really?
they massacred the Romans
The
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (
German:
Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald,
Hermannsschlacht, or
Varusschlacht), described as the
Varian Disaster (
Latin:
Clades Variana) by
Roman historians, took place in the
Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE, when an alliance of
Germanic tribes
ambushed and destroyed three
Roman legions and their
auxiliaries, led by
Publius Quinctilius Varus. The alliance was led by
Arminius, a Germanic officer of Varus's auxilia. Arminius had acquired
Roman citizenship and had received a Roman military education, which enabled him to deceive the Roman commander methodically and anticipate the
Roman army's tactical responses.
Despite several successful campaigns and raids by the Romans in the years after the battle, they never again attempted to conquer the
Germanic territories east of the
Rhine river, except for
Germania Superior.
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