"You will do well to try to innoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts, as well as to try every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race. I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by Dogs could take effect, but England is at too great a Distance to think of that at present."

- Lord Gen. Jeffrey Amherst, British Commander-in-Chief of America, to Col. Henry Bouquet 16 July 1763.

This Amherst is indeed the namesake of the college and city in Massachusetts.  Bouquet, a Swiss mercenary, was subsequently promoted to Brigadier General and placed in charge of British military forces in the then-colonies of the southern US.  He died in 1765, ironically, it is believed, from yellow fever.

Image couresty of Peter d'Errico. For more information see d'Errico's detailed page on the subject here:
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html