THE CIMBRI

The Cimbri were a Germanic tribe who originally started out in today's Denmark. They then shuffled south, teamed up with the Teutones, or Teutoni, and fought the Romans. And it went down like this:
 

113-101 BC - The great and terrible war of the Cimbri and Teutones
against Rome.

The Battle of Arausio, fought on October 6, 105 BC, was a Roman defeat. The event took place near Arausio, which is todays' Orange in southern France.

The Cimbri and the Teutones were nations of northern warriors which slaughtered several Roman armies in Gaul, and in 102 BC attempted to penetrate into Italy,

The military genius of Marius here saves his country; he defeats the Teutones near Aix, in Provence; and in the following year he destroys the army of the Cimbri, who had passed the Alps, near Vercellae.