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Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron (ăm`ərst), 1717–97, British army officer. He served in the War of the Austrian Succession 2)) was signed. Prussia gained Silesia and thus emerged as a major European power; the Hapsburgs thenceforth looked to the east for resources to develop their state.

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See biography by E. Crankshaw, Maria Theresa (1970); C. A.
..... Click the link for more information. and in the early part of the Seven Years War Seven Years War, 1756–63, worldwide war fought in Europe, North America, and India between France, Austria, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and (after 1762) Spain on the one side and Prussia, Great Britain, and Hanover on the other.
..... Click the link for more information. . 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 French and Indian Wars, 1689–1763, the name given by American historians to the North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France in the late 17th and the 18th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. . The capture (1758) of the French fortress gave Britain her first important victory in the war, and Amherst replaced James Abercromby Abercromby, James, 1706–81, British general in the French and Indian Wars , b. Scotland. He arrived in America in 1756 and in 1758 replaced the earl of Loudoun as supreme British commander.
..... Click the link for more information. as supreme commander in America. The next year (1759), pushing northward from Albany, he took Crown Point and Ticonderoga, but he arrived too late to help General Wolfe Wolfe, James, 1727–59, British soldier. After a distinguished record in European campaigns, he was made (1758) second in command to Jeffery Amherst in the last of the French and Indian Wars .
..... Click the link for more information. take Quebec. He directed (1760) the capture of Montreal and returned (1763) to England. In the American Revolution, Amherst refused to command British troops in New England, but in 1778 he became commander in chief of home defenses. Amherst, for whom Amherst Amherst, town (1990 pop. 35,228), Hampshire co., central Mass., in a fertile farm area; inc. 1759. Named for Lord Jeffery Amherst , it is a college town. Emily Dickinson was born and lived there all her life.
..... Click the link for more information. and Amherst College Amherst College, at Amherst, Mass.; founded 1821 as a college for men, coeducational since 1975. A liberal arts institution, Amherst maintains a cooperative program with Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Hampshire College, and the Univ. of Massachusetts.
..... Click the link for more information. is named, was created baron in 1776 and was made a field marshal in 1796.

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See his journal (ed. by J. C. Webster, 1931); biography by J. C. Long (1933).