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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amherst , Sir Jeffrey , 1717 - (search)
Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, 1717-
Military officer; born in Kent, England, Jan. 29, 1717; became an ensign in the army in 1731, and was aide to Lord Ligonier and the Duke of Cumberland.
In 1756 he was promoted to major-general and given the command of the expedition against Louisburg in
Sir Jeffrey Amherst. 1758, which resulted in its capture, with other French strongholds in that vicinity.
In September, that year, he was appointed commander-in-chief in America, and led the troops in person, in 1759, that drove the French from Lake Champlain.
The next year he captured Montreal and completed the conquest of Canada.
For these acts he was rewarded with the thanks of Parliament and the Order of the Bath.
In 1763 he was appointed governor of Virginia.
The atrocities of the Indians in May and June of that year aroused the anger and the energies of Sir Jeffrey, and he contemplated hurling swift destruction upon the barbarians.
He denounced Pontiac as the chief ringleader of mischief ;
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woodhull , Nathaniel 1722 -1776 (search)
Woodhull, Nathaniel 1722-1776
Military officer; born in Mastic, Suffolk co., Long Island, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1722; served in the French and Indian War, and was colonel of a New York regiment under Amherst.
In 1769 he was in the New York Assembly, and was one of the few in that body who resisted the obnoxious measures of the British Parliament.
In 1776 he was president of the New York Provincial Congress.
On the landing of the British on Long Island, he put himself at the head of the militia, with whom he fought in the battle of Long Island.
A few days afterwards he was surprised by a party of British light-horsemen, near Jamaica, and, after surrendering his
The House in which Woodhull died. sword, he was cruelly cut with the weapons of his captors, of which wounds he died at an ancient stone-house at New Utrecht, Long Island, Sept. 10, 1776.
A narrative of his capture and death was published by Henry Onderdonk, Jr., in 1848.
His own Journal of the Montreal expedition in 17