“...Repeated rebellions by the Moros against American rule continued to break out...
Read up before you start rewriting history...” [dsc, post 65]
I’m not rewriting history.
I’m explaining how the military establishment developed and fielded weapons (and still does). This requires reference to actual documentation, not years-after anecdotes told and re-told around campfires, across mess tables, or traded during slow nightwatches on guard duty.
From the 1890s until early 1911, the US War Dept conducted a long series of evaluations & modifications of sundry semi-automatic pistols before choosing a new official sidearm for the Army. Developmental semi-auto pistols were not sent to the Philippine Department, so there wasn’t any side-by-side comparison between the standard issue Colt DA revolvers firing 38 Long Colt, and any 45 cal autoloader.
I can’t say why you insist otherwise.
“so there wasn’t any side-by-side comparison between the standard issue Colt DA revolvers firing 38 Long Colt, and any 45 cal autoloader.”
Not required. Soldiers on the front lines said “When I shoot them with this, they drop. When I shoot them with that, they don’t.”
Not good enough for you? Don’t care. Get into combat and check it for yourself.