nine o'clock
We have beaten them fifty times since 1793 ; but if the father of Marie Louise had a heart , they would be with us now instead of against us . '' For some moments a cannonade had been going on at the other side of the city , where Blücher was attacking the faubourg of Halle . Soon after , the firing stretched along to the right ; it was Bernadotte attacking the faubourg of Kohlgartenthor , and at the same time the first shells of the Austrians fell in our covered ways ; they followed in file ; many passing over Hinterthor , burst in the houses and the streets of the faubourg . At nine o'clock the Austrians formed their columns of attack on the Caunewitz road , and poured down on us from all sides . Nevertheless we held our own until about ten o'clock , and then were forced back to the old ramparts , through the breaches of which the Kaiserliks pursued us under the cross-fire of the Fourteenth and Twenty-ninth of the line . The poor Austrians were not inspired with the fury of the Prussians , but nevertheless , showed a true courage ; for , at half-past ten they had won the ramparts , and although , from all the neighboring windows , we kept up a deadly fire , we could not force them back . Six months before it would have horrified me to think of men being thus slaughtered , but now I was as insensible as any old soldier , and the death of one man or of a hundred would not cost me a thought .