nine o'clock
`` Mr. Speke , '' said Clive , turning to the captain , `` may I ask you to see this man safe bestowed ? I will deal with him when our business here is concluded . `` Mr. Burke , you will come with me . '' By nine o'clock Clive had landed his troops . They bivouacked on the shore , in expectation of storming the fort next day . At daybreak an officer was sent into the fort with a flag of truce to demand its surrender . This being refused , the admiral ordered his ships to warp within a cable 's length of the walls in three fathoms and a quarter water , and the attack was renewed by sea and land , Clive gradually advancing and worrying the enemy with his cannon .