eleven o'clock
All this time the vessels were drifting as the winds and tide took them , and at last grounded on a shoal called The Neck , near Wydeness . Just as morning was breaking John Haring of Horn -- the man who had kept a thousand at bay on the Diemar Dyke , and who now commanded one of the vessels -- gained a footing on the deck of the Inquisition unnoticed by the Spaniards , and hauled down her colours ; but a moment later he fell dead , shot through the body . As soon as it was light the country people came off in boats and joined in the fight , relieving their compatriots by carrying their killed and wounded on shore . They brought fresh ammunition as well as men , and at eleven o'clock Admiral Bossu , seeing that further resistance was useless , and that his ship was aground on a hostile shore , his fleet dispersed and three-quarters of his soldiers and crew dead or disabled , struck his flag and surrendered with 300 prisoners . He was landed at Horn , and his captors had great difficulty in preventing him from being torn to pieces by the populace in return for the treacherous massacre at Rotterdam , of which he had been the author . During the long fight Ned Martin behaved with great bravery . Again and again he and Peters had led the boarders , and it was only his morion and breast piece that had saved him many times from death .