Jeffrey Amherst, painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1765

Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (sometimes spelled Geoffrey, or Jeffrey, he himself spelled his name as Jeffery) (January 29, 1717 – August 3, 1797) served as an officer in the British Army. Image File history File links Amherst. ... Image File history File links Amherst. ... Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds (July 16, 1723–February 23, 1792) was the most important and influential of eighteenth-century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the Grand Style in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. ... January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events January 4 — The Netherlands, Britain & France sign Triple Alliance February 26-March 6 What is now the northeastern United States was paralyzed by a series of blizzards that buried the region. ... August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...

Born in Sevenoaks, England, he became a soldier at approximately the age of 14. He gained fame during the Seven Years' War, particularly in the North American campaign known in the United States as the French and Indian War. Sevenoaks is a town in Kent, in south-east England. ... Combatants Prussia, Great Britain, Hanover Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, Saxony The Seven Years War (1756–1763), some of whose theatres are called the Pomeranian War and the French and Indian War, was hailed by Winston Churchill as the first world war[1], as it was the first conflict in human... The conflict resulted in Frances loss of most of its possessions in North America. ...

Amherst led the British attack in 1758 on Louisbourg (the Siege of Louisbourg), and as commander-in-chief of the British army in North America, helped the British seize most French territory in Canada. In 1759 he led an advance up Lake Champlain assisting in Wolfe's capture of Quebec City and on September 8, 1760, he captured Montreal ending French rule in North America, where he infuriated the French commanders by refusing them the "honours of war" (the ceremonial right to retain their flags); the Duke of Lévis burned the colours rather than surrendering them. He held the position of military governor of Canada from 1760 to 1763. Fortress Louisbourg (fr. ... Fortress Louisbourg (fr. ... Landsat photo Lake Champlain, named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who encountered it 1609, is a large lake in North America, mostly within the borders of the United States (states of Vermont and New York) but partially situated across the US-Canada border in Quebec. ... The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West. ... Motto: « Don de Dieu feray valoir Â» (I shall put Gods gift to good use) Site in the province of Quebec Official logo Provincial region Province Country Capitale-Nationale Quebec Canada Gentilé Québécois, Québécoise Mayor Term Andrée P. Boucher 2005-2009 Federal Members of Parliament... 1760 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area  - % water 366. ... HI A governor is also, a monkey who is smart and can fly like a penguin is a device that regulates the speed of a machine. ...

The hostility between the British and Native Americans ("Indians") after the French and Indian War led to the first documented attempt at biological warfare in North American history. In response to the 1763 uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion, Amherst suggested using smallpox as a weapon for ending the rebellion. In a series of letters to his subordinate Colonel Henry Bouquet, the two men discussed the possibility of infecting the attacking Indians with smallpox through gifts of blankets that had been exposed to the disease. Apparently unbeknownst to both Amherst and Bouquet, the commander at Fort Pitt had already attempted this very tactic. Although Amherst's name is usually connected with this germ warfare because he was the overall commander and because of his correspondence with Bouquet, evidence appears to indicate that the attempt was made without Amherst's prior knowledge. Besides using smallpox the two gentlemen contemplated another method: "As it is a pity to expose good men against them, I wish we could make use of the Spanish method, to hunt them with English dogs." Amherst lamented that the remoteness of merry England made the canine aid impracticable. (See Pontiac's Rebellion for more details.) An Atsina named Assiniboin Boy Photo by Edward S. Curtis. ... Combatants British Empire American Indians Commanders Jeffrey Amherst Henry Bouquet Pontiac Guyasuta Pontiacs Rebellion was a war launched in 1763 by North American Indians who were dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region and the Ohio Country after the British victory in the French and Indian War... Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious viral disease unique to humans. ... Henry Bouquet (1719 – September 2, 1765) was a noted British army officer in the French and Indian War and Pontiacs War. ... Fort Pitt was a fort in what is now Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. ... Combatants British Empire American Indians Commanders Jeffrey Amherst Henry Bouquet Pontiac Guyasuta Pontiacs Rebellion was a war launched in 1763 by North American Indians who were dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region and the Ohio Country after the British victory in the French and Indian War...

After the taking of Montreal in 1760, Amherst built Montreal House in his native Sevenoaks, Kent, for his seat. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the house and family hosted an annual summer picnic for the children educated at the junior school they established in the village of Riverhead; the school still bears Amherst's coat of arms. With the decline of the family's fortunes the house was knocked down in the late 20th Century to make way for a housing development; only a single obelisk and the octangular gatehouse remain. Image File history File links Jeffrey_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst. ...

The towns of Amherst, Massachusetts, location of Amherst College; Amherst, New Hampshire; Amherst, Nova Scotia; Amherst, New York;Amherst County, Virginia; and Amherst Island Ontario were named for him. Amherst is a town located in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. ... Amherst College is an independent liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. It is the third oldest college in Massachusetts. ... Amherst is a town located in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. ... Amherst is a town in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, approximately 194 kilometres northwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia. ... Amherst, named the safest town in America, is located in Erie County, New York, directly northeast of the City of Buffalo. ... Amherst County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ... Amherst Island is an island in Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ontario. ...

See also: List of Canadian Governors General The following is a list of the Governors and Governors General of Canada and the previous territories and colonies that now make up the country. ...

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Historical Biographies: Jeffrey Amherst
• Amherst and Smallpox

Bibliography

• Long, J.C. Lord Jeffery Amherst: A Soldier of the King. New York: MacMillan, 1933.
• Amherst and the conquest of Canada : selected papers from the correspondence of Major-General Jeffrey Amherst while Commander-in-Chief in North America from September 1758 to December 1760 / edited by Richard Middleton. Stroud : Sutton Publishing for the Army Records Society, 2003. ISBN 0750931426.