eleven in the evening
Four thousand armed men led by the king and prince stood bare-headed while Beethoven 's funeral march was played . Over each grave a squadron passed and fired a salute by way of military mourning . The municipal officers who had come to thank the king for his orders to the soldiers , which had been strictly carried out , were present at the ceremony . At eleven in the evening the men who were on guard towards the north announced that a large Prussian army was arriving by way of Mulhausen . It proved to be General Manteuffel 's . The third day after the battle , the Hanoverian army had received no news of the Bavarian army , and was surrounded by 30,000 men . Towards midday , a lieutenant-colonel came with a flag of truce , from General Manteuffel , to propose that the king should surrender .