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.
