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Arminius

or HERMANN, who by his intrepidity and success acquired the title of "the Deliverer of Germany," was son of Segimer, a chief of Cherusci. Having been sent to Rome as a hostage, he was there educated, served in the Roman army and for his valor was raised to citizenship and knighted. But his attachment to his native country induced him to revolt and he became one ARMINIUS of the most powerful leaders of the dis- contented German nations. He drew Varus, the Roman commander on the Rhine, into that ambuscade in which he and nearly all his troops were slain, after having for years withstood the vast power of Rome, Arminius was assassinated by one of his own countrymen, in the 37th year of his age, A. D. 19.

OSTEND DUNKIRK STOMER B BRUGES E YPRES Ο LYS RIV. GHENT Ο LILLE DOUA ARRAS م COURTRAI SCHELDT ARMOR tween two countries, the latter, limited to particular places, as between two armies or between a besieged fortress respective troops. See WORLD WAR. all such contrivances as served to defend ARMOR, a word formerly applied to rily requires ratification, but the latter is in the power of the commanders of ther

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