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==External links== {{Commons}} * [https://archivesspace.amherst.edu/repositories/2/resources/192 Jeffery Amherst Collection] at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections * [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-341amh Jeffery Amherst papers], William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan. * [https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/magazine/issues/2008fall/lordjeff Prof. Kevin Sweeney on Jeffery Amherst in America] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519202936/https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/magazine/issues/2008fall/lordjeff |date=19 May 2022 }} * {{cite DCB |first=C.P. |last=Stacey |title=Amherst, Jeffrey |volume=4 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/amherst_jeffery_4E.html}} * [http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Amherst.htm Historical Biographies: Jeffrey Amherst] * [http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html Amherst and Smallpox] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420234615/http://haldimand-collection.ca/?s=amherst Amherst in the Haldimand Papers] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928095106/http://www.college.ucla.edu/webproject/micro12/webpages/indianssmallpox.html Amherst and Smallpox Blankets] β 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. * [http://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/amherst/lord_jeff.html Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets] β Extensive discussion and documentation of Amherst's involvement in warfare against Native Americans and the smallpox blanket tactics ([[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]) * [http://1759.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca 1759 From the Warpath to the Plains of Abraham ( Virtual Exhibition)] * [http://www.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca National Battlefields Commission (Plains of Abraham)] * {{UK National Archives ID}} * {{cite book |last1=Hutchinson |first1=John |title=Men of Kent and Kentishmen |date=1892 |publisher=Cross & Jackman |location=Canterbury |pages=4β5 |edition=Subscription |chapter=[[s:Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Jeffrey Amherst|Jeffrey Amherst]]}} {{S-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=[[John Jordan (soldier)|John Jordan]]}} {{s-ttl|title=Colonel of the [[East Yorkshire Regiment|15th Regiment of 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