Not long after this finding, the US came out with the. Later assessments by US military authorities of the battle results concluded that the reason for the substantial casualties suffered by the US forces was that they were out-gunned by the Spanish defenders and their Model 93 Mauser rifles chambered for the 7×57mm cartridge. About twice the number of defenders were casualties on the US side. While the US forces prevailed, they did so at a very high price. soldiers attacked around 750 Spanish defenders in and around San Juan Hill. The rifle for it by Krag-Jorgensen had to be loaded a single cartridge at a time, whereas the Spanish troops were armed with Mauser 93, which was loaded from a clip, a much faster method.Īt the major battle of the campaign, about 6,500 U.S. 30-40 Krag cartridge loaded with a 220 grain round-nose bullet at a muzzle velocity of 2000 fps. 30-06 in 1906.Īt the time of the Spanish-American conflict in 1898, the US Army was armed with the. If Paul Mauser had not developed this cartridge in 1892, and had Spain not adopted it as their military cartridge a year later, we might not have developed and then adopted the. It was among the first of a number of late 19th- early 20th-Century conflicts the 7mm Mauser cartridge proved its worth. The Spanish Mauser, firing 7x57mm cartridges, was used with great effect by the Spanish in the Spanish-American War.
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