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	Amherst College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amherst Academy and Amherst College were both named for the town of Amherst, which in turn was named for Lord Jeffery Amherst, commanding general of British forces in North America during the French and Indian War.
		Lord Jeffery Amherst is now notorious for his comments, in a letter to a peer, about spreading smallpox-infected blankets among Native Americans.
		Amherst is a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows its students to attend classes at four other Pioneer Valley institutions, inculding Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amherst_College (1849 words)

	AllRefer.com - Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1758 he was sent to America as a major general to lead the Louisburg campaign in the last of the French and Indian Wars.
		The capture (1758) of the French fortress gave Britain her first important victory in the war, and Amherst replaced James Abercromby as supreme commander in America.
		Amherst, for whom Amherst and Amherst College is named, was created baron in 1776 and was made a field marshal in 1796.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AmhrstJ.html (290 words)

	Amherst, Massachusetts -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Jeffery Amherst was also famous for considering, in a letter to a peer, the use of (A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars) smallpox-covered blankets in warfare against the Native Americans.
		Amherst was the birthplace and lifelong residence of (United States poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems (1830-1886)) Emily Dickinson.
		Amherst is relatively unique among towns of its size in not having moved to a mayor-council or (additional info and facts about council-manager) council-manager form of government.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amherst,_massachusetts.htm (1235 words)

	Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Although Amherst's name is usually connected with this incident because he was the overall commander and because of his correspondence with Bouquet, from the evidence it appears that the attempt was made without Amherst's prior knowledge.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeffrey_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst (367 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Obtaining George II’s sanction for the grant to Amherst of the local rank of “Major General in America” was a delicate operation, in which William Pitt, secretary of state for the Northern Department, and the Duke of Newcastle, the prime minister, seem to have sought the aid of the king’s mistress, Lady Yarmouth.
		Amherst “said I was come to take Canada and I did not intend to take anything less.” As at Louisbourg, he refused the French the honours of war, on the ground of the atrocities committed by their Indian allies.
		Amherst wrote Johnson that he did not believe in “purchasing the good behavior, either of Indians, or any others”; “When Men of What race soever, behave ill they must be punished but not bribed.” As commander-in-chief Amherst was responsible for Indian policy, and his attitude doubtless contributed to producing the outbreak of 1763.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35854 (4810 words)

	Jeffrey Amherst
		Jeffrey Amherst was a prime contributor to the British victory over the French in Canada in the French and Indian War, but later his reputation suffered a blow.
		Amherst was born at Riverhead, Kent, England and was first commissioned as an ensign in the foot guards in 1731.
		Amherst was unable to suppress Pontiac’s Rebellion to his superiors' satisfaction, and he was recalled to London.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1185.html (491 words)

	Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Jeffrey Amherst (1717-97).
		Amherst had no idea that he was being considered for a such a high posting.
		To some of those in power, Amherst was unknown, but a mere snip of a military man; and, it seems plain, that at this point the decision had yet to be made that Amherst should lead one of England's armies.
		Amherst, as might be imagined, throughout all of this, kept his composure -- that of a disciplined military officer.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Amherst.htm (1022 words)

	Amherst, Jeffery, 1st Baron Amherst
		Amherst, Jeffery, 1st Baron Amherst, British army officer (b near Sevenoaks, Eng 29 Jan 1717; d near Sevenoaks 3 Aug 1797).
		Less recognized than James WOLFE, Amherst was the ultimate conqueror of Canada in the SEVEN YEARS' WAR.
		Amherst left North America in November 1763 for England, where his handling of the earlier PONTIAC uprising provoked criticism.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0000181 (218 words)

	Amherst/Williams Rivalry
		Amherst and Williams are both members of IHSA Zone 1, Region 3, the smallest region in land miles nationwide.
		The "Jeffs" (named for Lord Jeffery Amherst) are already 74 points ahead of the "Ephs" (pronounced 'Eefs,' short for Ephraim Williams) not to mention Amherst is hosting the final show with horses they are familiar with.
		We spoke with Amherst open rider Emily Eisen, a senior and voice major whose thesis was a vocal performance recital, to get her take on one of America's oldest sports rivalries:
	www.campusequestrian.com /story/rivalry.html (786 words)

	Lord Jeffery Inn Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Lord Jeffery Inn Policy has been prepared in accordance with local, state and federal regulatory requirements, including those, which are mandated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 29 CFR 1910 and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
		This overall policy for the Lord Jeffery Inn shall incorporate all other applicable plans, policies and standard operating procedures that may be developed, implemented and maintained by personnel at the Lord Jeffery Inn, under the direction of the Senior Management Staff.
		Amherst College, being the lessor of the property shall from time to time inspect the location known as the Lord Jeffery Inn for local, state and federal regulatory requirements.
	www.amherst.edu /~ehs/environmental/epa_lordjeff2.htm (1552 words)

