Arminius: The Limits Of Empire

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One man's greatest victory Rome's greatest defeat AD 9 In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald in a landscape riven by ravines darkened by ancient oak & bisected by fast-flowing streams Arminius of the Cherusci led a confederation of six Germanic tribes in the annihilation of three Roman legions Deep in the forest almost twenty thousand men were massacred without mercy; fewer than two hundred of them ever made it back across the Rhine To Rome's shame three sacred Eagles were lost that day But Arminius wasn't brought up in Germania Magna
- he had been raised as a Roman This is the story of how Arminius came to turn his back on the people who raised him & went on to commit a betrayal so great & so deep it echoed through the ages