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The Battle of Kings Mountain
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American Revolutionary War
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Patriot victory, battle not pursued
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William Campbell,
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Frederick
Hambright,
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Isaac Shelby
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Joseph Winston
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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.
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During the battle Ferguson was killed by the Over-Mountain men.
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With no bayonets of their own, the rebels retreated down the hill and into the
woods.
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Ferguson fell dead from his saddle with eight rifle balls in his body
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