[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] General McDougall, " on account of the prejudices of the people," who complained of his ill success in preventing the incursions of the enemy and of his lenity to the Tories. Doubtless the latter were very active and troublesome in this section during 1777 and 1778. 2 After the fall of Forts Clinton and Montgomery it was determined to re-fortify the Highlands, the prin-cipal defenses being constructed at West Point and Constitution Island, with chain between to obstruct navigation. In addition to these, two forts were built, Fort Lafayette, at Verplanck's, and the other at Stony Point opposite, as outposts to the works in the Highlands and as a defense to the ferry. May 30, 1779, Sir Henry Clinton made his second visit in per-son to this section. He was accompanied by five thousand troops and a fleet under Sir George Collier. Next morning General Vaughan landed seven or eight miles north of Verplanck's, on the east side of the river. Clinton himself at Haverstraw, on the opposite side, three miles below Stony Point. The fort at the latter place was abandoned on the approach of the enemy by its garrison of twenty men. On the follow-ing morning Fort Lafayette was cannonaded and sur-rendered by its feeble garrison of only seventy men. Washington left the main army at Smith's Cove, in the rear of Haverstraw and established his head-quarters at New Windsor in order to push forward the works of defense in the Highlands.