Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

"Lord Amherst" redirects here. For the first earl, see William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst. For other uses, see Amherst.

The Right Honourable Field Marshal The Lord Amherst KB
Portrait by Joshua Reynolds
Commander-in-Chief, North America
In office 1758–1763
Crown Governor of Virginia
In office 1759–1768
Monarchs	George II George III
Preceded by	The Earl of Loudoun
Succeeded by	The Lord Botetourt
Governor of the Province of Quebec
In office 1760–1763
Monarch	George III
Preceded by	Post created, replacing the French post of Governor General of New France
Succeeded by	James Murray
Personal details
Born	(1717-01-29)29 January 1717 Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Died	3 August 1797(1797-08-03) (aged 80) Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Resting place	Parish Church, Sevenoaks
Awards	Order of the Bath
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
Branch/service	British Army
Years of service	1735–1795
Rank	Field marshal
Commands	15th Regiment of Foot North America 62nd (Royal American) Regiment 3rd Regiment of Foot Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance Commander-in-Chief of the Forces 2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards The Queen's Troop of Horse Guards 2nd Regiment of Life Guards
Battles/wars	War of the Austrian Succession Seven Years' War Pontiac's Rebellion American Revolutionary War French Revolutionary Wars

Field Marshal Jeffery^{[n 1]} Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, KB (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army. Amherst is credited as the architect of Britain's successful campaign to conquer the territory of New France during the Seven Years' War. Under his command, British forces captured the cities of Louisbourg, Quebec City and Montreal, as well as several major fortresses. He was also the first British governor general in the territories that eventually became Canada. Numerous places and streets are named after him, in both Canada and the United States.

Amherst's legacy is controversial due to his expressed desire to spread smallpox among the disaffected tribes of Indians during Pontiac's War. This has led to a reconsideration of his legacy. In 2019, the city of Montreal removed his name from a street, renaming it Rue Atateken, from the Kanien'kéha Mohawk language.^[1]

Early life

Born the son of Jeffrey Amherst (d. 1750), a Kentish lawyer,^[2] and Elizabeth Amherst (née Kerrill),^[3] Jeffery Amherst was born in Sevenoaks, England, on 29 January 1717.^[4] At an early age, he became a page to the Duke of Dorset.^[4] Amherst became an ensign in the Grenadier Guards in 1735.^[5]

Amherst served in the War of the Austrian Succession becoming an aide to General John Ligonier and participating in the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743 and the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745.^[6] Promoted to lieutenant colonel on 25 December 1745, he also saw action at the Battle of Rocoux in October 1746.^[7] He then became an aide to the Duke of Cumberland, the commander of the British forces, and saw further action at the Battle of Lauffeld in July 1747.^[7]

Seven Years' War

Germany

Further information: Great Britain in the Seven Years War

Main article: Invasion of Hanover (1757)

In February 1756, Amherst was appointed commissar to the Hessian forces that had been assembled to defend Hanover as part of the Army of Observation: as it appeared likely a French invasion attempt against Britain itself was imminent, Amherst was ordered in April to arrange the transportation of thousands of the Germans to southern England to bolster Britain's defences.^[8] He was made colonel of the 15th Regiment of Foot on 12 June 1756.^[9] By 1757 as the immediate danger to Britain had passed the troops were moved back to Hanover to join a growing army under the Duke of Cumberland and Amherst fought with the Hessians under Cumberland's command at the Battle of Hastenbeck in July 1757:^[7] the Allied defeat there forced the army into a steady retreat northwards to Stade near the North Sea coast.^[10]

Amherst was left dispirited by the retreat and by the Convention of Klosterzeven by which Hanover agreed to withdraw from the war: he began to prepare to disband the Hessian troops under his command, only to receive word that the Convention had been repudiated and the Allied force was being reformed.^[11]

French and Indian War

Amherst gained fame during the Seven Years' War, particularly in the North American campaign known in the United States as the French and Indian War when he led the British attack on Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island in June 1758.^[7]

In the wake of this action, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the British army in North America and colonel-in-chief of the 60th (Royal American) Regiment in September 1758.^[7] Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.^[7] Amherst served as the nominal Crown Governor of Virginia from 12 September 1759.^[12]

Grateful Reflexions on the Signal Appearances of Divine Providence for Great Britain and its Colonies in America. 1760

