Patrick Ferguson
(1744-1780)
British Army officer
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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 effort in recruiting American Loyalists to serve in his militia against the Patriots.
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4 June 1744 Pitfour, Aberdeenshire, Great Britain
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| Died |
7 October 1780 (aged 36) Near Kings Mountain, North Carolina, US
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank · Uncle · 1703-1778 · Scottish soldier, lawyer, author and economist
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