Editing Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (section)

=== Germany ===
{{Further|Great Britain in the Seven Years War}}

{{Main|Invasion of Hanover (1757)}}
In February 1756, Amherst was appointed [[commissariat|commissar]] to the [[Hesse|Hessian]] forces that had been assembled to defend [[Hanover]] as part of the Army of Observation: as it appeared likely a French invasion attempt against Britain itself was imminent, Amherst was ordered in April to arrange the transportation of thousands of the Germans to southern England to bolster Britain's defences.<ref>Mayo pp. 34–37</ref> He was made colonel of the [[East Yorkshire Regiment|15th Regiment of Foot]] on 12 June 1756.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=9590|page=2|date=8 June 1756}}</ref> By 1757 as the immediate danger to Britain had passed the troops were moved back to Hanover to join a growing army under the Duke of Cumberland and Amherst fought with the Hessians under Cumberland's command at the [[Battle of Hastenbeck]] in July 1757:<ref name=heath24/> the Allied defeat there forced the army into a steady retreat northwards to [[Stade]] near the [[North Sea]] coast.<ref>Mayo pp. 37–38</ref>

Amherst was left dispirited by the retreat and by the [[Convention of Klosterzeven]] by which [[Hanover]] agreed to withdraw from the war: he began to prepare to disband the Hessian troops under his command, only to receive word that the Convention had been repudiated and the Allied force was being reformed.<ref>Mayo pp. 40–42</ref>