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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The French and Indian War was a conflict in North America between Great Britain and France, along with their respective Indigenous allies, which were called "Indians" at the time. Historians generally
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
…was being reformed. Amherst had 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. In the wake of this action, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the…
The coureurs des bois were French-Canadian fur traders, who did business with natives throughout the Mississippi and St. Lawrence watershed.
Iroquois expansion, 1711. By the mid-18th century, the Iroquois Confederacy had expanded from Upstate New York to the Ohio Country.
Three Cherokee chiefs, c. 1762. The Cherokee were subject to diplomatic efforts from the British and French to gain their support or neutrality in the event of a conflict.
General James Wolfe, British commander