Fall in with the men there.

Where are your horses ?" "We left them on the other side, sir." "Well, they will have to stay there for this time, and you 'll have to go on foot with the rest." "Thank you, sir," said the men, eagerly, darting off in the darkness.
"That's a proper spirit, isn't it?
Well, to your stations, gentlemen! We have nothing to do now but wait.

Don't allow the men to lie down or to sleep, on any account." And wait they did, for four long hours, the general sitting motionless and silent on his horse, wrapped in his heavy cloak, unheeding, alike, the whirling snow or the cutting sleet of the storm, which grew fiercer every moment.

He strained his eyes out into the blackness of the river from time to time, or looked anxiously at the troops, clustered about the fires, or tramping restlessly up and down in their places to ward off the deadly attack of the awful winter night, while some of them sought shelter, behind trees and hillocks, from the fury of the storm.
Filled with his own pregnant thoughts, and speaking to no one, he waited, and no man ventured to break his silence.

At half after three General Knox, whose resolute will and iron strength had been exerted to the full, and whose mighty voice had been heard from time to time above the shriek of the fierce wind, was able to report that he had got all the artillery over without the loss of a man, a horse, or a gun, and was ready to proceed.