Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Amherst (Mass.)
View of the drill hall with three cannons on the lawn. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H. Hitchcock (1894): The drill Hall was erected in 1883, at an expenditure of $6500. The Armory, at the right of the entrance, contains the arms furnished by the state to the college corps of cadets. The main hall is 123 feet long and 48 feet wide, and has an asphalt floor. It is heated by a hot-water system, introduced in 1888. This comfortable winter quarters of the corps is used by the students as a gymnasium. The second floor of the building contains the commandant's office, and a recitation room for the classes in military tactics science. A short stairway leads into the tower of the building. On the campus adjoining this building are earthworks for use in mortar practice -- a part of the regular military training of the college.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Amherst the village beautiful, cultured and literary/Amherst House hotel par excellence [brochure]. Springfield, Mass. : John C. Otto, printer, n.d.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1900
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Letter to Mary Boltwood
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Letter to Mary Boltwood from her husband on the day before he says he is to set sail with a large contingent of soldiers, from Lake George to Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga controlled the route between the Hudson River Valley and Canada in the wars of the eighteenth century. In 1755, Ticonderoga (Fort Carillon to the French) was built by the French on a military road on an Indian portage between the two lakes. The area then became an active place of fighting between the Indians, French, British, and Americans. General Jeffery Amherst captured the fort in late July, 1759, several weeks after this letter was written.
Letter is incomplete. In this letter the word "battos" means "bateaux" -- a long, tapering, flat-bottomed river boat.
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1758-07-05
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Military drill on M.A.C. fields
Drill and minor tactics
Amherst (Mass.)
Military drill performance on the Massachusetts Agricultural College fields. Soldiers are lined up in rows.
Scott, Edgar T., 1858-1940
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Circa 1900
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Jeffery Amherst letter to Lt. Col. Bradstreet, March 5, 1759
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Bradstreet, John, 1711-1774
Letter from Jeffery Amherst to Lt. Col. John Bradstreet regarding construction of boats, hire and pay of laborers, and finance for military campaign, March 5, 1759. Several months later Amherst successfully captured Fort Ticonderoga on the Hudson River from the French.
In this letter the word "battoes" means bateaux -- a long, tapering, flat-bottomed, river boat.
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
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1759-03-05
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