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One is to show how the romans reacted to the disaster both at the officialpolitical level and at the officers’ and soldiers’ level

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At the political level varus the roman governor and general who commanded the threelegion army destroyed in the socalled teutoberg disaster was made into a scapegoat

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Here again ben kane follows closely the sources showing that the soldiers’ pay was months in arrears and that they had been illtreated to put it very mildly by their officers some of which were not only brutes and bullies but possibly also sadistic

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However this time it happened in a context of low morale defeat fear and anger after the legions had to destroy and pull back from all of the forts and fortresses that they had spent years and many lives in conquering and building and after they had evacuated and destroyed the roman cities that had been under construction in what should have become the new province of magna germania

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As far as i can tell just about all of the events described during the mutiny are historical although of course centurion tullius did not play such a prominent role since he is a fictional character

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The roman did indeed lose all of its baggage during the first attack and as you will see when reading about it it could have been much worse

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The roman victory was a lucky one because the romans were running out of food trapped in their camp and would have been quite unable to cross the socalled “wooden bridges” and the associated marshes without being cut to pieces in what could have been a remake of teutoburg

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The character of arminius is largely fictional simply because we know next to nothing about him