This Week on Dispatches: Matthew Moss on the Ferguson Breech-Loading Rifle

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April 5, 2019

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In this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews British historian Matthew Moss and the story of Major Patrick Ferguson and the first breech-loading rifle adopted by the British Army, one of the most intriguing inventions of the American Revolution.

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This Week on Dispatches: Matthew Moss on the Ferguson Breech-Loading Rifle

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