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Instead, he offered Germanicus the honor of a triumph for his two victories. Tiberius denied the request of Germanicus to launch an additional campaign for AD 17, however, having decided the frontier with Germania would stand at the Rhine river. In AD 15 Roman troops managed to recapture one of the three legionary eagles lost in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Arminius also faced opposition from his father-in-law and other pro-Roman Germanic leaders. Roman retaliation, inter-tribal conflicts, and deathДonop's Pond ( Donoperteich) in the Teutoburg ForestД«etween 14 and 16 AD, Germanicus launched punitive operations into Germany, twice defeating Arminius (according to Tacitus): first in the Battle of the Weser River and later near the Wall of the Angrivarii. Roman attempts to reconquer Germany failed although they managed to break Arminius's alliance. Arminius's success in destroying three entire legions and driving the Romans out of Germany was one of the most devastating defeats Rome suffered in its history, and a high point of Germanic power for centuries. When defeat was certain, Varus committed suicide by falling on his sword. Recent archaeological finds show the long-debated location of the three-day battle was almost certainly near Kalkriese Hill, about 20 km north of OsnabrГјck. Arminius's tribe, the Cherusci, and their allies the Marsi, Chatti, Bructeri, Chauci, and Sicambri (five out of at least fifty Germanic tribes at the time) ambushed and annihilated Varus's entire army, totaling over 20,000 men. Varus and his legions marched right into the trap Arminius had set for them near Kalkriese, the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

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He persuaded Varus to divert the three legions under his command (composed of the 17th, 18th and 19th legions, plus three cavalry detachments and six cohorts of auxiliaries) from the march to winter quarters to suppress the rebellion. 9, the 25-year-old Arminius brought to Varus a report of rebellion in northern Germany. Arminius began plotting to unite various Germanic tribes to thwart Roman efforts to incorporate their lands into the empire. 7 or 8, where the Roman Empire had established secure control of the territories just east of the Rhine, along the Lippe and Main rivers, and was now seeking to extend its hegemony eastward to the Weser and Elbe rivers, under Publius Quinctilius Varus, a high-ranking administrative official appointed by Augustus as governor.

4, Arminius assumed command of a Cheruscan detachment of Roman auxiliary forces, probably while fighting in the Pannonian wars on the Balkan peninsula. Main article: Battle of the Teutoburg ForestДЄround the year A.D. Coming from the Old High German 'heri'-war, and 'man', man. Hermann is also the German for 'Man of War'. As a consequence,ДЄrminius is traditionally known as Hermann der CheruskerfГјrst in German. The origin of the name 'Hermann' dates from the 16th century, possibly first by Luther, the name Arminius was identified as a Latinized form of the name Hermann. The origin of the Latin name of Arminius is unknown. The 2000th year anniversary of the battle was not commemorated by the German government. Following World War II, however, schools often shunned the topic since it had become associated with the militant nationialism of the Third Reich, and many modern Germans have not heard about Arminius. Дuring the Unification of Germany in the 19th century, Arminius became hailed by nationalists as a symbol of German unity and freedom. After subsequent defeats by the Roman general Germanicus, nephew of the Emperor Tiberius, ArminiusвЂІ influence waned and he was assassinated on the orders of rival Germanic chiefs. Modern historians have regarded Arminius's victory as 'Rome's greatest defeat' and one of the most decisive battles in history. The defeat would precipitate the Roman Empire's permanent strategic withdrawal from Magna Germania, and the Romans were to make no more concerted attempts to conquer and hold Germania beyond the Rhine river.

An auxiliary lieutenant to the Roman general Publius Quinctilius Varus, Arminius used his knowledge of Roman tactics to lead an allied coalition of Germanic tribes to a decisive victory against three Roman legions and their auxiliaries in the historic Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, in 9 AD. Arminius (German: Hermann 18/17 BC вЂ“ AD 19) was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe and a former officer in the Roman military.

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