General Amherst

(noun)

An 18th century officer in the British Army and commander-in-chief of the forces.

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Examples of General Amherst in the following topics:

  • Pontiac's Uprising

    • General Amherst, the British commander-in-chief in North America, was in charge of administering policy toward American Indians, which involved both military matters and regulation of the fur trade.
    • Amherst also restricted the American Indians' gun supply, which generated resentment; American Indian men used gunpowder and ammunition to gain food for their families and fur for trade, and by closing off the supply, Amherst imposed hardships on tribal families.

  • Britain's War

    • In addition to strategic planning, Germain was responsible for promoting and relieving generals, and distribution of provisions and supplies.
    • General Thomas Gage, in command of British forces in North America during the early rebellion, suffered criticism for his leniency.
    • Several senior British officers turned down appointments or publicly resigned commissions because they chose not to take sides in the conflict, including General Jeffrey Amherst and Admiral Augustus Keppel.
    • In general, Whig politicians were vehemently opposed to the Tory plan for militarily suppressing the colonial rebellion, causing great divisions within Parliament.

  • The Seven Years' War: 1754-1763

    • In September of 1760, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal and the King's Governor of New France, negotiated a surrender with British General Jeffrey Amherst to bring an end to the French and Indian war portion of the Seven Years' War.

  • Spectator Sports

    • The first intercollegiate baseball game took place in 1859 between Amherst College and Williams College.
    • This competition featured a two-mile race between athletes from Amherst College, Cornell University, and McGill University of Montreal, Canada.
    • John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918), also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was recognized as the first Heavyweight Champion of gloved boxing from February 7, 1881 to 1892, and is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring rules.

  • The Lost Generation

    • In a more general sense the term identified the generation that came of age during and shortly after World War I, leading to the name, "the World War I Generation."
    • The term "Lost Generation" first appeared in Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, which centers on a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s and epitomizes the lifestyle and mindset of the post-war expatriate generation.
    • You are a lost generation."
    • The “Lost Generation” was greatly influenced by the First World War.
    • Eliot was an important figure among the "Lost Generation" movement of writers.

  • The Beats

    • The term Beatnik was coined to represent the Beat Generation, and referred to the name of the recent Russian satellite, Sputnik, and the Beat Generation.
    • The Beat Generation phenomenon itself had a pervasive influence on Western culture.
    • In 1982, Ginsberg published a summary of the essential effects of the Beat Generation:
    • The Beat generation was characterized as beatnik in mainstream society.
    • This picture represents a beatnik; a caricature of someone in the Beat generation.

  • The Battle of Fredericksburg

    • Lincoln urged Major General Ulysses S.
    • He replaced Major General Don Carlos Buell with Major General William S.
    • On November 5, seeing that his replacement of Buell had not stimulated Major General George B.
    • On December 13, the "grand division" of Major General William B.
    • Burnside ordered the grand divisions of Major Generals Edwin V.

  • McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

    • Union General George B.
    • The operation, commanded by Major General George B.
    • McClellan was initially successful against Confederate General Joseph E.
    • Johnston, but the emergence of aggressive General Robert E.
    • Confederate Brigadier General John B.

  • The Battle of Chancellorsville

    • The Confederate Army won at the Battle of Chancellorsville, but lost many troops, including General "Stonewall" Jackson.
    • The campaign pitted Union Army Major General Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E.
    • The victory was tempered by heavy casualties and the mortal wounding of Lieutenant General Thomas J.
    • Union cavalry under Major General George Stoneman began a long distance raid against Lee's supply lines at about the same time.
    • The stand was brief, as the Confederates smashed through and continued to roll up the Eleventh Corps (under the command of General Oliver O.

  • Grant's Pursuit of Lee

    • General Grant's Union Army pursued General Lee's Confederate Army in the Overland Campaign, resulting in an important victory for the Union.
    • Lieutenant General Ulysses S.
    • Grant, general-in-chief of all Union armies, directed the actions of the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G.
    • Meade, and other forces against Confederate General Robert E.
    • Major General William Tecumseh Sherman succeeded Grant in command of most of the western armies.