nine o'clock in the morning
The _ tourlourous _ were the raw levies , of whom we had more than was quite comfortable . To balance this , Prince Eugene had in his army eighty royal princes , which in itself was enough to account for the strange paralysis of this active old general . But a dreadful misfortune lay in store for us . On the twelfth of June , at nine o'clock in the morning , Marshal , Duke of Berwick , while standing upon the banquette , and directing the captain of the siege , was struck by a cannon ball -- whether French or Austrian , was never known -- and was blown to pieces . In an instant of time he had made the whole journey from this country into the other one , and suffered not one pang . He had made twenty-nine campaigns , and had commanded in fifteen , and had never had his skin broken . Glory holds an invisible shield before her children .