He was responsible for the final blows and surrender of the French flagship "Ville de Paris" on 12 April 1782. At the end of the war, Knight remained in command of "Barfleur" and was given personal responsibility for the naval education of the young Prince William who served aboard. After the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, Knight had periods in command of "Barfleur" in the Channel Fleet and HMS "Victory" in the Mediterranean, before taking over HMS "Monatgu" with the North Sea fleet. At the Nore Mutiny in 1797, "Montagu" was heavily involved, but Knight resumed command once the uprising had collapsed, and in October he was engaged at the Battle of Camperdown against the Dutch fleet. In 1798 he commanded a squadron off Ireland and the following year was in command of the blockade squadron off Brest. He also remarried, his first wife having died sometime previously, to a widow named Love Pickman Oliver. In 1801 Knight was promoted to rear-admiral, and in 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars he was named as commander at Gibraltar, where he remained for another ten years until the war's end in 1815 when he retired from the Navy as a full admiral and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. He settled with his family at Woodend House in Soberton, Hampshire, and died there in June 1831. Although he was respected professionally, Knight was not popular with his men or his fellow officers. Discipline aboard his ship was considered poor by naval standards, and his habit of bringing his wife and children to sea with him was criticised. Knight Inlet, on the coast of British Columbia Canada was named for him by Broughton who was imprisoned along with Knight in 1776.