The circumstances demanded that their seriously wounded comrades be left to their fate within the camp palisade.Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 9/9/9 AD (the Cheruscans under Arminius (Hermann) defeat the 17th19th Roman Legions under Varus in the Teutoburg Forest).Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, (Autumn, 9 ce ), conflict between the Roman Empire and Germanic insurgents. He would soon be followed by the second battle group commanded by Caeonius. On the morning of September 11, Lucius Eggius led the first of two 4,000-man battle groups out of the Roman camp to the northwest. Varus began consulting with Arminius and in the. In AD 7 Publius Quinctilius Varus became Military Governor of Germany.One of the cases he investigated was a dispute between the Germans Arminius and Segestes.Varus ruled in Arminius favor, deciding that he was a loyal Roman and was quite taken with his intelligence and comman sense. Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in Give Me Back My Legions.

From these gates, the Germans could launch surprise cavalry and infantry attacks, throwing the Romans into confusion. These ramparts had many hidden gates camouflaged with brushwood. The ramparts were topped with a palisade of posts and twisted tree limbs giving the German defenders protection up to chest level.

A few hundred, including Caeonius, were able to make it back to the safety of the palisade protected Roman camp.Meanwhile, the Roman “tortoise assault,” keeping their shields over their heads to produce a huge protective roof of shields that denied the Germans complete tactical domination because of the height of the ramparts and palisades, was having at least some success. Most were slaughtered in the confusing melee, but many fled into the rear of Eggius’s battle group, causing them confusion. The second Roman battle group was quickly broken up and routed. Many of the German cavalrymen were wearing Roman equipment.

Eggius was killed, and the courageous Roman “tortoise assault’ on the ramparts faltered and then failed. When reports came forward that the second battle group had been almost totally destroyed, Eggius probably realized that Arminius would soon be in a position to attack his rear or block his retreat.Moreover, the Germans then released cavalry and infantry assaults from the camouflaged gates of their ramparts, soon resulting in Roman confusion and disorder. Several places on the ramparts and palisades had collapsed or were temporarily breached.

He sent a small group forward to offer safe conduct for Caeonius to speak with him. Only a small Roman cavalry vanguard was able to slip past the berserk fury of the last group Agrivarii warriors.Having completed the destruction of the last Roman resistance beneath Kalkriese Hill, Arminius and an intimidating force arrived at the gate of the Roman camp, now called Felsenfeld. In the end, pure numbers and Germanic fury overwhelmed the desperate and outmaneuvered Romans, who fought bravely to the last man.

In 15 AD, Tiberius sent the young Roman General Germanicus to Germania to settle some scores, punishing the Cherusci, the Bructeri, the Marsi, and the Angrivarii for their support of Arminius. Maroboduus refused to be intimidated and sent the carefully packed head to Rome.A number of other tribes joined Arminius in his rebellion against Rome, but in 14 AD Tiberius became emperor, succeeding Augustus. Varus’s head was carefully packed and sent to Maroboduus, Arminius’s chief Germanic rival and leader of the formidable Marcomanni tribal coalition. The Germans dragged Varus’s half-burned body out of the shallow grave and severed his head. At Arminius’s signal, the Germans secured the gate, overran the camp, and killed Caeonius and his remaining soldiers. “Where is Varus?” Caeonius led him into the camp and showed him a grave, where the partially burned body of Varus was buried.

The Germans also enslaved some military prisoners.After 16 AD, the Romans never again tried to occupy Germanic territory east of the Rhine. Perhaps another thousand who went ahead with 19th Legion Prefect Lucius Caedicius to Aliso survived. That would include approximately 3,000 German auxiliaries and other legion soldiers whose cultural and family loyalties could not be bought with Roman money or Roman citizenship, especially in light of Varus’s terrible misunderstanding of and disregard for Germanic culture. His only son, Thumelicus, whom he never saw, became a Roman gladiator and died young.Probably, at least 4,000 men of Varus’s legions survived Teutoburg. Arminius was murdered in 21 AD (age 40) by political rivals claiming he was growing too powerful.

Arminius Battle Of Teutoburg Forest