Amherst granted some Seneca ( originally his allies ) lands to his officers.

The lines of Chatham's policy were abandoned in other cases besides the imposition of the import duty ; his opponents were taken into confidence ; and friends, such as Amherst and Shelburne, were dismissed from their posts.

He also travelled to New York and surrounding areas such as Boston and Amherst College in Massachusetts.

For decades American colleges such as Duke University, Stanford, Amherst, Northwestern, Gonzaga, Berkeley and Southern Methodist University maintained a number of annual student seats.

Travelers are drawn to the Pioneer Valley by its lively college towns, such as Northampton and Amherst ; the resurgent city of Springfield ; its unspoiled nature, numerous parks, and recreational facilities, including New England's largest and most popular amusement park, Six Flags New England in Agawam ; its cultural and historical sites, such as the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, the United States Armory at Springfield National Park, and the Basketball Hall of Fame on Springfield's riverfront.

The Town was originally a group of smaller villages such as Amherst and Hardscrabble, which were later named Hamilton.

The idea for such an athletic conference originated with an agreement among Amherst College, Bowdoin College, Wesleyan University and Williams College drafted in 1955.

CDPs may be defined to describe urbanized areas within such municipalities, as in the case of North Amherst, Massachusetts.

For example, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been supporting an academic major called the University Without Walls-UMass Amherst which is dedicated to helping non-traditional students complete their bachelor's degrees since 1971. Women's colleges also offer programs for older women who would like to return to school, such as Agnes Scott College's Irene K. Woodruff return-to-college program, Mount Holyoke College's Frances Perkins Program, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College's Women's External Degree Program, Simmons College ( Massachusetts )' s Dorothea Lynde Dix Scholars Program, Smith College's Ada Comstock Scholars Program, Bryn Mawr College's Katherine McBride Scholars Program, and Wellesley College's Davis Degree Program.

However, Daphne Patai, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has criticized this aspect of women's studies programs, arguing that they place politics over education, arguing that " the strategies of faculty members in these programs have included policing insensitive language, championing research methods deemed congenial to women ( such as qualitative over quantitative methods ), and conducting classes as if they were therapy sessions.

Based on research conducted in the 30 years since Sesame Street by theorists such as Daniel Anderson of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who served as a consultant for Blue's Clues, the producers set out to develop a show that took advantage of children's intellectual and behavioral activity when watching television.

Universities such as New York University, Amherst College, Princeton University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yeshiva University, and Reed College have formal policies allowing students to defer admission.

The sinking of homes in the lakebed has been an ongoing problem in communities such as Amherst, New York.

Former Seawolves are currently playing for NCAA Division I, II and III schools such as Harvard University, Columbia University, Brown University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Dartmouth College, Amherst College, Williams College, Colby College, Middlebury College among others.

Participants in reenactment events often don tricornes, and they also can be seen in sports culture as worn by fans of teams with Revolutionary names, such as the New England Patriots ( an American football team ), the New England Revolution ( a Major League Soccer team ), the United States men's national soccer team, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the George Washington University.

These scenarios cover the Western and Eastern Fronts, as well as the Mediterranean and Pacific Theaters and include classic battles such as: Operation Crusader ; Operation Amherst ; and two different renditions of Sword Beach-all designed for the 13 x 17 hex Breakthrough format.

In 1770 Lt General Skinner extended and strengthened the lines, the Amherst Redoubt was strengthened, further batteries added ( such as the Cornwallis Battery ) and the ditches revetted ( lined with brick ).

Fort Amherst has been described by English Heritage as the most complete Napoleonic fortification in Britain and as such has great national historical significance.

The Tonda Troupe has also been active in training American college and university students in traditional Japanese puppetry in academic programs sponsored by such institutions as Berea College in Kentucky and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as the Japan Center for Michigan Universities, which is located in the nearby city of Hikone.

