two o'clock
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 . At two o'clock a magazine in the fort blew up , and not long after , just as Clive was about to give the order to storm , a white flag was seen fluttering at one of the bastions . A messenger was sent to the governor to arrange the capitulation , but when he was met by prevarication and pleas for delay the bombardment was once more resumed . A few minutes of this sufficed to bring the defenders to reason , and by five o'clock the English flag flew upon the walls . Clive postponed his entry until dawn on the following morning .