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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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