[Sparta]

Where they ultimately deployed the .45 ACP because the 38 special didn't have the punch to put the moros down.

You are correct. As for the origin of "to run amok", I don't know.

[curmudgeonII]

Where they ultimately deployed the .45 ACP because the 38 special didn't have the punch to put the moros down.

My grandfather fought in this insurretion. We also used a Dynamite gun according to him. It apparently threw a stick [sticks?] of dynamite out of a cannon by means of compressed air. [The navy at the time had a Dynamite Cruiser, the U.S.S. Vesuvius which had 3 cannons that were fixed in position - the ship had to be manouvered to point to the target before the guns could be fired. It wasn't very sccessful.]

As an aside, yellow fever killed 7 times the number of Americans that the Spanish amd Moros did.

[Ax]

If I recall correctly, the word "amok" is a Tagalog word. It referes to a mythical creature, somewhat akin to the Yeti or Sasquach, who rampages through jungle villages in central Luzon, wreaking havoc. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[denoferth]

A small correction: The 1911 was not ready so the .45 Colt was resurrected and deployed first.