TV Tonight 9PM. Lost Legions

[Kev]

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.

[Pon]

Varus, Varus...Give me back my legions!  Tis a great story, Il look forward to watching this.

[daimole]

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  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

[Pon]

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.