 A few weeks later, Loftus had the honour of being selected with twenty picked light dragoons, as General Howe's personal guard at Pelham Manor.At White Plains, Howe chose him to lead the Hessian Grenadiers across the Bronx River, where he was wounded .His wounds were not critical and he was back in the field the following month, when he joined Lord Percy's brigade at the Battle of Fort Washington.