04-26-2013, 04:41 PM
Quote:Quote:Immediate result of this defeat,certainly wasn't that romans resigned from other attempts to subdue inner Germania
It takes a while to recover military strength and recover forces after 3 entire legions are reduced to a few straggling survivors. The other legions had other areas of responsibility, and couldn't just be pulled from there to Germania.
Hang on - for that's exactly what happened. Apart from the punitive raids thereafter - using what forces were available - the 3 legions lost were not replaced for 30 years; when Caligula raised the Primigenia pair for the, indeed, planned next campaign in Germania.
The legion total didn't get back to the 28 until Nero raised I Italica.
The overall inference is that, between 9AD and the invasion of Britain in 43AD it took ~23 legions to just stand still. Thereafter it seems legions were raised specifically in order to conduct the next campaign.
So - military strength wasn't 'recovered'.
