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People: Gaius Julius Civilis
Topic: Teutoburg Forest, Battle of the
Location: Turbat Balochistan Pakistan

Teutoburg Forest, Battle of the

Years: 9 - 9

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest takes place in the year 9 (probably lasting from September 9 to September 11) when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushes and destroys three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus.The battle begins a seven-year war that will establish the Rhine as the boundary of the Roman Empire for the next four hundred years, until the decline of the Roman influence in the West.

The Roman Empire will make no further concerted attempts to conquer Germania beyond the Rhine.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)