	Jeffery Amherst Biography / Biography of Jeffery Amherst Biography
		Jeffery Amherst, Baron Amherst (1717-1797), was commanding general of the British forces in North America and then governor general of British North America.
		Amherst was recalled to England in January 1758 and was given the rank of major general and command of an army of 14,000 men.
		In 1776 Amherst served as military adviser to the Cabinet and was made Baron Amherst.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jeffery-amherst (608 words)

	Amherst, Jeffery, 1st Baron Amherst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Amherst was the ultimate conqueror of Canada in the SEVEN YEARS' WAR.
		He obtained the surrender of LOUISBOURG on July 27, 1758, by a careful, slow siege by his overwhelming forces.
		But in 1760 Amherst planned a campaign that saw three armies grind down French resistance in converging on Montreal.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0000181 (140 words)

	LWV Amherst, MA Your Amherst Government
		Amherst, like all the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts, is a "creature of the state." Under the Township Acts of 1636, 1641, and 1647, the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony granted municipalities the authority to manage their own affairs, to make and enforce by-laws, and to choose their own officials.
		Amherst is one of twenty municipalities in Hampshire County.
		Amherst's 240 elected town meeting members are chosen by precinct for terms of three years, with one-third of the membership chosen each year.
	www.lwvamherst.org /yag1.html (12234 words)

	Amherst Guide - History
		Settled as part of Hadley in the 1730s, Amherst was recognized in 1759 as a separate district and was incorporated as a town in 1775 and has developed principally as an educational center.
		Then the town was named “Amherst” in honor of Lord Jeffery Amherst, hero of the French and Indian War and close friend of the Governor of Massachusetts.
		Noah Webster, the great dictionary man lived in Amherst for some time and had a hand in founding Amherst College and Helen Hunt Jackson, author of “Ramona” a stirring tale of the plight of the Native Americans was born and raised here.
	www.amherstguide.com /history.shtml (1068 words)

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		Amherst to Col. Henry Bouquet, (New York, June 6, 1763), Amherst, Sir Jeffery in: B. Add.
		Amherst to Col. Henry Bouquet, (New York, Aug. 7, 1763), Amherst, Sir Jeffery in: B. Add.
		Bouquet to Sir Jeffery Amherst, (Fort Pitt, Sept. 7, 1763), Bouquet, Henry in: Series 21634, p.
	www.gbl.indiana.edu /archives/miamis14/miamitoc16.html (1051 words)

	Elizabeth A. Fenn \| Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst \| The Journal of ...
		Seen in this light, the Amherst affair becomes not so much an aberration as part of a larger continuum in which accusations and discussions of biological warfare were common, and actual incidents may have occurred more frequently than scholars have previously acknowledged.
		But it was not Amherst, apparently, who first proposed the use of smallpox against the Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo Indians surrounding Fort Pitt.
		Amherst learned of the outbreak in Bouquet's letter of June 23, and the commander in chief proposed his own scheme on July 7.
	www.brad.ac.uk /acad/sbtwc/other/ethics/readings/fenn.html (2586 words)

	british (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This was mainly due to the bad appointment of Sir Jeffery Amherst to oversee Indian Affairs.
		Amherst regarded this as "buying good behavior" and contended that it was too expensive; however, the natives saw gift giving as a combination of tribute and rent for using their lands.
		Amherst also halted the giving to trading of guns, lead, and powder to the natives hoping that it would reduce their ability to make war.
	www.niu.edu /historicalbuildings/illini/british.htm (359 words)

	History of Nova Scotia, Bk1, Part7, Footnotes to Ch10.
		William Amherst was, of course the army's man; for the navy, Boscawen sent aboard the Shannon Captain, The Honourable, George Edgcumbe (d.1795).
		Amherst was agreeable enough, as he was to most any suggestion made by Wolfe; but, the problem was, getting Boscawen on side.
		Amherst wrote in his journal under the date of August the 13th: "The commanding officer of the artillery told me he could not in less than eight days get things belonging to the train clear off the ground.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part7/Ch10fn.htm (3109 words)

	Amherst County Chamber of Commerce
		Amherst County, Virginia was formed in 1761 from Albemarle County and was named for Sir Jeffery Amherst, a hero of the battle of Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.
		The Town of Amherst nestles along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and maintains a subtle colloquial sense of living in the South.
		The population of Central Virginia, which includes the counties of Amherst, Campbell, Bedford, and Appomattox as well as the cities of Lynchburg and Bedford is 220,600.
	www.amherstvachamber.com /info.html (739 words)

