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Cherusci
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Cherusci

A German people who occupied the Weser river basin, north of the Harz Forest. In AD 9 Arminius, a chief of the Cherusci, revolted and destroyed a Roman army commanded by Quintilius Varus. Their prestige was wrested from them towards the end of the 1st century AD by their neighbours, the Chatti, and their territory was later occupied by the Saxons.



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A combination of arrogant disdain for the Germans (whom he thought savages) (1) and bad tactics had allowed him to be surprised by a powerful army of Cheruscan javelin throwers who emerged from the apparently trackless forest and retreated again, only to launch another surprise attack, and another, and.
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