LORD AMHERST: AND THE BRITISH ADVANCE EASTWARDS TO BURMA - HARDCOVER

About the Book:- The Amherst country lies in that delightful region where the North Downs slope from Sevenoaks to Tunbridge and the Weald of Kent. The Place which bears the name is in the parish of pembury within a few miles of Tunbridge and from the Pipe Rolls of 1215 down to the Tudor period we find mention of those who took their description from the spot. At Riverhead the Amherst property was close to Knole and in 1731 the Duke of Dorset Procured for Jeffery Amherst the son of his friend the bencher an ensigncy in the Guards. While Wolfe has obtained unfading renown by the glorious capture of Quebec, Amherst did no less solid service by reducing Ticonderoga.Finally in 1760 the united forces took Montreal and General Jeffery Amherst was appointed Governor-General of British North America. About the Author:-Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie (9 June 1837 – 26 February 1919), eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, was an English writer, whose several novels were appreciated in their time and made her a central figure on the late Victorian literary scene. She is noted especially as the custodian of her father's literary legacy, and for short fiction that places fairy tale narratives in a Victorian milieu. Her 1885 novel Mrs. Dymond introduced into English the proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. Anne Isabella Thackeray was born in London. Anne, whose father called her Anny, spent her childhood in France and England, where she and her sister were accompanied by the future poet Anne Evans. In 1877, she married her cousin, Richmond Ritchie, who was 17 years her junior. Richardson Evans (5 April 1846 – 10 May 1928) was a British civil servant, journalist and author. Evans served in the Indian Civil Service, for the North-Western Provinces from 1867 to 1876, after which he worked in London as a journalist