one o'clock in the morning
`` Correct ; God go with you ! '' The night on which the two companies reached Nieva was the one chosen by Don César 's friends to sound the battle-cry and seize the factory . The conspiracy was well planned . At one o'clock in the morning fifty men were to meet in the garden of a rich Carlist proprietor , and fifty more in the wine-cellar of another , to arm and equip themselves . At two precisely they were all to march against the factory , the guard of which , at this time under command of the young Marqués de Peñalta , did not exceed twenty-five men , and attack it ostensibly at the doors , while others should scale the walls in the rear . Once inside they would quickly seize upon the arms already manufactured , loading them upon mules which were in readiness , set fire to the workshops , and haste away from the town . In case they should be attacked , they expected to raise easily five or six hundred men well provided with arms and ammunition .