The stated purpose of such a law is " In accordance with the Town of Amherst ’ s Home Rule Authority, and to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the inhabitants of the Town, this bylaw shall permit the Town to impose liability on owners and other responsible persons for the nuisances and harm caused by loud and unruly gatherings on private property and shall discourage the consumption of alcoholic beverages by underage persons at such gatherings.

Other notable early settlers of Henry County include Colonel George Waller, Captain George Hairston and Major John Redd, all of whom were present at the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown ; Col. Abraham Penn, a native of Amherst County, Virginia, who led his Henry County militia troops with the intention of joining General Nathaniel Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War ; and Brigadier General Joseph Martin, for whom Martinsville is named.

The last French governor-general of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, surrendered to British Major General Jeffrey Amherst on September 8, 1760.

The new general was placed in command of the Albany post, serving under Major General Jeffery Amherst.

He was given the task of carrying Major General Jeffrey Amherst, the expedition's commander to Louisbourg.

General Amherst, held responsible for the uprising by the Board of Trade, was recalled to London in August 1763 and replaced by Major General Thomas Gage.

John C. Hammond and Henry P. Field, both Amherst graduates, introduced Coolidge to the law practice in the county seat of Hampshire County.

In 1778 when the British commander in North America, William Howe, requested to be relieved, Amherst was considered as a replacement by the government: however, his insistence that it would require 75, 000 troops to fully defeat the rebellion was not acceptable to the government, and Henry Clinton was instead chosen to take over from Howe in America.

In the wake of the Gordon Riots, Amherst was forced to resign as Commander-in-Chief in February 1782 and was replaced by Henry Conway.

* Amherst and Smallpox Blankets-Excerpts from actual letters in which Lord Jeffery Amherst approves smallpox plan ( dated 16 July 1763 ) and discusses other methods of killing Native Americans with Colonel Henry Bouquet.

Lord Jeffrey Amherst is also infamous for initiating the practice of giving smallpox blankets to Native Americans in a genocidal effort " to Extirpate this Execrable Race " ( as quoted from his letter to Colonel Henry Bouquet on July 16, 1763 ).

There are several accounts of intentional infection of American Indian people with smallpox perhaps most notably by the Colonel Henry Bouquet and Jeffery Amherst of the British army circa 1763.

Standard Oil of New York president, then chairman of the board, Henry Clay Folger, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College, was an avid collector of Shakespeareana.

* Amherst College: Henry Steele Commager Project

In 1816 Staunton proceeded as second commissioner on a special mission to Beijing with Lord Amherst and Sir Henry Ellis.

In 1944 the Cincinnati Art Museum mounted a smaller version, in 1958 Amherst College held an exhibition of 62 works, 41 of which were in the original show, and in 1963 the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York organized the " 1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition " sponsored by the Henry Street Settlement in New York, which included more than 300 works.

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?

Sir Henry Richard Amherst Cecil ( born 11 January 1943 ) is a successful English flat racing trainer, widely regarded as one of the greatest trainers to have ever graced the Turf.

His father, Henry Cecil, younger brother of the 3rd Lord Amherst of Hackney, had been killed in action with the Parachute Regiment in North Africa a fortnight earlier.

Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil, fourth son of the second Baroness and Lord William Cecil.

Henry Emmerson was educated at Amherst Academy, Mount Allison Academy, St. Joseph's College, Acadia College and earned a law degree from Boston University.

Stanley N. King was born at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York on May 11, 1883, the son of Judge Henry Amasa King ( Amherst College, 1873 and Columbia Law School, 1877 ) a justice of Superior Court of Massachusetts and Maria Lyon Flynt.

The letters of Colonel Henry Boquet and Jeffery Amherst of the British army reveal a plan to eliminate Anishnaabe people through the intentional distribution of smallpox infected materials at Fort Pitt circa 1763.

Rocky Johnson was born Wayde Douglas Bowles in Amherst, Nova Scotia, where he was raised, the fourth of five sons of Lillian and James Henry Bowles.