The Battle of Teutoburg Forest 9 AD: When Trees Start Speaking Germanic 

And the wall with skeletons of the dead soldiers was discovered recently in Germany

And later on there was a genocidal revenge campaign. So the Germanic tribes lost far more than the Romans in balance.

@@NR-rv8rz The Romans never again attempted to subjugate Germania, so I'd say the Germans got what they wanted regardless.

what you wanted to say is: Romans were much worse war criminals than Germanians, but you somehow expressed it in a very cringy way@@NR-rv8rz

​@@zurgesmiecalsaying somebody from antiquity "war criminals" is the only cringey thing here.

Descended from Romulus would mean descended from Mars, which he clearly was not.

⁠@@kevin6293 "claimed" descent, this kind of thing was common in ages gone by - the pre-norman kings of england claimed descent from woden himself

@@barnsleyman32 and Caesar descended from Venus.

Romans usually turned their enemies into straight up offal so they were probably pretty chill about the whole thing.

I think this video definitely underplays the tactics of the germanic warriors - it was quite a trap that was set up, and not just a horde that won through sheer numbers.

That's honestly the best way to describe this battle which says a lot when you think of all the bloodbaths there have been in ancient Roman times.

Carrhae and Cannae: no it's not

The battle of Carrhae has to be the worst, Crassus had like 50,000 men and lost to 10,000 Archers, I don't get if you're that rich and powerful, why cant you afford hundreds of scouts.

@@jason4275 they lost a lot more in Cannae

​@@GeorgeEstregan828 they didn't say Teutoburg forest was the worst battle, but 1 of the worst.

Oh, looks like this feature works. Thanks buddy!

famous last words

it wasn't unknown territory, it was well known to the Romans as they had occupied it for decades. Going forward was a shorter and better option than going back.

yeah like wtf. we just got ambushed, hope if i go down this darker alley it will be alright.

@@watch-Dominion-2018 It was shorter but I really never understood the thinking being that is was far less well known than the main road. It always felt like Roman arrogance and the belief the "savages", even Roman raised would never be able to set up a real ambush.

@@ikbennl read above ^

But Romans couldn’t conquer Germania

It wasn't enough. Rome had gotten soft. Had Rome, in the aftermath, gone all "Julius Ceasar-like" on the Germanians, killing a million of them, and enslaving million more (a quote from Julius Ceasar's conquest of Gaul), the world would have been a very very different place. Would there have been anyone left to cross the Rhine in 406 A.D.?

Basically Arminus hard work went to waste.

@@MustafaAli-lb8dq Well Germania was never conquered by Rome, because it was doomed to difficult in the aftermath of the battle and Germanicus campaign. He failed in unifying the germanic tribes but he still upheld their independency from Rome.

What a moronic drivel. Tiberius did nothing and was still praised to the skies only for propaganda. No battles, no torched villages, nothing at all. There is no evidence for the apparently suppressed mutiny by Germanicus, nor that he apparently destroyed everything within a 75 km radius. Germanicus won exactly one battle against the Marsians, against a single tribe. Although he was able to take prisoner Tusnelda, he got his ass kicked by the Teutons in all further battles and had massive losses. And what always happens when battles are lost, which could also be seen in the 3rd Reich, the army leaders and generals are showered with medals and awards and praised beyond all measure. And then they are praised away and transferred. Except for a few ridiculous recovered legionary eagles, he accomplished nothing. Finally, all efforts on the right bank of the Rhine were abandoned because the losses were too high and no progress was made. In the dumbest case, Germanicus bought the eagles and did not even get them back by conquering them. Roman reports are one thing above all. Propaganda and pure Bullshit. Normally, the winner writes the history. Unfortunately, the Teutons carved their runes only in beech wood, which has not survived 2 millennia.

The og Raate road.

A tear of happiness comes to my eye every time

Just make sure to send non-German tour guides ahead first.

Where are you from?

​@@yosoyturco4548 Sunday roast is a British tradition

@@yosoyturco4548London, England

I really wanted to belt that line out with gusto but Baz was like, nah keep it chill

I don't know why he made such a big deal out of it, 3 legions is only 15,000 soldiers. The roman empire at the time could regenerate such a force in a very short period of time. Weren't there like 40 legions across the whole empire ?

​@@ahmedibrahim9082 It wasn't that simple Take the Illyrian rebellion as an example The romans had to mobilize 6 out of the 9 legions to crush the rebellion. This left an opening for Arminius to destroy the tree remaining legions. This would be a constant source of problems down the line The empire simply didn't have enough troops to manage the several thousands of kilometers between the Rhine and Danube rivers. Furthermore it wasn't simply the destruction of the legions It was also twenty years of pacification and attempted assimilation, urbanisation that went down the window.

Rock: "Nein!"

Zeus thunderbolts!

Probably not much better :( Julius Caesar was a genius who valued patience and information-gathering to a degree non of his contemporaries could match, but Arminius had a 10-year head start on developing a battle-plan.

What was left of the Roman cavalry abandoned the main force when it was clear they were all gonna die and fled towards the Rhine but the lighter germanic horsemen overtook and killed them all. In addition to that, many Romans also broke ranks and tried to flee to safety but were hunted down.

Not quite as this was typical Roman practice at the time.

@@karelzjinec Typical but not wise.

@@TheStrategos392 I disagree. Administrator back then wasn't some no name accountant we know in the present. War and military command was part of their job description

@@karelzjinec Well in this particular instance it had disastrous results. There were many situations where in the Roman Empire where you could be a capable general and an administrator, but historians have stated that Varus was not a soldier. His background was politics and administration. He also ruled Germania with a heavy hand which made him hated by the locals, which is why the battle of the Teutoborg ended up taking place.

Not necessarily so. Varus although considered a civil administrator, is also a capable general and had experience in pacifying newly Romanized territories. His failure to gather sufficient intelligence before going in an operation is a blunder that is also shared by many generals throughout history. Even Napoleon had his share Intelligence failures.