ten o'clock
During the night each man took up his position for the next day , and supped and slept in the open . A reserve of eight hundred men had been lodged in Aschaffenburg to defend the town if it were attacked . The night passed without disturbance . At ten o'clock , Karl , growing impatient , mounted his horse and leaving the command of his men to Benedict galloped off towards the Prussians who at last were beginning to march . In the course of his gallop Karl went up to Count Monte Nuovo and brought back the guns , which were put in position across the road . Four felled trees made a sort of entrenchment for the artillery . Karl got on to this entrenchment with his two Styrians , who took their flutes from their pockets , as if on parade , and began to play their sweetest and most charming airs .