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To: Renfield
From wiki:War Pig:
Historical accounts of incendiary pigs or flaming pigs were recorded by the military writer Polyaenus[7] and by Aelian.[8] Both writers reported that Antigonus II Gonatas' siege of Megara in 266 BC was broken when the Megarians doused some pigs with combustible pitch 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.

9 posted on 03/16/2014 6:52:35 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Did they serve the cooked pigs afterward?

Mmmmmhhhh, Bacon.


16 posted on 03/16/2014 7:15:54 AM PDT by glorgau
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