Trajan and the Dacians

Decabalus had been waiting for years for the romans to invade, and was eager to test out his new defensive network. The first phase of the war went well for the dacians in that it resulted in something of a stale mate. In the spring of one o two, trajan was termined to press all the way to the dacian capital and remind decebulus that he was no equal of the roman empire. But after the previous winter's folly,. tecebulus decided to take the wind out of trajan's invasion by offering his surrender.