two o’clock
After the major had delivered the receipt , the three messengers entered into a courteous conversation , during which Colonel Bariola seized an opportunity of presenting the duke , purposely laying stress on the fact of his belonging to one of the most illustrious families of Naples . It happened that the Austrian major had also been trained in the same school where Colonel Bariola was brought up -- a circumstance of which he was reminded by the Austrian officer himself . Three hours had scarcely elapsed from the arrival of the two Italian messengers of war at Le Grazie , on the Austrian frontier , when they were already on their way back to the headquarters of Cremona , where during the night the rumour was current that a telegram had been received by Lamarmora from Verona , in which Archduke Albert accepted the challenge . Victor Emmanuel , whom I saw at Bologna yesterday , arrived at Cremona in the morning at two o'clock , but by this time his Majesty 's headquarters must have removed more towards the front , in the direction of the Oglio . I should not be at all surprised were the Italian headquarters to be established by to-morrow either at Piubega or Gazzoldo , if not actually at Goito , a village , as you know , which marks the Italian-Austrian frontier on the Mincio . The whole of the first , second , and third Italian corps d'armee are by this time concentrated within that comparatively narrow space which lies between the position of Castiglione , Delle Stiviere , Lorrato , and Desenzano , on the Lake of Garda , and Solferino on one side ; Piubega , Gazzoldo , Sacca , Goito , and Castellucchio on the other . Are these three corps d'armee to attack when they hear the roar of Cialdini 's artillery on the right bank of the Po ?