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Features, Interviews April 5, 2019 April 4, 2019

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

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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…

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Conflict & War, Military Technology, The War Years (1775-1783) December 13, 2018 December 8, 2018

Patrick Ferguson and His Rifle

by Matthew Moss

Maj. Patrick Ferguson’s rifle is one of the most interesting and significant early attempts at a breech-loading service rifle. Coupling a screw breech plug…

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