ur Struggle for
the Fourteenth Colony_; Stone, _Invasion of Canada_; Codman, _Arnold's
Expedition to Quebec_; Lucas, _History of Canada_; Coffin, _The Province
of Quebec and the Early American Revolution_; Bradley, _The Making of
Canada_.
=American Revolution.= =WM= Traced to battle of the Plains, 205. =T=
Loyalists in, 2-3.
=Americans.= =Dr= Settled in Canada, disloyalty of, 82, 85; disorderly
retreat of, 146.
=Amherst, Jeffrey, Baron= (1717-1797). Sent to America, 1758, and in
co-operation with Admiral Boscawen, captured Louisbourg that year. With
General Prideaux and Sir W. Johnson, took Ticonderoga, 1759. Reduced
Montreal the following year. Appointed commander-in-chief and
governor-general in America, 1761. Raised to peerage, 1776, as Baron
Amherst of Holmesdale. =Index=: =WM= In command of Louisbourg
expedition, 73; commander-in-chief of forces in America, 77; operates
against Montreal, 77; his slowness of movement, 97, 122; held in check
by Bourlamaque, 131; compels Bourlamaque to evacuate Forts Carillon and
Frederic, 146. =Hd= Replaces Abercromby, 21; wrecks Fort George, 22; his
delay at Lake Champlain, 25; praises Haldimand's forbearance at Niagara,
27; builds a strong fort at Crown Point, 28; arrives at Oswego, 34;
Montreal surrenders to, 38; takes up quarters at New York, 40; nominal
governor of Canada, 41; notifies Haldimand of promotion, 42; approves
scheme for smelting old guns, 47; retirement of, 53; letter from
Haldimand, 82; recommends Haldimand for New York command, 83; his
interest in Louis Haldimand, 88; blind to true situation in America,
103; anxious to see Haldimand on his return to England, 105-106; meets
Haldimand at Sydneys, 311; entertainments given by, 324-325; Haldimand
on, 326, 332; Haldimand visits, 337, 339. =Dr= Canada surrendered to, 2;
grants religious freedom, 10. _See also_ Louisbourg; Ticonderoga; Crown
Point. =Bib.=: _Expedition of British and Provincial Army ... against
Ticonderoga and Crown Point_; Samuel Waldo, _Reduction of Louisbourg_
(Dominion Archives, 1886); Johnstone, _Journal of Louisbourg, 1750-1758_
(Coll. de doc. rel. a la Nouvelle France, vol. 3); _Dict. of Eng.
Hist._; _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Bradley, _The Fight with France_; Parkman,
_Montcalm and Wolfe_.
=Amherstburg.= A town on the Canadian side of the Detroit River.
=Index=: =Bk= Fort, village, and naval station, 59; deputy
quartermaster-general stationed at, 80; military importance of, 177,
236; garrison o
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