 Complete the following phrase:  Charles Craufurd entered the 1st Dragoon Guards as a cornet on 15 December 1778. Promoted a lieutet in 1781, he was raised to the rank of captain in the 2nd Dragoon Guards Queens Bays in 1785. He became the equerry and intimate friend of the Duke of York. He studied in Germany for some time, and, with his brother Roberts assistance, translated Tielkes book on the Seven Years War The Remarkable Events of the War between Prussia, Austria and Russia from 1756 to 1763. As aide-de-camp he accompanied the Duke of York to the French War on the Netherlands in May 1793 attached to the Austrian HQs commander-in-chief. He was at once sent as commissioner to the Austrian headquarters, with which he was present at Neerwinden, Caesars Camp, Famars, 