From July 1760, Amherst led an army down the Saint Lawrence River from Fort Oswego, joined with Brigadier Murray from Quebec and Brigadier Haviland from Ile-aux-Noix in a three-way pincer,^[13] and captured Montreal, ending French rule in North America on 8 September.^[7] He infuriated the French commanders by refusing them the honours of war; the Chevalier de Lévis burned the colours rather than surrendering them,^[14] to highlight his differences with Vaudreuil for later political advantage back in France.^[13]

The British settlers were relieved and proclaimed a day of thanksgiving. Boston newspapers recount how the occasion was celebrated with a parade, a grand dinner in Faneuil Hall, music, bonfires, and firing of cannon. The Rev. Thomas Foxcroft of the First Church in Boston offered thus:^[13]

The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad... Long had it been the common opinion, Delenda est Carthago, Canada must be conquered, or we could hope for no lasting quiet in these parts; and now, through the good hand of our God upon us, we see the happy day of its accomplishment. We behold His Majesty's victorious troops treading upon the high places of the enemy, their last fortress delivered up, and the whole country surrendered to the King of Britain in the person of his general, the intrepid, the serene, the successful Amherst.

In recognition of this victory, Amherst was appointed Governor-General of British North America in September 1760^[7] and promoted to major-general on 29 November 1760.^[15] He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath on 11 April 1761.^[16]

From his base at New York, Amherst oversaw the dispatch of troops under Monckton and Haviland^[17] to take part in British expeditions in the West Indies that led to the British capture of Dominica in 1761 and Martinique and Cuba in 1762.^[3]

Pontiac's War

Main article: Pontiac's War

The uprising of many Native American tribes in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region, commonly referred to as Pontiac's War after one of its most notable leaders, began in early 1763. From 1753, when the French first invaded the territory, to February 1763, when peace was formally declared between the English and French, the Six Nations and tenant tribes always maintained that both the French and the British must remain east of the Allegheny Mountains. After the British failed to keep their word to withdraw from the Ohio and Allegheny valleys, a loose confederation of Native American tribes including the Delawares, the Shawnees, the Senecas, the Mingoes, the Mohicans, the Miamis, the Ottawas and the Wyandots, who were opposed to British post-war occupation of the region, banded together in an effort to drive the British out of their territory.^[18][19]

One of the most infamous and well-documented issues during Pontiac's War was the use of biological warfare against Native Americans and Amherst's role in supporting it. Colonel Henry Bouquet, the commander of Fort Pitt, ordered smallpox-infested blankets to be given Native Americans when a group of them laid siege to the fortification in June 1763.^[20][21][22] During a parley in midst of the siege on 24 June 1763, Captain Simeon Ecuyer gave representatives of the besieging Delawares two blankets and a handkerchief enclosed in small metal boxes that had been exposed to smallpox, in an attempt to spread the disease to the Natives in order to end the siege.^[23] William Trent, the trader turned militia commander who had come up with the plan, sent an invoice to the British colonial authorities in North America indicating that the purpose of giving the blankets was "to Convey the Smallpox to the Indians." The invoice was approved by Thomas Gage, then serving as Commander-in-Chief, North America.^[20][21] Reporting on parleys with Delaware chiefs on 24 June, Trent wrote: '[We] gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.' The military hospital records confirm that two blankets and handkerchiefs were 'taken from people in the Hospital to Convey the Smallpox to the Indians.' The fort commander paid for these items, which he certified 'were had for the uses above mentioned.'^[24][25] A reported outbreak that began the spring before left as many as one hundred Native Americans dead in Ohio Country from 1763 to 1764. It is not clear, however, whether the smallpox was a result of the Fort Pitt incident or the virus was already present among the Delaware people as outbreaks happened on their own every dozen or so years^[26] and the delegates were met again later and they seemingly had not contracted smallpox.^[27][28][29]

A month later the use of smallpox blankets was discussed by Amherst himself in letters to Bouquet.^[30] Amherst, having learned that smallpox had broken out among the garrison at Fort Pitt, and after learning of the loss of his forts at Venango, Le Boeuf and Presqu'Isle, wrote to Colonel Bouquet:^[24]

Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them.

Bouquet, who was already marching to relieve Fort Pitt from the siege, agreed with this suggestion in a postscript when he responded to Amherst just days later on 13 July 1763:^[31]

P.S. I will try to inocculate [sic] the Indians by means of Blankets that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to get the disease myself. As it is pity to oppose good men against them, I wish we could make use of the Spaniard's Method, and hunt them with English Dogs. Supported by Rangers, and some Light Horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that Vermine.

