four o’clock
Still D'Aubant remained inactive . The sailors , fired with indignation , worked even harder than before . Nelson now felt confident of success . He predicted that the place would fall between the 11th and 17th of May , and his prediction was fulfilled almost to the letter , for at four o'clock on the afternoon of the 11th a boat came out from the town to the _ Victory _ offering to surrender . That afternoon , General D'Aubant , having received some reinforcements from Gibraltar , arrived from San Fiorenzo only to find that the work he had pronounced impracticable had been done without his assistance . Will had spent the whole of his time during the siege on shore . He had laboured incessantly in getting the guns up to their positions , and had been placed in command of one of the batteries .