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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.
Patrick Ferguson Millard was born at Aspatria, Cumberland in March 1902. His father the Rev. F. L. H. Millard M.A. was vicar of St. Kentigern's Church between 1898 and 1905. . His mother was the daughter of Robert S. Ferguson (1837-1900) M.A., LL.M, F.S.A., Mayor of Carlisle in 1881 and again in 1
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
Jesse Patrick Ferguson is a Canadian folk musician and poet. He was born in Cornwall, Ontario and has lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and Sydney, Nova Scotia. He has produced 5 studio albums of folk music, [1] most recently Folk Favourites (2017). He performs music publicly in Ontario, Canada, and maintains a folk-music ...