In response, also in a postscript, Amherst replied:^[31]

P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate [sic] the Indians by means of Blankets, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race. I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by Dogs could take Effect, but England is at too great a Distance to think of that at present.

Amherst was summoned home, ostensibly so that he could be consulted on future military plans in North America, and was replaced pro tem as Commander-in-Chief, North America by Thomas Gage. Amherst expected to be praised for his conquest of Canada, however, once in London, he was instead asked to account for the recent Native American rebellion.^[32] He was forced to defend his conduct, and faced complaints made by William Johnson and George Croghan, who lobbied the Board of Trade for his removal and permanent replacement by Gage. He was also severely criticised by military subordinates on both sides of the Atlantic.^[33] Nevertheless, Amherst was promoted to lieutenant-general on 26 March 1765,^[34] and became colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot in November 1768.^[35]

On 22 October 1772, Amherst was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance,^[36] and he soon gained the confidence of George III, who had initially hoped the position would go to a member of the Royal Family.^[37] On 6 November 1772, he became a member of the Privy Council.^[38]

Commander-in-Chief

American Revolutionary War

Main article: American Revolutionary War

Amherst was raised to the peerage on 14 May 1776, as Baron Amherst, of Holmesdale in the County of Kent.^[39] On 24 March 1778 he was promoted to full general^[40] and, in April 1778, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, which gave him a seat in the Cabinet.^[35]

In 1778, when the British commander in North America, William Howe, requested to be relieved, Amherst was considered as a replacement by the government: however, his insistence that it would require 75,000 troops to fully defeat the rebellion was not acceptable to the government, and Henry Clinton was instead chosen to take over from Howe in America.^[41] Following the British setback at Saratoga, Amherst successfully argued for a limited war in North America, keeping footholds along the coast, defending Canada, East and West Florida, and the West Indies while putting more effort into the war at sea.^[42] On 7 November 1778 the King and Queen visited Amherst at his home, Montreal Park, in Kent^[43] and on 24 April 1779 he became colonel of the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards.^[44]

A long-standing plan of the French had been the concept of an invasion of Great Britain which they hoped would lead to a swift end to the war if it was successful: in 1779 Spain entered the war on the side of France, and the increasingly depleted state of British home forces made an invasion more appealing and Amherst organised Britain's land defences in anticipation of the invasion which never materialised.^[3]

Gordon Riots

Main article: Gordon Riots

In June 1780, Amherst oversaw the British army as they suppressed the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London. After the outbreak of rioting Amherst deployed the small London garrison of Horse and Foot Guards as well as he could but was hindered by the reluctance of the civil magistrates to authorise decisive action against the rioters.^[45]

Line troops and militia were brought in from surrounding counties, swelling the forces at Amherst's disposal to over 15,000, many of whom were quartered in tents in Hyde Park, and a form of martial law was declared, giving the troops the authority to fire on crowds if the Riot Act had first been read. Although order was eventually restored, Amherst was personally alarmed by the failure of the authorities to suppress the riots.^[46]

In the wake of the Gordon Riots, Amherst was forced to resign as Commander-in-Chief in February 1782 and was replaced by Henry Conway.^[35] On 23 March 1782 he became captain and colonel of the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards.^[47]

Later life

French Revolutionary Wars

On 8 July 1788, he became colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards^[48] and on 30 August 1788 he was created Baron Amherst (this time with the territorial designation of Montreal in the County of Kent) with a special provision that would allow this title to pass to his nephew (as Amherst was childless, the Holmesdale title became extinct upon his death).^[49]

With the advent of the French Revolutionary Wars, Amherst was recalled as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in January 1793: however is generally criticised for allowing the armed forces to slide into acute decline, a direct cause of the failure of the early campaigns in the Low Countries: Pitt the Younger said of him "his age, and perhaps his natural temper, are little suited to the activity and the energy which the present moment calls for".^[50] Horace Walpole called him "that log of wood whose stupidity and incapacity are past belief".^[51] "He allowed innumerable abuses to grow up in the army… He kept his command, though almost in his dotage, with a tenacity that cannot be too much censured".^[52]

