Last major conflict cap&ball revolvers issued

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I thought perhaps the Franco Prussian War 1870-1871 would have been the last war that these more primitive sixguns were standard issue.
However I found a reference to War of the Pacific between Chile and opposing Peru-Bolivian alliance 1879-1884, where these firearms were still in use. This could be very hard to peg down with less affluent nations and use regulated into reserve service.
Anyone have anything of historical reference to contribute?
Curious.....
 
World War II for a start:
https://bootcampmilitaryfitnessinst...-british-home-guard-1940-1944-clarke-2010.pdf
Beneath his authority from the Chief Constable of Wiltshire to hand over his firearms, pasted in a scrap book, Dineley laconically noted: ‘Dates from the great “Wind Up” and the organisation of the LDV and Home Guard. I armed all the neighbourhood out of my store thusly allaying a great deal of alarm.’4 Bapty’s premises in the West End of London were also striving to help the war effort, as Walter Lyall recalled in 1976: Until 1940 the wooden partition at the back of the landing also carried a tall, glass-fronted display case, removed by the police from a London pub, which contained a fine show of bulldog and Constabulary revolvers grouped round a .31 percussion Colt. When the war got rolling after Dunkirk Mrs Rush [the Manager] decided to break it up to satisfy the demand for handguns, just any handguns, in the Home Guard … (Lyall, 1976, p.309)
 
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