Warfronts. The Battle of Teutoburg Forest: How Rome Lost 20,000 Men in Four Days. Posted: June 17, 2025 | Last updated: June 17, 2025. In 9 AD, three Roman legions were ambushed and annihilated in ...

Iskander Rehman, Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius (Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024) In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the ...

The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest Peter S. Wells. W. W. Norton & Company, $24.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-393-02028-1 ...

Between 6 B.C. and A.D. 4, Roman legions established bases on the Lippe and Weser rivers. Mike Reagan “This is the soil of 2,000 years ago, where we are standing now,” Susanne Wilbers-Rost was ...

A bloody assault by Roman legions on a hill fort in Scotland around 1,800 years ago is being pieced together using the remains of Roman missile weapons that were used in the attack.

They were able to take out three Roman legions in the fight. More On: ... After this battle the Roman Empire never again tried to conquer the Germanic tribes east of the Rhine river.

Roman legions in the first century B.C. were generally loyal to a political leader, who also led the legion in battle as the commanding general. Julius Caesar, ...

When Tiberius became emperor, he commissioned Germanicus to reestablish Roman influence east of the Rhine River after the Germanic tribes defeated the Roman legions in the Battle of the Teutoburg ...