two o'clock in the afternoon
And then turning round to me -LRB- perhaps he was glad to change the conversation -RRB- , he said , `` Lieutenant Gahagan , you will stay with me . '' And well for him I did , for I do not hesitate to say that the battle WAS GAINED BY ME . I do not mean to insult the reader by pretending that any personal exertions of mine turned the day , -- that I killed , for instance , a regiment of cavalry or swallowed a battery of guns , -- such absurd tales would disgrace both the hearer and the teller . I , as is well known , never say a single word which can not be proved , and hate more than all other vices the absurd sin of egotism : I simply mean that my ADVICE to the General , at a quarter-past two o'clock in the afternoon of that day , won this great triumph for the British army . Gleig , Mill , and Thorn have all told the tale of this war , though somehow they have omitted all mention of the hero of it . General Lake , for the victory of that day , became Lord Lake of Laswaree . Laswaree !