six o'clock
in the morning
It was there that they first received news of Wissembourg and Froeschwiller . After that his account was less clear , for he got the names of towns mixed , Nancy and Saint-Mihiel , Saint-Mihiel and Metz . There must have been heavy fighting on the 14th , for the sky was all on fire , but all he saw of it was four uhlans behind a hedge . On the 16th there was another engagement ; they could hear the artillery going as early as six o'clock in the morning , and he had been told that on the 18th they started the dance again , more lively than ever . But the chasseurs were not in it that time , for at Gravelotte on the 16th , as they were standing drawn up along a road waiting to wheel into column , the Emperor , who passed that way in a victoria , took them to act as his escort to Verdun . And a pretty little jaunt it was , twenty-six miles at a hard gallop , with the fear of being cut off by the Prussians at any moment ! `` And what of Bazaine ? ''