four o'clock in the afternoon
`` Did all of our men get shot ? '' `` No ; the cannonade produced very little effect , and Proctor grew very impatient . The long hot day was nearly done , and the Indians were becoming restless . At four o'clock in the afternoon he ordered all his guns to fire upon that weak northwest angle . `` Then Croghan and his men set to work to strengthen it as much as possible . They piled bags of sand and sacks of flour against the pickets there , which materially broke the force of the cannonade . At five o'clock a dark thunder cloud was seen in the west and the thunder seemed like the echo of the enemy 's cannon .