[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] William Hull. Considering the heavy odds brought against him by the enemy during the exciting campaign that followed, he made a very creditable record. In the rirst few months of 1770 Sir Henry Clinton confined himself to ravaging the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Washington, whose headquarters were at Middlebrook, was not disturbed by these pro-ceedings, well knowing that the British general would soon turn his attention northward. The work at West Point had now made tolerably satisfactory progress, but Washington was dissatisfied with the comparatively unprotected condition of the river below. He par-ticularly desired to have the entrance to the narrow part of the stream, from Haverstraw Bay, well guarded — the more so as the important King's Ferry route from Verplanck's Point to the west shore was comparatively unsafe so long as this entrance remained unfortified. He therefore began the erection of two forts on the two promontories — Verplanck's Point on the Westchester side, and Stony Point opposite, which, when completed, "would form as it were the lower gates of the Highlands, miniature Pillars of Hercules, of which Stony Point was the Gibraltar." By the end of May the work on Verplanck's Point, called Fort Lafayette, was finished, and a garrison of seventy men was assigned to it. That on Stony Point, however, was still in an inchoate condition, and had not yet received any artillery.