"Cestius Gallus" Topic
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| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 24 Oct 2009 6:03 a.m. PST |
So, following his retreat from Jerusalem in AD 66, Gallus loses nearly 6,000 men (equivalent to a full-strength legion) & an Eagle. Would it be accurate to describe this as the worst defeat since Varus, or is there an earlier, worse debacle I have missed? |
aecurtis  | 24 Oct 2009 9:01 a.m. PST |
Classic example of "it's easier to get into Injun country than it is to get out". Allen |
| Lee Brilleaux | 24 Oct 2009 9:13 a.m. PST |
Caligula's campaign against the sea-shells might have ended very badly had he not been a god. It always helps to be a god. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 24 Oct 2009 9:24 a.m. PST |
But in terms of body-count in a defeat? |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 24 Oct 2009 9:25 a.m. PST |
Josephus says 5780, obviously these included Client kings' troops as well |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 24 Oct 2009 10:36 a.m. PST |
also- Am I the only person looking at Adam Hook's reconstruction drawing of Gamla (In Rocca's Judaean Forts OSPREY) & thinking it doesn't match Josephus' description of tightly packed houses that impeded the Roman assault & then destroyed it as houses dominoed down the hill? |
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