"The Roman Army's Darkest Days" Topic
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Tango01  | 25 Oct 2021 9:03 p.m. PST |
"Augustus was so alarmed that for several consecutive months he did not cut his beard or hair, and sometimes he bashed his head in the corridors, crying out, ‘Quinctilius Varus – bring the legions back!' Augustus reacts to the catastrophic news that three legions under the command of Varus had been wiped out by the Germans. The Second Punic War nearly saw Hannibal and his Carthaginians wipe out the Roman forces. The legendary defeats at Trasimene (217 BC) and Cannae (216 BC) haunted Roman memory. But they were not the only times Rome came near to complete destruction at the hands of an enemy on the battlefield…"
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