	Amherst College News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Deborah Gewertz, the G. Henry Whitcomb 1874 Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College, and her colleague Frederick Errington from Trinity College (Hartford), have received a grant of $99,961 from the National Science Foundation to support their research on the burgeoning trade in fatty meats—and the growth in obesity—in the developing world.
		Mark Marshall and Helen Leung, professors of chemistry at Amherst College, have received a grant of $330,787 from the National Science Foundation to support their research into the changes that occur in atoms or molecules at the very beginning of chemical reactions.
		If you are a student, staff or faculty member of Amherst College, and would like to suggest an event or accomplishment for a possible news release, call or e-mail the Director of Media Relations at 413/542-8417.
	www.amherst.edu /~pubaff/news (2478 words)

	Canadian Portaits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		During the Seven Years' War, Jeffery Amherst (1717-1797) was commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America.
		Amherst returned to England in 1763, and later died at "Montreal" his country seat in Kent.
		In this portrait commemorating his victory, Amherst is dressed in ceremonial armour and wears the Order of Bath which he received in 1761.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /portraits/docs/exp/ec040905.htm (127 words)

	Richard Leader: UB, UMass, Amherst College
		From what I have been told, Lord Jeffery Amherst, our namesake, was a swell guy--if you can overlook that little incident where he intentionally gave smallpox infected blankets to Native Americans during the French and Indian war.
		Amherst is a small private Liberal Arts school with a population of approximately 1,668 students.
		Amherst is also one of the few colleges to offer undergraduate degrees in neuroscience; so, budding Dr. Frankensteins, take note.
	www.richleader.com /cc8.htm (627 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga History: 1759 Campaign Bibliography
		Amherst "terminated the American war with so much ability; being afterwards raised to the command of the army at home, was discovered and universally allowed to be a man of impenetrable stupidity; and incapable or neglectful of the most common details of his office."
		John Clarence Webster, ed., Journal of Jeffery Amherst Recording the Military Career of General Amherst in America from 1758 to 1763, Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1931.
		Reprinted from "Proceedings of the Army under the command of General Amherst, for the Year 1759, with a perspective view of Lake George, and a Plan of Ticonderoga: Taken on the Spot," The Universal Magazine, London, November 1759, pp.
	www.fort-ticonderoga.org /history/bibliographies/1759Campaign.htm (3221 words)

	Amherst and Smallpox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Amherst was commanding general of British forces in North America during the final battles of the so-called French and Indian war (1754-1763).
		Amherst College china plates depicting mounted Englishman with sword chasing Indians on foot were in use until the 1970's.
		Indians were angered by Amherst's refusal to continue the French practice of providing supplies in exchange for Indian friendship and assistance, and by a generally imperious British attitude toward Indians and Indian land.
	www.nativeweb.com /pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html (3740 words)

	Amherst, Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Amherst was named after Lord Jeffery Amherst, a British general in the French and Indian War.
		Amherst was settled in 1727 and incorporated in 1759.
		The University Of Massachusetts at Amherst was founded as the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1863.
	www.knowledgecontrol.com /1037/6077 (256 words)

	MAJOR SCOTT'S PROVISIONAL LIGHT INFANTRY BATTALION - The Early America Review, Winter 1996-97
		In preparation for the intended expedition against the fortified town of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island in 1758, Major General Jeffery Amherst ordered to be organized and trained "a Body of light troops.
		In the mean time, he had three balls lodged in his clothes, and would have had all the seventy Frenchmen upon him at once, were it not for a copse that was between them, and through which he fired a few shot.
		Jeffery Amherst, The Journal of Jeffery Amherst, ed.
	earlyamerica.com /review/winter96/scott.html (2859 words)

	NJDARM: Archives Collection Guides: Department of Defense, Adjutant General's Office, Manuscripts and Correspondence ...
		Jeffery Amherst to Charles Townshend; troop movements, 26 October 1762 [copy].
		Jeffery Amherst to Charles Townshend; troop movements and conditions, 23 September 1762 [copy].
		Jeffery Amherst to Charles Townshend; commissions and troop movements, 15 August 1762 [copy].
	www.state.nj.us /state/darm/links/guides/sdea0001.html (2653 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga History: Rebuilding the Fort - 1760 Convention Bibliography
		Amherst to Major Campbell, New York, 6 April 1760.
		Amherst’s response is: Amherst to Brehm, Albany, 31 May 1760, Amherst Papers, p.
		Hugh Rose to Gen. Jeffery Amherst, 20 December 1760.
	www.fort-ticonderoga.org /history/bibliographies/rebuild_1760_convention.htm (618 words)

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