* The Amherst expedition to Japan for the solar eclipse of August 9, 1896

In 1759, shortly after capturing Ticonderoga without a fight, General Amherst learned of the death of General John Prideaux whose expedition had captured Fort Niagara.

Although Amherst was incensed at Gage's failure, and there was no immediate censure from either Amherst or the war ministry, Gage's troops were in the rear of Amherst's army in the 1760 expedition that resulted in Montreal's surrender.

When Amherst learned through Sir William Johnson that the Iroquois League was prepared to support British efforts to drive the French out of their frontier forts, he decided to send an expedition to capture Fort Niagara.

* Haldimand Collection – Index of documents between Amherst and Frederick Haldimand, second in command of Prideaux's expedition

To Colonel Henry Bouquet at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was preparing to lead an expedition to relieve Fort Pitt, Amherst wrote on about June 29, 1763: " Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians?

In the spring of 1762, General Jeffrey Amherst, the commander of British and Colonial forces in North America, ordered that 207 men from Rhode Island be sent as part of an expedition against Cuba.

The expedition included a Harvard and an Amherst professor, and they named many of the glaciers after elite colleges.

British General Jeffrey Amherst made plans for the 1759 military campaigns of the French and Indian War that included an expedition to capture Fort Niagara, a major French military and supply point between the French province of Canada and their forts in the Ohio Country.

Amherst chose Brigadier General John Prideaux to lead the expedition, which also included Sir William Johnson, the British Indian agent who led the expedition's Iroquois forces.

Operation Amherst was a Free French SAS, led by brigadier Mike Calvert of Chindit fame, attack designed to capture intact Dutch canals, bridges and airfields during World War II.

* East Amherst, Nova Scotia

Following the British setback at Saratoga, Amherst successfully argued for a limited war in North America, keeping footholds along the coast, defending Canada, East and West Florida, and the West Indies while putting more effort into the war at sea.

North Amherst is also home to a large majority of Amherst middle income families as the main street ( East Pleasant Street ) has many housing developments built off of it.

* East Amherst ( formerly, " Transit Station ") is an unincorporated community, or hamlet, on the west side of the town that is mostly in the Town of Amherst.

East Amherst is also a postal zone ( ZIP code 14051 ).

Amherst Heights, Belmont, C. H. A. R. M, Charity Rotch, Chestnut Hills, Clearview, Colonial Hills, Columbia Heights, East Brookfield, Elms Acres, Greenwood Acres, Kendall Heights, Lawndale, Mayflower Village, Moffitt Heights, New England, Oak Ridge, Perry Heights, Raynell, Sippo Heights, University Village, Walnut Hills, Wellman, West Brookfield, West Park, Westadaro, Witmer Arms, Young Street

* The “ Old Bank of Montreal ” on 100 Victoria Street East, also known as the “ Heritage Court ”, Amherst, Nova Scotia built in 1906

* William Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst, Governor-General of India during the First Anglo-Burmese War that resulted in the annexation of Arakan, was created Earl Amherst, of Arracan in the East Indies in 1826.

Earl Amherst, of Arracan in the East Indies, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Paksoy has also worked in History departments at Ohio State University, Franklin University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Central Connecticut State University and the Middle East Center of Harvard University.

Fort Amherst, in Medway, South East England, was constructed in 1756 at the southern end of the Brompton lines of defence to protect the southeastern approaches to Chatham Dockyard and the River Medway against a French invasion.

Significant Massachusetts towns and cities in the Knowledge Corridor include Greenfield, Northampton, Amherst, Easthampton, Holyoke, Chicopee, West Springfield, East Longmeadow, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Agawam, and Westfield.

In descending order of size, its largest communities are: Springfield, Chicopee, Pittsfield, Westfield, Holyoke, Northampton, Agawam, West Springfield, Amherst Center ( CDP ), Easthampton, Longmeadow ( CDP ), East Longmeadow, North Adams, and Greenfield ( CDP ).

* East Amherst

He graduated from Amherst College in 1855 and moved to Maine, where he was the principal of the Washington Academy in East Machias.

Montreal's Gay Village ( The Village, French, Le Village gai or simply Le Village ) is located on Saint Catherine Street East, centred on Beaudry metro station, and on Amherst Street in the Ville-Marie borough of the city.

