File:SIA-2004-26282-02.jpg
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English: This is one of three prototypes Patrick Ferguson had made in 1776. It is the same rifle Ferguson fired in a demonstration for George III. Ferguson gave the rifle to Frederic De Peyster, a New York loyalist militia officer. The Ferguson was one of the first breech loading rifles used in battle. It employed a breechlock - a vertical rising screw that was lowered by rotating the trigger guard. This opened the breech for loading. This improvement allowed the rifle to fire four to six shots per minute. |
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| Source | Ferguson Breech-Loader at the National Museum of American History (link) |
| Author | National Museum of American History |
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| current | 08:48, 14 March 2021 | | 1,889 × 447 (169 KB) | Amlz (talk | contribs) | Reverted to version with less negative space |
| 01:12, 13 March 2021 |  | 2,000 × 420 (129 KB) | Marcric (talk | contribs) | just a higher resolution of the same image | |
| 11:56, 14 August 2018 |  | 1,889 × 447 (169 KB) | ВоенТех (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
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