Arminius caused them a lot of trouble. It was not only the battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where he and his men (a number of them former Roman auxiliaries) annihilated three legions. Arminius also held up against Germanicus' retribution wars in AD 14-16 in a way that Tiberius, then enperor, finallly called the whole campaign off. Which is why we speak German today, not French. :)
There were two pitched battles in that campaign, and whatever the Romans tried to make both look like stunning victories, the second at least was not. So Arminius could even hold the field against a Roman army, not only ambush marching columns successfully.
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Date: 2011-04-25 01:30 pm (UTC)There were two pitched battles in that campaign, and whatever the Romans tried to make both look like stunning victories, the second at least was not. So Arminius could even hold the field against a Roman army, not only ambush marching columns successfully.