Major Patrick Ferguson designed the British Army's first breech-loading rifle, which so impres sed King George III, he sent him to help General Howe quell the fracticious colonialists.
Nice balance of the “evil” PF and the “man of some genius “. The truth I’m sure lies in between. But we needed a Loyalist view of him. I was disappointed that his lover Sal who was buried with him gets barely a mention.