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Patrick Ferguson (1744 – 7 October 1780) was a Scottish officer in the British Army, an early advocate of light infantry and the designer of the Ferguson rifle. He is best known for his service in the 1780 military campaign of Charles Cornwallis during the American Revolutionary War in the Carolinas, in which he played a great ...
Ferguson ordered his men to attack the sleeping American troops with bayonets at dawn on October 15, 1778—the attack would go on to be known as the Little Egg Harbor massacre by the Americans.
Patrick Ferguson was a British soldier, marksman, and inventor of the Ferguson flintlock rifle. Ferguson served in the British army from 1759. In 1776 he patented a rifle—one of the earliest practical breechloaders—that was the best military firearm used in the American Revolution.
Learn about Patrick Ferguson, British Major during the American Revolution. Discover how he nearly won the war for the British.
24 de nov. de 2019 · Patrick Ferguson was a British officer during the American Revolution who invented a breech-loading rifle and was killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
26 de mar. de 2024 · Patrick Ferguson (1744–1780) was a Scottish-born in the British Army who rose to prominence during the American Revolutionary War. Ferguson is most famous for designing the first breech-loading rifle used by the British Army.
23 de jul. de 2019 · Patrick Ferguson was a Scottish officer in the British Army who fought in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. He was an early advocate of light infantry and designed a breech-loading rifle called the Ferguson rifle.
