midnight
He went out through a back door of the castle very secretly , and no one saw him . Then he went into the Moors ' camp . When he thought the time right , he threw the explosives into the camp , near the tent of a great captain who was a relative of the Moorish king . And when it was almost midnight the fire broke out , and it grew so great and so terrible that everyone was astonished at the enormous flames . The king and the other Moors , unarmed , hurried to where the fire was greatest in order to put it out . But instead of being extinguished , the more water they threw on it , the more brightly it burned . When the King of England saw the huge fire , he went out of the city , armed , and with the few men he still had he attacked the Moors .