eleven o’clock
In the meantime , it looks as if the king and his generals had made up their mind not to accept the gift . An attack on the Borgoforte tete-de-pont on the right side of the Po , began on 5th at half-past three in the morning , under the immediate direction of General Cialdini . The attacking corps was the Duke of Mignano 's . All the day yesterday the gun was heard at Torre Malamberti , as it was also this morning between ten and eleven o'clock . Borgoforte is a fortress on the left side of the Po , throwing a bridge across this river , the right end of which is headed by a strong tete-de-pont , the object of the present attack . This work may be said to belong to the quadrilateral , as it is only an advanced part of the fortress of Mantua , which , resting upon its rear , is connected to Borgoforte by a military road supported on the Mantua side by the Pietolo fortress . The distance between Mantua and Borgoforte is only eleven kilometres .