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Patrick Ferguson: 'A Man of Some Genius'

Gilchrist, Marianne

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Abstract

The first modern biography of Patrick Ferguson, designer of the first breech-loading rifle used by the British army.
"... painstaking, vivid and accurate. I can think of no short biography which has pleased me more, or thrown a brighter light on to the events in which its subject played his small but distinguished part." Richard Holmes, TV historian and author of 'Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket'.

Citation

Gilchrist, M. (2003). Patrick Ferguson: 'A Man of Some Genius'. NMSE Publishing Ltd

Book Type Monograph
Publication Date Jun 16, 2003
Deposit Date Oct 28, 2022
Series Title Scots Lives
ISBN 9781901663747
Keywords Patrick Ferguson, Scottish Enlightenment, American War of Independence, inventor, military history, Edinburgh, colonial history, eighteenth century, British Army, American Loyalists
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4105348
Publisher URL https://www.nms.ac.uk/about-us/our-organisation/nms-enterprises/