Family and death

In 1753 he married Jane Dalison (1723–1765).^[53] Following her death he married Elizabeth Cary (1740–1830), daughter of Lieutenant General George Cary (1712–1792),^[54] who later became Lady Amherst of Holmesdale, on 26 March 1767.^[3] There were no children by either marriage.^[3] He retired from that post in February 1795, to be replaced by the Duke of York, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal on 30 July 1796.^[55] He retired to his home at Montreal Park^[56] and died on 3 August 1797.^[35] He was buried in the Parish Church at Sevenoaks.^[3]

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  On 26 March 1767 Jeffrey Amherst married Elizabeth, daughter of General George Cary (portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1767).
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  Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Legacy

Several places are named for him: Amherst Island, Ontario,^[57] Amherstburg, Ontario (location of General Amherst High School),^[58] Amherst, Massachusetts (location of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hampshire College and Amherst College),^[59] Amherst, New Hampshire,^[60] Amherst, Nova Scotia,^[61] Amherst, New York^[62] and Amherst County, Virginia.^[63]

Amherst's desire to exterminate the indigenous people is now viewed as a dark stain on his legacy and various agencies, municipalities and institutions have reconsidered the use of the name "Amherst". "The Un-Canadians", a 2007 article in The Beaver, includes Amherst in a list of people in the history of Canada who are considered contemptible by the authors, because he "supported plans of distributing smallpox-infested blankets to First Nations people".^[64]

In 2008, Mi'kmaq spiritual leader John Joe Sark called the name of Fort Amherst Park of Prince Edward Island a "terrible blotch on Canada", and said: "To have a place named after General Amherst would be like having a city in Jerusalem named after Adolf Hitler...it's disgusting." Sark raised his concerns again in a 29 January 2016 letter to the Canadian government.^[65] Mi'kmaq historian Daniel N. Paul, who referred to Amherst as motivated by white supremacist beliefs, also supports a name change, saying: "in the future I don't think there should ever be anything named after people who committed what can be described as crimes against humanity."^[66] In February 2016, a spokesperson for Parks Canada said it would review the matter after a proper complaint is filed; "Should there be a formal request from the public to change the name of the National Historic Site, Parks Canada would engage with the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada for its recommendation."^[67] An online petition was launched by Sark to satisfy this formal request requirement on 20 February 2016.^[68] On 16 February 2018, the site was renamed Skmaqn–Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst, adding a Mi'kmaq word alongside the French and English titles.^[69]

In 2009, Montreal City Councillor Nicolas Montmorency officially asked that Rue Amherst be renamed: "it is totally unacceptable that a man who made comments supporting the extermination of Native Americans to be honoured in this way".^[70] On 13 September 2017, the city of Montreal decided that the street bearing his name would be renamed.^[71] On 21 June 2019, the street was officially renamed Rue Atateken, atateken being a Kanien'kehá word describing "those with whom one shares values," according to Kanehsatake historian Hilda Nicholas.^[72] Similarly, Rue Amherst in Gatineau was renamed Rue Wìgwàs (Anishinaabemowin for white birch) in 2023.^[73]

In 2016, Amherst College dropped its "Lord Jeffery" mascot at the instigation of the students.^[74] It also renamed the Lord Jeffery Inn, a campus hotel owned by the college, to the Inn on Boltwood in early 2019.^[75]

