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22 de dic. de 2021 · Jeffery Amherst was born January 29, 1717, the second of four sons and third of five children of Jeffery Amherst and Elizabeth Kerril Amherst, of Riverhead, Sevenoaks Parish, Kent County, England. In 1735 he entered the army as an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. He rose rapidly through the service as an aide-de-camp to General John Ligonier during the War of the Austrian Succession ...
26 de ene. de 2016 · Lord Jeff. Lord Jeffrey 1 Amherst was commanding general of British forces in North America during the final battles of the so-called French & Indian war (1754-1763). He won victories against the French to acquire Canada for England and helped make England the world's chief colonizer at the conclusion of the Seven Years War among the colonial ...
29 de ene. de 2008 · Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, British army officer (born 29 January 1717 near Sevenoaks, England; died 3 August 1797 near Sevenoaks). Jeffery Amherst was the commander-in-chief of British forces in North America during the Seven Years' War, which saw France surrender Canada to the British. Several streets and towns in North America ...
Jeffery Amherst was born on January 29, 1717, on his family's country estate at Sevenoaks in Kent County, England. (Some sources spell his first name "Jeffrey.") He was the second son born to Jeffery and Elizabeth (Kerril) Amherst. He joined the British Army in 1731, at the age of fourteen, and first served as a page (a personal assistant or servant) for a family friend, Lionel Sackville, the ...
Jeffrey Amherst, 1. Baron Amherst (* 29. Januar 1717 in Sevenoaks, England; † 3. August 1797 ebenda) war ein britischer Feldmarschall, Militärgouverneur von Kanada, Gouverneur der Colony of Virginia und Oberbefehlshaber der britischen Armee .
Jeffery Amherst was the son of another Jeffery Amherst, a prosperous barrister whose family had lived in Kent for centuries, and Elizabeth Kerrill. At the age of 12 young Jeffery became a page in the household of Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, at Knole, his great house adjacent to Sevenoaks.
29 de ene. de 2008 · Jeffery Amherst, 1 er baron Amherst, officier de l’armée britannique (né le 29 janvier 1717 près de Sevenoaks, en Angleterre; mort le 3 août 1797 près de Sevenoaks). Jeffery Amherst était le commandant en chef des forces britanniques en Amérique du Nord pendant la guerre de Sept Ans, durant laquelle le Canada est passé de la France à ...
