THE BATTLE OF IDISTAVISO 16 AD: Germanicus’ Punishment Campaign Against Arminius’ Germanic Coalition скачать в хорошем качестве

THE BATTLE OF IDISTAVISO 16 AD: Germanicus’ Punishment Campaign Against Arminius’ Germanic Coalition

In the spring of sixteen AD, Germanicus Julius Caesar—thirty-one years old, nephew of the Emperor Tiberius, and son of a general who'd died fighting in these same German forests—commanded eight Roman legions and a fleet of one thousand ships with a single purpose: hunt down the man who'd humiliated Rome seven years earlier. By summer's end, according to both Roman and Germanic sources, the most devastating military reversal in tribal Germanic history would be documented across ten miles of blood-soaked ground. Contemporary chronicles record the impossible mathematics: sixty thousand Roman soldiers against a Germanic tribal coalition estimated between fifty thousand and eighty thousand warriors. But this wasn't about numbers. This was about vengeance for twenty thousand Roman dead, three lost eagle standards that embodied Rome's sacred spirit, and seven years of humiliation that had shaken the empire to its foundations. By the end of this video, you'll understand how documented historical sources reveal the greatest tactical victories in Roman military history—and why total battlefield dominance resulted in permanent strategic retreat. Source Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...