Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . , the Arminius of the ^, the son c Cherus- ^ or 17. 1 as a ,in- ?i.^ su- Catti, luntrj^, ?nie intol- ?•^rnor in ^ :,>liness; crce tribes of the wilds. rv resource. He ithcr tribes that lived oke out into insurrec- ?ig them to subjection, ? into the interior. i body of cavalry, :\omans were thus nselves all at 1 by Her. HERMANN 41 mann himself. The Romans fought desperately ; but being unacquainted withthe localities, and unable to form th
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . , the Arminius of the ^, the son c Cherus- ^ or 17. 1 as a ,in- ?i.^ su- Catti, luntrj^, ?nie intol- ?•^rnor in ^ :,>liness; crce tribes of the wilds. rv resource. He ithcr tribes that lived oke out into insurrec- ?ig them to subjection, ? into the interior. i body of cavalry, :\omans were thus nselves all at 1 by Her. HERMANN 41 mann himself. The Romans fought desperately ; but being unacquainted withthe localities, and unable to form their ranks owing to the thickness of the forestsand the marshy nature of the ground, they were defeated after a three days battle,by the Germans, who destroyed them in detail. At last. Varus, being woundedand seeing no chance of escape, fell upon his sword, and the other chief officersfollowed his example. The legions were entirely destroyed, and the cavalry alone cut their waythrough the enemy and regained the banks of the Rhine. By this defeat theRomans lost all their conquests beyond that river; and although Germanicussome years after again carried their arms to the Weser, they never establishedanything like a solid dominion over those regions. The defeat of Varus occurred,according to various chronologists, in the year 763 of Rome ( 9). The sceneof the defeat is conjectured to have been in the country of the Bructeri, near the Ems and the Lippe.
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