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BARON See also: British soldier, was the son of See also: Jeffrey Amherst of Riverhead, Kent, and by the See also: interest of the duke of Dorset obtained an ensigncy in the See also: Guards in 1731
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He served in See also: Germany and the Low Countries as aide-de-tamp to General (See also: Lord) Ligonier, and was See also: present at See also: Dettingen, See also: Fontenoy and Roucoux
.
He then served on See also: Cumberland's staff, and took See also: part with the duke in the
AMHERST
later See also: campaigns of the See also: Austrian Succession war, in the See also: battle of Val, and the See also: North See also: German See also: campaign of r757, including the battle of Hastenbeck
.
A See also: year previously he had been promoted to a See also: lieutenant-colonelcy
.
In 1758 See also: William Pitt caused Amherst to be made a major-general, and: gave him command of an expedition to attack the French in North
See also: America
.
For the See also: great See also: plan of conquering See also: Canada, Pitt See also: chose See also: young and ardent See also: officers, with Amherst, distinguished for steadiness and self-control, as their See also: commander-in-chief
.
The first victory of the expedition, the capture of See also: Louisburg (See also: July 26, 1758), was, soon followed by other successes, and Amherst was given the chief command of all the forces in the theatre of war
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In the campaign of 1759 Amherst's own share was the capture of See also: Ticonderoga and See also: Crown Point, while Fort See also: Niagara See also: fell to another See also: column, and See also: Quebec was taken by Wolfe
.
In 176o a concentric See also: march on
See also: Montreal was carried out with See also: complete success
.
Amherst was immediately appointed governor-general of British North America, and in the following year was made a K.B
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His conduct, of the operations against the See also: Indians under See also: Pontiac was, however, far from being as successful as his generalship against See also: regular troops; and he returned to See also: England in 1763, being made governor of Virginia and colonel of the See also: Oath regiment in the same year
.
In 1768 the See also: king, who had had a
See also: quarrel with Amherst, made amends by giving him another colonelcy; in 1770 he was made governor of See also: Guernsey; and two years later, though not yet a full general, he was made lieutenant-general of the ordnance and acting commander-in-chief of the forces
.
In this capacity he was the chief adviser at headquarters during the See also: American War of Independence
.
He was created a peer in 1776, was promoted general in r778 and became colonel of the 2nd See also: Horse Grenadiers (2nd See also: Life Guards) two years later
.
He aided in suppressing the See also: Gordon riots of 1780
.
The rest of his active life,, with a See also: short See also: interval in 1782-1783, he spent at the Horse Guards as commander-in-chief, but he was no longer capable of See also: good service, and in 1795 he was succeeded by the duke of See also: York
.
In 1796 Lord Amherst was made See also: field-marshal; and he died on the 3rd of
See also: August 1797 at " Montreal," his residence in Kent
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