>We honor General Amherst by having named a city and university in Massachusetts after him.

To be exact, a town (not city) in Massachusetts (as well as one in New York) is named for him.

The college (not university) there is named for the town, though the college teams are known as the Jeffs (for Lord (and General) Geoffrey Amherst).

Tamar (who knows this stuff because her son graduated from Amherst, a truly wonderful liberal arts college, last May)