> [The battle of Teutoburg Forest] was used again and again to forge German identity Interestingly, the defeat of Vercingetorix was also used as a mean of forg

> [The battle of Teutoburg Forest] was used again and again to forge German identity Interestingly, the defeat of Vercingetorix was also used as a mean of forging the French identity, so even a defeat can be used this way (though if Caesar had failed to invade Gaul, history might have been quite different too). Also in regard of using Teutoburg to build a national identity, the series on the Fremen Mirage [0] on the same blog talk about that idea too. [0] https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civilization/ https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...