See also

• List of governors general of Canada
• Turtleheart

Explanatory notes

1. Lord Amherst spelled his name Jeffery, but Jeffrey and Geoffrey sometimes appear in sources discussing him.

References

Citations

1. "Amherst Street becomes 'Atateken,' symbolizing fraternity and peace"
2. Chartrand p. 24
3. "Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/443. Retrieved 28 April 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. Heathcote p. 23
5. Mayo p. 8
6. Mayo pp. 11–15
7. Heathcote p. 24
8. Mayo pp. 34–37
9. "No. 9590". The London Gazette. 8 June 1756. p. 2.
10. Mayo pp. 37–38
11. Mayo pp. 40–42
12. "No. 9930". The London Gazette. 11 September 1759. p. 1.
13. Parkman, Francis: "Montcalm and Wolfe"
14. Hayes, p. 77
15. "No. 10056". The London Gazette. 25 November 1760. p. 11.
16. "No. 10094". The London Gazette. 7 April 1761. p. 2.
17. Krugler, John D. (1979). "Haviland, William". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
18. The Indian wars of Pennsylvania; C. Hale Sipe; The Telegraph Press; 1921; pp. 407–438
19. Richard Middleton, Pontiac's War, pp. 1–128.
20. Calloway, Collin G. (2007). The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (Pivotal Moments in American History). Oxford University Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0195331271.
21. Jones, David S. (2004). Rationalizing Epidemics. Harvard University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0674013056.
22. McConnel, Michael N. (1997). A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724–1774. University of Nebraska Press. p. 195.
23. Anderson, Crucible of War, 541–42; Jennings, Empire of Fortune, 447n26.
24. Fenn, Elizabeth A. Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst Archived 3 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine; The Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 4, March 2000
25. Kiernan, p. 245
26. King, J. C. H. (2016). Blood and Land: The Story of Native North America. Penguin UK. p. 73. ISBN 9781846148088.
27. Ranlet, P (2000). "The British, the Indians, and smallpox: what actually happened at Fort Pitt in 1763?". Pennsylvania History. 67 (3): 427–441. PMID 17216901.
28. Barras V, Greub G (June 2014). "History of biological warfare and bioterrorism". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 20 (6): 497–502. doi:10.1111/1469-0691.12706. PMID 24894605. However, in the light of contemporary knowledge, it remains doubtful whether his hopes were fulfilled, given the fact that the transmission of smallpox through this kind of vector is much less efficient than respiratory transmission, and that Native Americans had been in contact with smallpox >200 years before Ecuyer's trickery, notably during Pizarro's conquest of South America in the 16th century. As a whole, the analysis of the various 'pre-micro- biological" attempts at BW illustrate the difficulty of differentiating attempted biological attack from naturally occurring epidemics.
29. Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare. Government Printing Office. 2007. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-16-087238-9. In retrospect, it is difficult to evaluate the tactical success of Captain Ecuyer's biological attack because smallpox may have been transmitted after other contacts with colonists, as had previously happened in New England and the South. Although scabs from smallpox patients are thought to be of low infectivity as a result of binding of the virus in fibrin metric, and transmission by fomites has been considered inefficient compared with respiratory droplet transmission.
30. Appel, J. M. (2009), "Is all fair in biological warfare? The controversy over genetically engineered biological weapons", Journal of Medical Ethics, 35 (7): 429–432, doi:10.1136/jme.2008.028944, PMID 19567692, S2CID 1643086
31. "Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets". University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
32. Anderson pp. 552–553
33. Middleton, Pontiac's War, 127–28. O'Toole p. 249
34. "No. 10507". The London Gazette. 23 March 1765. p. 1.
35. Heathcote p. 25
36. "No. 11294". The London Gazette. 20 October 1772. p. 1.
37. Patterson p. 93
38. "No. 11298". The London Gazette. 3 November 1772. p. 1.
39. "No. 11665". The London Gazette. 11 May 1776. p. 2.
40. "No. 11859". The London Gazette. 21 March 1788. p. 1.
41. Hibbert. Redcoats and Rebels p. 211
42. Hibbert. Redcoats and Rebels. p209
43. "No. 11924". The London Gazette. 3 November 1778. p. 1.
44. "No. 11972". The London Gazette. 20 April 1779. p. 2.
45. Mansel, page 126
46. Hibbert King Mob. p. 102
47. "No. 12280". The London Gazette. 19 March 1782. p. 1.
48. "No. 13005". The London Gazette. 5 July 1788. p. 325.
49. "No. 13020". The London Gazette. 26 August 1788. p. 413.
50. Burne p. 209
51. Burne p. 227
52. Burne p. 228
53. "William Amherst letter to Jane Dalison Amherst, 1758". Retrieved 14 September 2017.
54. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 121. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
55. "No. 13918". The London Gazette. 2 August 1796. p. 743.
56. Nunnerley, David. "A History of Montreal Park". Archived from the original on 20 July 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
57. "Island History – Amherst Island". Retrieved 25 March 2024.
58. Jacobson p. 17
59. Tucker p. 14
60. Farmer p. 70
61. Heim p. 343
62. "A Brief History of the Town of Amherst" (PDF). Amherst Museum. 1997. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
63. Smith p. 182
64. "The Un-Canadians". Beaver, Vol. 87 Issue 4, p. 30. August–September 2007. Archived from the original on 24 June 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
65. "P.E.I. park honours general who wanted aboriginals killed, Mi'kmaq leader says". The Canadian Press. 8 February 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
66. Mensah-Bonsu, Deborah (16 August 2008). "Native leader says P.E.I. park needs name changed". CTV.ca. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
67. "Parks Canada may consider renaming historic site Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst". CBC.ca. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
68. Removal of General Amherst's name from Parks Canada; Change.Org; 20 February 2016
69. McKenna, Catherine (16 February 2018). "Statement from Minister McKenna on the name change of an important national historic site" (Press release). Ottawa: Parks Canada. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
70. "Le Devoir, Lundi 24 août 2009". Archived from the original on 27 August 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
71. "Montreal adds Iroquois symbol to flag, strips British general of street name – Montreal – CBC News". Cbc.ca. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
72. Niosi, Laurence (21 June 2019). "La rue Amherst devient la rue Atateken". Radio-Canada. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
73. Dubé, Élizabeth (24 March 2023). "Premières Nations: la rue Amherst deviendra la rue Wìgwàs". TVA Gatineau (in Canadian French). Retrieved 27 September 2023.
74. Bidgood, Jess (26 January 2016). "Amherst College Drops 'Lord Jeff' as Mascot". New York Times.
75. "The Lord Jeffrey Inn Introduces New Name and Logo". Amherst College. 27 August 2018.

