about five o'clock
The general staff unanimously determined to march to Heiligenstadt , and the king consented . At last the army was to move on the morning of the 21st of June , at four o'clock , and a general cry of joy throughout all the quarters and cantonments greeted the order to march . In exemplary order , as on parade , the valiant brigades formed . The king left Göttingen about five o'clock , the senate of the university and the civic magistrates assembling to take leave of him . It was a brilliant and dazzling procession which in the early morning light crossed into the Prussian territory . A half squadron of the Cambridge dragoons formed the body-guard of their royal master . Mounted on a large and beautiful white horse , which was guided by Major Schweppe of the Guard Cuirassiers , with an almost imperceptible leading rein , rode George V. , with the proud knightly bearing which always gave him so imposing and regal an aspect when on horseback ; by his side came the crown prince in his hussar uniform , on a small thorough-bred horse .