2

Having forced his way out of the crowd of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutuzov, saw on the slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing and Frenchmen running toward it.†
Chpt 3

It's all up now!" he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who understood what was happening as little as he did.†
Chpt 3

Stein, a traitor expelled from his own country; Armfeldt, a rake and an intriguer; Wintzingerode, a fugitive French subject; Bennigsen, rather more of a soldier than the others, but all the same an incompetent who was unable to do anything in 1807 and who should awaken terrible memories in the Emperor Alexander's mind.... Granted that were they competent they might be made use of," continued Napoleon—hardly able to keep pace in words with the rush of thoughts that incessantly sprang up, proving how right and strong he was (in his perception the two were one and the same)—"but they are not even that!†
Chpt 9

fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers

The glow of the first fire that began on the second of September was watched from the various roads by the fugitive Muscovites and by the retreating troops, with many different feelings.†
Chpt 11

The condition of fugitives and of pursuers was equally bad.†
Chpt 15

fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers

Definitions:

(1) (fugitive as in: she is a fugitive)
someone who is running away or hiding to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Much more rarely, "fugitive" may describe something that lasts for a very short time; as in "a fugitive impression."