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• 19 Jan 11
  

  Erica Howton
• 16 Jul 10
  

  Emily Polvado

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• 04 Jan 08
  

  whiteknoll

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  • The Battle of Kings Mountain
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Patriot victory, battle not pursued
  • William Campbell,
  • Frederick  Hambright,
  • Isaac Shelby
  • Joseph Winston
  • 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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  marinel marinel

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