Nice Save!!!
Nice Save!!!
Beautiful!
"I was home... What happened? What the Hell Happened?" - MM1 Jacob Holman, USS San Pablo
If it saw action at all, it would have been in the Far East - China (relief expedition to Peking 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion) or the Philippine Insurrection, 1901-02.
The war in Cuba was fought with M1892, M1892/96, M1896 rifles and M1896 carbines.
I was looking and trying to find how many soldiers there were and where during that time frame to get an idea of how many were just being stored. Looking at serial numbers, I'm guessing 250,000 to 275,000 were made after the one I have?
I got a little side tracked when I ran across some info on the battalion my dad was in. 87th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
IIRC, highest number known is around 489,000. They had to keep pretty close records, and especially didn't want to exaggerate, because of the royalty due. Some of those high numbers were made for repairs - not all were completed guns. Production basically stopped in 1893, though there were supposedly a handful made in 1904.