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War pigs are pigs reported to have been used in ancient warfare as a countermeasure against war elephants. 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.
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.
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/War_pig#:~:text=War%20pigs%20are%20pigs%20reported,elephants%20from%20Porus%20in%20India.
Your judgement day is coming, pig.
