title: American Volunteers
text: # American Volunteers
  
  The American Volunteers were a British Loyalist unit during the American Revolutionary War.
  
  ## Company formed
  
  British Army Major Patrick Ferguson raised the "American Volunteers" in 1779 in the Province of New York.
  
  ## Campaigns
  
  In 1780, the Volunteers were sent to the Siege of Charleston. On 2 May 1780 they captured the redoubt at Haddrell's Point. The Battle of King's Mountain resulted in the death of Major Ferguson and the unit's virtual annihilation.
  
  