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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. AMHERST, Jeffery (1717-1797), British Commander-in-Chief, North America . Letter signed ("Jeff: Amherst") to Colonel [John] Bradstreet (1711-1774), New York, 19 November 1759. page, large folio (324 x 208mm.), two small missing areas in blank left-hand margin. THE COST OF THE BRITISH VICTORIES AT TICONDEROGA A boldly penned letter from Amherst, Commander-in-chief of British forces in America during the Seven Years War, to Bradstreet, Deputy Quartermaster General. Having successfully captured Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point from the French three months previously, Amherst had ended his campaigns in mid-October for the winter. From his headquarters in New York he prepares to report to His Majesty's Treasury: "As the Several Considerable Sums that have this Year been drawn on account of the Department of the Quarter Master General, may seem Extraordinary to the Ministry, unless properly Accounted for, I must...desire that You will so soon as possible, transmit me Your Account of the Expenditure of the Several Sums paid You by Virtue of my Warrants, amounting to upwards of Seventy Thousand Pounds Sterling, in order that I may be able to Satisfy the Lords, Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, in the Accounts I must transmit to their Lordships." The following year, Amherst resumed his interupted campaign and successfully took Montreal, effectively ending French control of Canada. In recognition for his services at Louisbourg, Ticonderoga and Crown Point, Amherst was appointed to the sinecure governorship of Virginia. He returned to England in 1763 and in 1774 was again asked, but declined, to command British forces in America.