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Title: TV Tonight 9PM. Lost Legions Post by: Kev on August 22, 2013, 01:30:20 PM Yesterday channel 537 tonight 9 PM
THE LOST LEGIONS It's 9 A.D. Three Roman Legions are ambushed and wiped out in a remote German forest during a massive thunderstorm. The severed head of Roman General Varus is sent back to Rome in a box and the Empire never advances into Germania again. The battle helps create the boundary between Latin and Germanic cultures which still exists to this day. Title: Re: TV Tonight 9PM. Lost Legions Post by: Pon on August 22, 2013, 03:50:25 PM Varus, Varus...Give me back my legions! Tis a great story, Il look forward to watching this. :)
Title: Re: TV Tonight 9PM. Lost Legions Post by: daimole on August 22, 2013, 08:05:42 PM Very interesting piece of history!! the battle site was discovered by a british colonel if I remember correctly his surname was Clunn he was using a fisher 1265x either in the late seventies or early eighties he made many amazing finds including military fittings siver coins and a gold death mask :o the site is known by the name Teutsbergerwald wald being germanic for wood the opening scene of the film Gladiator is based on this battle ;)
Title: Re: TV Tonight 9PM. Lost Legions Post by: Pon on August 22, 2013, 09:11:11 PM Here you go Kev..or anyone else for that matter. This book is probably the best account of the battle etc, well worth a read on one of those rainy nights in.
Adrian Murdoch, Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest. Sutton Publishing. :) one for the book shelf without a doubt. |