eleven o'clock
The enemy found one of the gates not only open , but unguarded . Although the town was impaled and might have been protected , there was so little thought of danger , that no one deemed it necessary to close the gate . The weather was very cold , and the English did not suppose an attack would be made . It was eleven o'clock and thirty minutes on Saturday night , February 8th , 1690 , when the enemy entered , divided their party , waylaid every portal and began the attack with a terrible war-whoop . Maulet attacked a garrison , where the only resistance was made . He soon forced the gate , slew the soldiers and burned the garrison . One of the French officers was wounded in forcing a house ; but St. Helene came to his aid , the house was taken , and all in it were put to the sword .