The crossing took no less than ten hours and a great part of it was done in wintry darkness.

When the army landed on the New Jersey shore it had a march of nine miles in sleet and rain in order to reach Trenton by daybreak.

It is said that some of the men marched barefoot leaving tracks of blood in the snow.

The arms of some were lost and those of others were wet and useless but Washington told them that they must depend the more on the bayonet.

He attacked Trenton in broad daylight.