The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (, Hermannsschlacht or Varusschlacht), described as clades Variana (the Varian disaster) by Roman historians, took place in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius of the Cherusci ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. Despite several successful campaigns and raids by the Roman army in the years after the battle, they never again attempted to conquer Germania territory east of the Rhine River.
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| - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (, Hermannsschlacht or Varusschlacht), described as clades Variana (the Varian disaster) by Roman historians, took place in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius of the Cherusci ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. Despite several successful campaigns and raids by the Roman army in the years after the battle, they never again attempted to conquer Germania territory east of the Rhine River.
- The battle began a seven-year war which established 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 made no further concerted attempts to conquer Germania beyond the Rhine after the war was over.
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- 6(xsd:integer)
- 10000(xsd:integer)
- 20000(xsd:integer)
- Unknown, but estimates range from 12,000–32,000.
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| Date
| - September, CE 9. Exact date unknowable.
- circa September, 9 C.E.
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| - Reconstructed inscription: "To Marcus Caelius, son of Titus, of the Lemonian district, from Bologna, first centurion of the eighteenth legion. 53½ years old. He fell in the Varian War. His bones may be interred here. Publius Caelius, son of Titus, of the Lemonian district, his brother, erected ."
- Cenotaph of Marcus Caelius, 1st centurion of XVIII, who "fell in the war of Varus" .
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| Casualties
| - 500(xsd:integer)
- 1500(xsd:integer)
- 16000(xsd:integer)
- 20000(xsd:integer)
- Unknown.
- Some others enslaved.
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| Result
| - Roman Empire's strategic withdrawal from Magna Germania
- Decisive Germanic victory
- Decisive Germanic victory.
- Roman Empire's strategic withdrawal from Magna Germania.
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| Place
| - Osnabrück County, Lower Saxony
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| Conflict
| - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
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| - Battle of the Teutoburg Wald
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| - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (, Hermannsschlacht or Varusschlacht), described as clades Variana (the Varian disaster) by Roman historians, took place in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius of the Cherusci ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. Despite several successful campaigns and raids by the Roman army in the years after the battle, they never again attempted to conquer Germania territory east of the Rhine River.
- The battle began a seven-year war which established 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 made no further concerted attempts to conquer Germania beyond the Rhine after the war was over.
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