The Betrayal in the Black Woods: Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9 AD) This is the ambush that stopped an empire in its tracks. In 9 AD, the Roman General Publius Quinctilius Varus was marching three full legions (the 17th, 18th, and 19th) through the dense forests of Germania. He wasn't expecting war; he thought he was on a routine administrative patrol to tax the locals. He trusted his advisor, Arminius, a Germanic prince who had been raised in Rome as a hostage, achieved Roman citizenship, an

Breathing in the weekend with a gorgeous autumnal walk around Tandle Hill