Title

Sir Jeffery Amherst, 18th century British soldier, c1880.Artist: Whymper

Caption

Sir Jeffery Amherst, 18th century British soldier, c1880. Amherst commanded British forces in the war against the French in North America in 1758-1760, capturing Montreal in 1760. He was made Governor of Virginia in 1763. He has been implicated in an early case of germ warfare, a plan to supply rebelling Native Americans with smallpox-infected blankets during the Pontiac uprising of 1763, but historians are divided as to whether the plan was actually carried out. Amherst was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British army in 1778, a post he held until 1795. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1880

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C49_095

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,8Mb (3,7Mb) / 12,5in x 15,5in / 3742 x 4654 (300dpi)

Keywords

England people male man men hat country guy clothes British English dress war location century Britain rebellion general soldiers soldier wig concept B&W MONOCHROME commander military uniform black & white black and white B W Military personnel 18th century Eighteenth Century The Print Collector colonialism Field Marshal Seven Years War (1756 - 1763) Jeffrey Amherst 1st Baron Amherst engraving portrait Pontiac Rebellion Whymper Edmund Jeffrey Amherst Baron Amherst General Amherst Field-Marshal Amherst Edmund Ollier Ollier Edmund Ollier engraving portrait