ten o'clock
And when Maurice laid him down to sleep in the wood of Vincennes on the night of the 28th of November , with his comrades of the 115th , he was without a doubt of their success . The three corps of the second army were all there , and it was common talk that their junction with the army of the Loire had been fixed for the following day at Fontainebleau . Then ensued a series of mischances , the usual blunders arising from want of foresight ; a sudden rising of the river , which prevented the engineers from laying the pontoon bridge ; conflicting orders , which delayed the movement of the troops . The 115th was among the first regiments to pass the river on the following night , and in the neighborhood of ten o'clock , with Maurice in its ranks , it entered Champigny under a destructive fire . The young man was wild with excitement ; he fired so rapidly that his chassepot burned his fingers , notwithstanding the intense cold . His sole thought was to push onward , ever onward , surmounting every obstacle until they should join their brothers from the provinces over there across the river . But in front of Champigny and Bry the army fell up against the park walls of Coeuilly and Villiers , that the Prussians had converted into impregnable fortresses , more than a quarter of a mile in length .