Rhine, Britain, Danube

Domitian’s three fronts: the Chatti across the Rhine, Agricola in Britain, the Dacians on the Danube and the revolt at Mogontiacum. Routes on the maps are approximate.

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AD eighty-three. Domitian leads an army across the Rhine against the Chatti. He returns with the title Germanicus.

Across the sea, in Britain, Agricola marches north with his legions.

He wins a great battle below a mountain whose location we no longer know. Soon the emperor recalls him.

And on the Danube the Dacians cross the river and kill the governor of Moesia.

Now Decebalus rules them. The emperor sends the praetorian prefect, Cornelius Fuscus, against him.

Fuscus marches into Dacia and is killed, and his army is destroyed.

In AD eighty-eight the Romans finally win, at Tapae.

Early in AD eighty-nine the governor of Upper Germany rebels at Mogontiacum.

He summons Germans from across the Rhine.

On battle day the river ice breaks and no one can cross. The revolt fails.

But Decebalus still has not disarmed.