Roman battle tactics were legendary for their precision, effectiveness, and adaptability. In this video, we delve deep into the strategies and techniques that made the Roman legions one of the ...

In A.D. 9 three crack legions (some 15,000 soldiers) led by general Varus were ambushed and annihilated by barbarian soldiers in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the years that followed several attempts were made to capture or kill the German mastermind, ...

Though Israel was defeated in its battle against the legions of Rome, it was a magnificent and inspiring defeat, a defeat which ultimately destroyed the Roman Empire.

1. Who they served Roman legions in the first century B.C. were generally loyal to a political leader, who also led the legion in battle as the commanding general.

Wells, who is a professor of archaeology at the University of Minnesota and an expert on European archeology of pre-Roman and Roman times, gives the story in clear and engrossing detail.

When Tiberius became emperor, he commissioned Germanicus to reestablish Roman influence east of the Rhine River after the Germanic tribes defeated the Roman legions in the Battle of the Teutoburg ...