50.000 barbars vs 80.000 Romans and barbars win ,becouse they will attack and run ,and romans follow and fall into ambush .
Arminius’s guerilla war against the Romans, defeating 3 Legions near the Teutoburger Forest, close Bielefeld and Osnabrück and this way effectively stopping firther Roman expansion northwards. This has big consequences up to today, e.g. in Germany the distribution of Protestants and Roman-Catholics follows roughly the outline of the Roman empire and is still a political factor.
Jan
I’ve been to the battle site of teutoberger-wald walther, used to live in Osnabruck, have they excavated much more (since 1994) ?
I don’t want to start an argument about this, but the Argentine Marine Special Forces did a really good job the days April 1st and 2nd, in 1982.
Argentine forces recover the sovereignty with an anphibuous action, and having death in their lines, but no one of the 80 Royal Marines who defended the capital, Stanley (now Argentine Port) was injured.
The Stanley garrison was more like thirty men and no one was hurt because they had left for work and no one was home when the grenades were thrown through the windows. Blowing up empty bunks is hardly a good manouver, given the arrse kicking that ensued the whole opperation was a bit ill concieved.
The Duke of Wellington at Waterloo.
Ordering the Infantry to fall back behind a ridge, which drew the French cavalry into a charge. When they cleared the ridge, they were committed to the charge, but instead of finding routed infantry, they line had reformed as squares, allowing the French cavalry to be destroyed. It didn’t win the battle (still needed the Prussians to turn up), but it did remove a number of strong cards from Napoleon’s hands.
The greatest military manoeuvre has without doubt got to be laying an AndyMcNab after three weeks on compo when on a shovel recce in three Romeo.