Ferguson personally invented, patented, and successfully field-tested a breech-loading musket which he called 'the Ferguson Rifle' which could fire faster and with greater accuracy than the British Brown Bess muzzle-loading musket.
During the battle Ferguson was killed by the Over-Mountain men.
With no bayonets of their own, the rebels retreated down the hill and into the woods.
Ferguson fell dead from his saddle with eight rifle balls in his body
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