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- War_pig abstract "War pigs are pigs reported to have been used in ancient warfare, mostly as a countermeasure against war elephants. In the first century BC, Lucretius noted that early humans may have attempted to launch wild beasts, such as lions or \"savage boars\", against the enemy, but with catastrophic results. According to legend recounted in the \"Alexander Romance\" by Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander the Great learned about this \"secret weapon\" against war elephants from Porus in India.Pliny the Elder reported that \"elephants are scared by the smallest squeal of the hog\". Aelian confirmed that elephants were frightened by squealing pigs (and rams with horns), and reported that the Romans exploited squealing pigs (and rams) to repel the war elephants of Pyrrhus in 275 BC. Procopius, in History of the Wars, records that the defenders of Edessa suspended a squealing pig from the walls to frighten away Khosrau's single siege elephant in the sixth century AD. Historical accounts of incendiary pigs or flaming pigs were recorded by the military writer Polyaenus and by Aelian. Both writers reported that Antigonus II Gonatas' siege of Megara in 266 BC was broken when the Megarians doused some pigs with combustible pitch, crude oil or resin, 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 their own soldiers by trampling them to death.".
- War_pig wikiPageID "8484921".
- War_pig wikiPageLength "2470".
- War_pig wikiPageOutDegree "20".
- War_pig wikiPageRevisionID "672514074".
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Alexander_romance.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_warfare.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Antigonus_II_Gonatas.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_animals.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pigs.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Category:Warfare_of_Antiquity.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Category:Working_animals.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Claudius_Aelianus.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Edessa.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Khosrow_I.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Lucretius.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Megara.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Pig.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Pliny_the_Elder.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Polyaenus.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Porus.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Procopius.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Pyrrhus_of_Epirus.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink Resin.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLink War_elephant.
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLinkText "War pig".
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLinkText "incendiary pigs".
- War_pig wikiPageWikiLinkText "war pig".
- War_pig wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Distinguish.
- War_pig wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Other_uses.
- War_pig wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Pigs.
- War_pig wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- War_pig wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:RomanMilitary.
- War_pig subject Category:Military_animals.
- War_pig subject Category:Pigs.
- War_pig subject Category:Warfare_of_Antiquity.
- War_pig subject Category:Working_animals.
- War_pig hypernym Pigs.
- War_pig type Mammal.
- War_pig type Thing.
- War_pig comment "War pigs are pigs reported to have been used in ancient warfare, mostly as a countermeasure against war elephants. In the first century BC, Lucretius noted that early humans may have attempted to launch wild beasts, such as lions or \"savage boars\", against the enemy, but with catastrophic results.".
- War_pig label "War pig".
- War_pig differentFrom Pig_War.
- War_pig sameAs Q2981349.
- War_pig sameAs Porc_de_guerre.
- War_pig sameAs Babi_perang.
- War_pig sameAs m.02752_m.
- War_pig sameAs Боевые_свиньи.
- War_pig sameAs Бойові_свині.
- War_pig sameAs Q2981349.
- War_pig sameAs 戰豬.
- War_pig wasDerivedFrom War_pig?oldid=672514074.
- War_pig isPrimaryTopicOf War_pig.