Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. He is credited as one of the architects of Great Britain's successful campaign to conq
Portrait of Jeffery Amherst by Joshua Reynolds, 1765
Grateful Reflexions on the Signal Appearances of Divine Providence for Great Britain and its Colonies in America. 1760
Portrait of Jeffery Amherst by Thomas Gainsborough, 1780. Amherst was Commander-in Chief during the response to threatened invasion by the Armada of 1779 during the American War of Independence.
On 26 March 1767 Jeffrey Amherst married Elizabeth, daughter of General George Cary (portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1767).
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Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amhe
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
…Ontario (location of General Amherst High School), Amherst, Massachusetts (location of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hampshire College and Amherst College), Amherst, New Hampshire, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Amherst, New York, Amherst, Maine, and Amherst County, Virginia. In 1913, the Amherst College Alumni…
The Amherst graduating class of 1850, including William Austin Dickinson (second row, far left), brother of poet Emily Dickinson
College Row, consisting of Williston, South, North, and Appleton halls, with Johnson Chapel at center
Fayerweather Hall
Frost Library