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Post by hollister on Dec 26, 2008 20:59:56 GMT -7
Just a little tidbit I found
How would you defeat a war elephant? With a war pig!
Pliny the Elder reported that "elephants are scared by the smallest squeal of a pig" (book VIII ch. 9). Antipater's siege of Megara during the Wars of the Diadochi was reportedly broken when the Megarians poured oil on a herd of pigs, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy's massed war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming squealing pigs often killing great numbers of the army the elephant was part of… The Romans would later use the squeals of pigs to frighten Pyrrhus' elephants…
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Post by karl on Dec 27, 2008 6:42:31 GMT -7
Holly
It is amazing, is it not, of a simple weapon such as use of lighting up a pig! I remember some of this from history, and had forgotten until introduction by your self!
When thought of, it would be a riotous scene if their direction could be assured, of a flame pain maddened pig running about through the ranks of the enemy...
Karl
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Post by redneck on Dec 27, 2008 21:26:18 GMT -7
During the American civil war it was common for both sides to send hunting parties out before a battle to kill any ferrel or penned hogs. A hog will eat a human alive if it smells blood. hogs were the greatest fear of a wounded soldier on the American battlefield.
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Post by archivist on Dec 28, 2008 16:05:25 GMT -7
Let's send some feral pigs/hogs to Iraq and Afghanistan!
Neville
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