eight o'clock
The troops then turned their attention to the men who , lying in shelter , were still maintaining their fire . There were fully a thousand of these , and the greater portion of our casualties took place from their fire , while the troops were occupied in repelling the main attack . It was not long , however , before bullets and shell proved too much for them ; and those who survived crawled away , to join their kinsmen behind the hills . It was eight o'clock now , and the victory had apparently been won . Some ten thousand of the Khalifa 's best troops had been killed or wounded . In the British division , one officer and one man had been killed , and three officers and sixty-five men wounded . The latter were at once placed on board the hospital barges .