[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] McDougall was placed in command of West Point and Heath summoned from Massachusetts. June 23d the latter took command of all the troops on the east side of the Hudson, a post which he held until the end of the war, with the exception of the few months in 1780 that, he was in Rhode Island with Rochauibeau. Clinton gave up the attempt on the Highlands and sent General Tryon to Connecticut to scourge its 1 From Henry B>Dawson's " Historical Magazine" for December, 1870, p. 370, 371. 2 Peabody's " Life of Putnam." inhabitants into submission. Heath was ordered thither with two Connecticut brigades to prevent the carrying out of his plan. On the night of July 15th, Wayne took Stony Point at the point of the bayonet; this was to have been followed by an attempt on Fort Lafayette. This task was committed to Major-Gen-eral Howe with two brigades and some twelve-pound-ers. This movement recalled the British forces, which were then on the march down the Hudson. To pre-vent Clinton cutting oft* Howe, Heath was summoned from Connecticut to his assistance. He returned by forced marches. On the 18th, when at Drake's, at or near where Alfred Todd lives, on the Crompond road, he received word from Howe that Clinton was above the Croton River, pushing north, and ordered General Huntington's brigade with two field-pieces to hasten to the heights south of Peekskill 3 and take position there so as to command the road to Verplanck's and New Bridge.