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Battle of the Angrivarian Wall
Part of the Early Imperial campaigns in Germania
Date
16 AD
Location
Near Porta Westfalica, Germany
Result
Roman victory[1][2]
Belligerents
Roman Empire
Anti-Roman Germanic tribes
Commanders and leaders
Germanicus
Arminius
Strength
8 legions Gallic and Germanic auxiliaries 2 Praetorian cohorts For a total of 50,000–55,000 men [3]
Unknown
Casualties and losses
heavy
Extremely heavy[4]
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e
Warfare between Romans and Germanic peoples
Cimbrian War (113 BC – 101 BC)
Noreia
Burdigala
Arausio
Aquae Sextiae
Vercellae
Gallic Wars (58 BC – 57 BC)
Vosges
Sabis
Clades Lolliana (16 BC)
Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16)
Arbalo
Lupia River
Teutoburg Forest
Pontes Longi
Idistaviso
Angrivarian Wall
Marcomannic Wars (166–180) (participating Roman units)
Carnuntum
Roman campaigns in Germania during the 230s
Harzhorn
Gothic invasion of the Balkans (250–251)
Nicopolis ad Istrum
Beroe
Philippopolis
Abritus
Gothic invasion of the Balkans (254)
Thessalonica
Thermopylae
Gothic invasion of the Balkans (267–268)
Naissus
Roman–Alemannic Wars
Mediolanum
Lake Benacus
Placentia
Fano
Pavia
Lingones
Vindonissa
Durocortorum
Argentoratum
Solicinium
Campi Cannini
Gothic War (367–369)
Noviodunum
Gothic War (376–382)
Marcianople
Ad Salices
Dibaltum
Adrianople
Adrianople Siege
Constantinople
Thessalonica
Visigothic Wars
Pollentia
Verona
Florence
Faesulae
Rome (410)
Massilia
1st Arelate
2nd Arelate
Narbonne
Toulouse
Châlons
3rd Arelate
Orleans
Déols
4th Arelate
Vandalic Wars
Rhine
Nervasos Mountains
Tarraco
Hippo Regius
Carthage
Rome (455)
Agrigentum
Corsica
Garigliano
Cartagena
Cape Bon
Anglo-Saxon Wars
Groans of the Britons
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain
Treason of the Long Knives
Wippedesfleot
Mercredesburne
Mons Badonicus
Dyrham
Woden's Burg
Raith
Vandalic War (533–534)
Ad Decimum
Tricamarum
Gothic War (535–554)
Panormus
Naples (536)
Rome (537–538)
Treviso
Verona
Faventia
Mucellium
Naples (542–543)
Rome (546)
Rome (549–550)
Sena Gallica
Taginae
Mons Lactarius
The Battle of the Angrivarian Wall was fought near Porta Westfalica, Germany in 16 AD between the Roman general Germanicus and an alliance of Germanic tribes commanded by Arminius. This battle followed immediately after the Battle of Idistaviso, and was supposedly sparked by Germanic outrage over the trophy erected on that prior battlefield by the Romans.[5]
It was the final battle of a three-year series of campaigns by Germanicus in Germania. According to Tacitus, the battle was a victory for the Romans. Germanicus, now in winter quarters across the Rhine, wanted to renew the conquest in the Spring, but was recalled to Rome by Tiberius, now Rome's Emperor.[6] In fact this final action led to a withdrawal of the Roman troops from territories of Germania east of the Rhine river effectively until the collapse of the Roman Empire.
^Tacitus & Barrett 2008, pp. 58–60.
^Dyck 2015, p. 154.
^Tacitus (1876). The Annals (From the Passing of the Divine Augustus), translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. 2.16 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^Tacitus & Barrett 2008, pp. 206.
^Tacitus, The Annals 2.19
^Tacitus, The Annals 2.41
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