eleven o'clock at
night
The next morning , though it was raining heavily , the British opened a severe cannonade and bombardment upon Fort Meigs , which they continued with slight intermissions for about five days ; but without doing much injury to the fort or garrison . `` Occasionally our men returned the fire by eighteen-pounders . But their supply of shot for these and the twelve-pounders was very small , and as they did not know how long the siege might last , it was thought best to use them very sparingly . `` The British seemed to have powder , balls , and shells in great abundance , and they poured a perfect storm of missiles -- not less than five hundred -- upon the fort the first day and until eleven o'clock at night . '' `` And was nobody hurt , papa ? '' asked Elsie . `` One or two of the garrison were killed , '' replied her father , `` and Major Stoddard of the First Regiment , a soldier of the Revolution , was so badly wounded by a shell that he died ten days later of lockjaw .