GENERAL AMHERST.
From an engraving in John Knox’s Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North America (1757-60). London, 1769. There is also an engraving in Entick’s Hist. of the Late War, iv. 129.
Reynolds painted three likenesses of Amherst, and sketched a fourth one, begun May, 1765, and finished February, 1768, which gave his army in the background, passing the rapids of the St. Lawrence. This was engraved in mezzotint by James Watson. (Hamilton’s Engraved Works of Reynolds, pp. 1, 163; J. C. Smith’s Brit. Mezzotint Portraits, London, 1878-83, iii. 1008, and iv. 1488; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., vii. 101; Catal. Cab. M. H. Soc., p. 45.) Amherst was born in 1717, and died in 1797.
There was never more need of strong counsel in Canada. The gasconade of Vaudreuil had reached the limit of its purpose. The plunder by officials, both of the people and of the king, was an enormity that could not last much longer. It seemed to the wisest that food and reinforcements, and those in no small amounts, could alone save Canada, unless, indeed, some kind of a peace could be settled upon in Europe. To claim help and to learn, Bougainville and Doreil were sent to France. Nothing they said could gain much but what was easily given,—promotion in rank to Montcalm and the rest. They represented that the single purpose which now animated the English colonies was quite a different thing from the old dissensions among them, the existence of which had favored the French in the past. The demand in Europe was, however, inexorable; and all that France could promise was a few hundred men and a campaign’s supplies of munitions.
FORT PITT OR PITTSBOURG.
From Mante’s Hist. of the Late War, London, 1772, p. 158. Cf. also the plan in Egle’s Pennsylvania, p. 98; and the corner sketch of the plate in Bancroft, United States (orig. ed.), iv. 189.