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• Tucker, Spencer (2011). The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political Social and Military History. ABC-CLIO Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85109-697-8.
• Whitworth, Rex (February 1959). "Field-Marshal Lord Amherst: A Military Enigma" (subscription required). History Today 9#2 pp. 132–137.

External links

• Jeffery Amherst Collection at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections
• Jeffery Amherst papers, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
• Prof. Kevin Sweeney on Jeffery Amherst in America Archived 19 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine
• Stacey, C.P. (1979). "Amherst, Jeffrey". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
• Historical Biographies: Jeffrey Amherst
• Amherst and Smallpox
• Amherst in the Haldimand Papers
• Amherst and Smallpox Blankets – Excerpts from actual letters in which Lord Jeffery Amherst approves smallpox plan (dated 16 July 1763) and discusses other methods of killing Native Americans with Colonel Henry Bouquet.
• Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets – Extensive discussion and documentation of Amherst's involvement in warfare against Native Americans and the smallpox blanket tactics (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• 1759 From the Warpath to the Plains of Abraham ( Virtual Exhibition)
• National Battlefields Commission (Plains of Abraham)
• "Archival material relating to Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst". UK National Archives.
• Hutchinson, John (1892). "Jeffrey Amherst" . Men of Kent and Kentishmen (Subscription ed.). Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. pp. 4–5.

Military offices
Preceded by John Jordan	Colonel of the 15th Regiment of Foot 1756–1779	Succeeded by Charles Hotham
Preceded by James Abercrombie	Commander-in-Chief, North America 1758–1763	Succeeded by Thomas Gage
	Colonel-in-Chief of the 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot 1758–1768
Preceded by Ralph Burton	Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot 1768–1779	Succeeded by William Style
Preceded by Thomas Gage	Colonel-in-Chief of the 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot 1768–1797	Succeeded by Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Preceded by Richard Lyttelton	Governor of Guernsey 1770–1797	Succeeded by Charles Grey
Preceded by Henry Seymour Conway	Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance 1772–1782	Succeeded by William Howe
Vacant Title last held by Marquess of Granby	Commander-in-Chief of the Forces 1778–1782	Succeeded by Henry Seymour Conway
Preceded by William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington	Captain and Colonel of the 2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards 1779–1782	Succeeded by Prince Frederick
Preceded by Lord Robert Bertie	Captain and Colonel of The Queen's Troop of Horse Guards 1782–1788	Became the 2nd Life Guards
New title	Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards 1788–1797	Succeeded by The Lord Cathcart
Preceded by Henry Seymour Conway	Commander-in-Chief of the Forces 1793–1795	Succeeded by Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Government offices
Preceded by The Earl of Loudoun	Crown Governor of Virginia 1759–1768	Succeeded by John Blair
Preceded by New Office or Commander-in-Chief, North America or Governor of New France, Pierre de Rigaud	Governor of the Province of Quebec 1760–1763	Succeeded by James Murray
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation	Baron Amherst (of Holmesdale in the County of Kent) 1776–1797	Extinct
	Baron Amherst (of Montreal in the County of Kent) 1788–1797	Succeeded by William Pitt Amherst