A disaster
The year 9 A.D. marks disaster in Roman expansionist policy. Emperor Tiberius had appointed Publius Quinctilius Varus supreme commander of Germania and charged him with establishing the Province of Germania in the conquered lands between the Rhine and the Elbe rivers. But at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Varus suffered devastating defeat at the hands of his opponent, Arminius, and committed suicide. The three decimated legions were never reformed, and Rome withdrew from Germania.
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