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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Set in the year 9 A.D., the series follows a group of Germanic tribes that confront the Roman empire in a moment that will change European history: the battle in the Teutoburg Forest.
In 9 AD, three Roman legions were ambushed and annihilated in a narrow forested pass in northern Germania. Led by the trusted yet deceived governor Varus, the Roman army walked into a devastating ...
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.
In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the years that followed several attempts were made to capture or kill the German mastermind, ...
Several years earlier, Arminius had ambushed and annihilated three Roman legions in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. This time, it was Rome that would emerge victorious.
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 ...
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