seven o'clock
'T was quite dusk before the fight ended , especially where the last rallied troops fought so long , and therefore we durst not break our order to seek out our friends , so that 't was near seven o'clock the next morning before we found the captain , who , though very weak by the loss of blood , had raised himself up , and placed his back against the buttock of a dead horse . I was the first that knew him , and running to him , embraced him with a great deal of joy ; he was not able to speak , but made signs to let me see he knew me , so we brought him into the camp , and Sir John Hepburn , as I noted before , sent his own surgeons to look after him . The darkness of the night prevented any pursuit , and was the only refuge the enemy had left : for had there been three hours more daylight ten thousand more lives had been lost , for the Swedes -LRB- and Saxons especially -RRB- enraged by the obstinacy of the enemy , were so thoroughly heated that they would have given quarter but to few . The retreat was not sounded till seven o'clock , when the king drew up the whole army upon the field of battle , and gave strict command that none should stir from their order ; so the army lay under their arms all night , which was another reason why the wounded soldiers suffered very much by the cold ; for the king , who had a bold enemy to deal with , was not ignorant what a small body of desperate men rallied together might have done in the darkness of the night , and therefore he lay in his coach all night at the head of the line , though it froze very hard . As soon as the day began to peep the trumpets sounded to horse , and all the dragoons and light-horse in the army were commanded to the pursuit . The cuirassiers and some commanded musketeers advanced some miles , if need were , to make good their retreat , and all the foot stood to their arms for a reverse ; but in half-an-hour word was brought to the king that the enemy were quite dispersed , upon which detachments were made out of every regiment to search among the dead for any of our friends that were wounded ; and the king himself gave a strict order , that if any were found wounded and alive among the enemy none should kill them , but take care to bring them into the camp -- a piece of humanity which saved the lives of near a thousand of the enemies . This piece of service being over , the enemy 's camp was seized upon , and the soldiers were permitted to plunder it ; all the cannon , arms , and ammunition was secured for the king 's use , the rest was given up to the soldiers , who found so much plunder that they had no reason to quarrel for shares .