eleven o'clock
By eight o'clock they had pushed the attack home , and passed the line of walls and hedges a hundred yards from our position . The situation was growing serious when , leaving me in command , Grant went out with ten Ghoorkhas , crept along unobserved to the end of one of the walls and , turning this , made a sudden attack upon the enemy from behind . Taken wholly by surprise they fled , leaving six or seven dead behind them . `` At eleven o'clock they were again pressing hotly and , encouraged by the success of his first sortie , Grant determined to make another . This time he took me with him . With six Ghoorkhas he had driven the enemy from one hedge , when he discovered a party of about sixty men behind a wall , twenty yards distant . '' ` Now , my lads , ' he said , ` we have got to run the gauntlet , but you need not be afraid of their fire .