ten o'clock
He felt that he was the one and only coward in the King 's Own , and prayed and planned his behaviour day and night to avoid being found out . In this state of mind he landed at Gibraltar . When the order came for the 4th to move up to the front , he cheered with the rest , watching their faces . At ten o'clock on the night of April 6th , 1812 , our troops were to assault Badajos . It was now a few minutes past nine . The night had closed in without rain , but cloudy and thick , with river fog . The moon would not rise for another hour or more .