ten in the morning
`` No , it can not be . It is impossible . '' It was indeed a battle of giants . From ten in the morning until seven in the evening , we had held our own against three hundred and sixty thousand men , without , at night , having lost an inch : and , nevertheless , we were but a hundred and thirty thousand . God keep me from speaking ill of the Germans . They were fighting for the independence of their country . But they might do better than celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Leipzig every year .