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Patrick Ferguson was born at Pitfour in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, [1] [2] on 25 May ()/4 June 1744, the second son and fourth child of advocate James Ferguson of Pitfour (who was raised to the judges' bench as a Senator of the College of Justice, so known as Lord Pitfour after 1764) and his wife Anne Murray, a sister of the literary patron Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank.
The Ferguson rifle was one of the first breech-loading rifles to be put into service by the British military. It was designed by Major Patrick Ferguson (1744–1780). It fired a standard British carbine ball of .615" calibre and was used by the British Army in the American Revolutionary War at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, and possibly at the Siege of Charleston in 1780.
Donald Forrester Brown (23 February 1890 – 1 October 1916) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the face of the enemy that could be awarded at that time to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces.
Ferguson pardoned a captured frontiersmen named Samuel Phillips (a cousin to Isaac Shelby) so that Phillips could carry a message to the Overmountain settlements. In the message, Ferguson warned the Overmountain Men that if they didn't lay down their arms, he would "march his army over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay waste the ...
The Loyalist "American Volunteers", were led by British Army commander, Major Patrick Ferguson, into the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain, in which, Ferguson was shot dead, from his horse, by Patriot "Overmountain Men" and the American Volunteers were virtually annihilated, as a fighting force, in the most disastrous, British-Loyalist defeat, of ...
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Patrick Ferguson is a drummer from Athens, Georgia. He has played with Five Eight, [1] The Low Lows, the Psychedelic Furs, [2] Southern Bitch, [3] Music Hates You [4] and Vic Chesnutt, among others. As a session musician has also appeared on albums by Vigilantes of Love founder Bill Mallonee and others. [5] Ferguson is an identical twin.
Patrick Ferguson was a Scottish army officer. Patrick or Pat Ferguson is also the name of: Patrick Ferguson (drummer) Pat Ferguson, character played by Richard Riehle; Pat Ferguson, in 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans