PATRICK FERGUSON: A MAN OF SOME GENIUS

Patrick Ferguson, a gifted and innovative young light infantry captain from Edinburgh, is best remembered for designing the Ferguson Rifle. Destined to die young in battle far away from his homeland, his life story has since been obscured by American myth and Scottish neglect. Growing up during the Edinburgh Enlightenment, Ferguson's early army career took him to Germany and out to the Caribbean, but it was his battlefield heroics in the American War of Independence that were to make him the stuff of legend to his enemies. This incisive biography, the first to use his personal letters, reveals the talent, courage and wit of the man behind the Ferguson Rifle. NOW HALF-PRICE!