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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
In Our Time
The Battle of Rome
You can see that it just took away the natural advantage of these trained Roman soldiers, which is their defensive armour and their capacity to work together in composite compact masses. But if you lure them into these forests and into the swamps, that all ceases to be the advantage. And then you can start taking them off a few at a time. The disadvantage of a very heavily drilled discipline fighting force is it doesn't need someone to tell it what to do. There's a cavalry leader called Nemenia Svar who just runs away, which is a sign of complete breakdown of the stringer, the train of command. No one's telling them the right face or whatever it might be.
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