eight o'clock
Some said : `` It is a thunder-storm ! '' others , `` It is cannon ! '' Great numbers of disbanded soldiers were following us . At eight o'clock we reached Quatre-Bras . There are two houses opposite each other at the intersection of the road from Nivelles to Namur with that from Brussels to Charleroi . They were both full of wounded men . It was here that Marshal Ney had given battle to the English , to prevent them from going to the support of the Prussians along the road by which we had just come .