Black Rock's best-known resident was American poet Robert Creeley, who lived with his family in a converted firehouse at the corner of Amherst and East Streets from 1990 to 2003.

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Ralph Lee has taught at Amherst College, Bennington College, the Boys and Girls Republic ( on the Lower East Side in New York City ), Hampshire College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Smith College, Union Theological Seminary, and he has been on the faculty of New York University since 1988.

From his base at New York, Amherst oversaw the dispatch of troops to take part in British expeditions in the West Indies that led to the British capturing Dominica in 1761 and Martinique and Cuba in 1762.

* 1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

In 1901, along with his friend George Forbes, an Amherst College graduate, Trotter co-founded the Boston Guardian, setting up shop in the same building that had once housed William Lloyd Garrison ’ s Liberator.

1892 ( 1901 – 1910 ) and Charles Edward Pethybridge, Amherst B. A.

They had four children: Anna Seelye, who married Benjamin Kendall Emerson, an Amherst College professor, in 1901 ; Elizabeth Seelye, who married James Wilson Bixler, an Amherst graduate, in 1891, and who died in 1894 ; Mabel, who married Bixler in 1898 ; and William James Seelye, who graduated from Amherst College in 1879.

Robert Francis ( August 12, 1901 ; Upland, Pennsylvania – July 13, 1987 ) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Einstein's prediction was confirmed by many experiments, starting with Arthur Eddington's 1919 solar eclipse expedition.

Similarly, a 1919 expedition led by Eddington confirmed general relativity's prediction for the deflection of starlight by the Sun during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, making Einstein instantly famous.

It was the first eclipse expedition in which a spectroscope was used.

* 1919 – Arthur Eddington leads a solar eclipse expedition which claims to detect gravitational deflection of light by the Sun

In 1870, Stephen Joseph Perry went in charge of a government expedition to observe a solar eclipse at Carriacou.

In 1867, King Mongkut led an expedition to the Malay Peninsula south of Hua Hin, to verify his calculations of the Solar eclipse of 18 August 1868.

In 1870, he was part of an expedition to Italy to observe an eclipse, and survived a shipwreck along the Sicilian coast.

In his book Sirius Matters, Noah Brosch postulates that the Dogon may have had contact with astronomers based in Dogon territory during a five week expedition, led by Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, to study the solar eclipse of April 16, 1893.

In 1900 he, along with Langley, would travel to Wadesboro, North Carolina to observe a solar eclipse, followed by another eclipse expedition to Sumatra in 1901.

Then he took part in an official French expedition which observed and recorded a whole eclipse of the Sun in Alcossebre in Spain.

During a solar eclipse expedition in 1914 to verify general relativity, World War I broke out and he was interned in Russia.

Here, her interest in astronomy was sparked by Eddington's lecture on his 1919 eclipse expedition to Africa to photograph the stars near the eclipsed Sun as a test of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

A famous example in the 20th century of an experimentum crucis was the expedition led by Arthur Eddington to Principe Island in Africa in 1919 to record the positions of stars around the Sun during a solar eclipse.

In 1937, the New Zealand eclipse expedition reported 23 bird species on Kanton, together with Polynesian Rats, lizards, hermit crabs and turtles.

On 8 June 1937, Kanton was the site of a total solar eclipse and the island was occupied briefly by American and New Zealand scientists, members of an expedition organized by the National Geographic Society and led by the astronomer Samuel Alfred Mitchell.

In 1908 he joined an eclipse expedition to Flint Island in the central Pacific Ocean.

He suffered a heart attack while returning from an eclipse expedition in Sudan and died on 2 April 1952, at the age of 55.

Klinkerfues discovered 6 comets, and in 1860 led an expedition to Spain to observe a solar eclipse.

* The New England expedition to Texas for solar eclipse of July 29, 1878

* The American expedition to Japan for solar eclipse of August 19, 1887

* The Lowell expedition to Tripoli for solar eclipse of May 28, 1900

On 19 June 1936, he led the Harvard-MIT expedition to the steppes of Russia ( at Ak Bulak in southwestern Siberia ) to observe a total eclipse.