He also commanded his regiment at the Battle of White Plains and then captured General Charles Lee at Basking Ridge during the American Revolutionary War.

[2] He commanded the 16th Light Dragoons at the Battle of White Plains in October 1776 and then captured General Charles Lee at Basking Ridge in December 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.

[6] He bought St Leonard's Hill in Clewer from the Duke of Gloucester in 1781[7] and, having been promoted to major-general on 20 November 1782, he was then appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park.

Appointed Governor of Fort William on 21 March 1794,[9] he succeeded the Duke of York as commander during the Flanders Campaign and oversaw the British retreat and their final evacuation from Bremen in Spring 1795.

Where the original statue was to be placed in the south transept of Stanton Harcourt, now stands a plaster model, identical to the white marble figure at Windsor.

[16] On 3 September 1778 Harcourt married Mary, widow of Thomas Lockhart of Craig House in Scotland, and daughter of the Rev.