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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
In Our Time
The Germanic Tribe's Struggle to Regroup
There's reference to an encampment, so it looks like they did try to regroup. But gradually they were being forced up into this area where they had to move between a hill on one side and marsh land on another. And there is no reference in the literary sources, but the archaeological evidence shows us a rampart as well. So we're looking at quite a long terrain, and we have to imagine these people fighting their way through day after day. The Germanic tribe was just popping in and out of those lines. There's not much even a crack fighting force can do when they've been harried for three days.
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