Editing Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (section)

===French Revolutionary Wars===
On 8 July 1788, he became colonel of the [[2nd Regiment of Life Guards]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13005|page=325|date=5 July 1788}}</ref> and on 30 August 1788 he was created Baron Amherst (this time with the [[territorial designation]] ''of Montreal in the County of Kent'') with a special provision that would allow this title to pass to his nephew (as Amherst was childless, the Holmesdale title became extinct upon his death).<ref name=gazmtl>{{London Gazette|issue=13020|page=413|date=26 August 1788}}</ref> 

With the advent of the [[French Revolutionary Wars]], Amherst was recalled as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in January 1793: however is generally criticised for allowing the armed forces to slide into acute decline, a direct cause of the failure of the early campaigns in the Low Countries: [[William Pitt the Younger|Pitt the Younger]] said of him "his age, and perhaps his natural temper, are little suited to the activity and the energy which the present moment calls for".<ref>Burne p. 209</ref> [[Horace Walpole]] called him "that log of wood whose stupidity and incapacity are past belief".<ref>Burne p. 227</ref> "He allowed innumerable abuses to grow up in the army… He kept his command, though almost in his dotage, with a tenacity that cannot be too much censured".<ref>Burne p. 228</ref>