Patrick Ferguson: 'A Man of Some Genius'

Gilchrist, Marianne

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'. Edinburgh: 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/