ten o'clock
In the trenches a low continuous murmur mingled with the voices of running water . On the right by the Guadiana waited Picton 's Third Division , breathing hard as the time drew nearer . Kempt commanded these for the moment . Picton was in camp attending to a hurt , but his men knew that before ten o'clock he would arrive to lead across the Rivillas by the narrow bridge and up to the walls of the Castle frowning over the river at the city 's north-east corner . In the centre and over against the wall to the left of the Castle were assembled Colville 's and Barnard 's men of the Fourth and Light Divisions . Theirs , according to the General 's plan , was to be the main business to-night -- to carry the breaches hammered in the Trinidad and Santa Maria bastions and the curtain between ; the Fourth told off for the Trinidad and the curtain , the Light Bobs for the Santa Maria -- heroes these of Moore 's famous rear-guard , tried men of the 52nd Foot and the 95th Rifles , with the 43rd beside them , and destined to pay the heaviest price of all to-night for the glory of such comradeship . But , indeed , Ciudad Rodrigo had given the 43rd a title to stand among the best .