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Nero Claudius Drusus (38.- 9 B.C.) Commonly called Drusus Senior, the stepson of Augustus and younger brother of Tiberius. Drusus built the canal joining the Rhine with the German Ocean and two bridges over the Rhine. He subjegated the Usipetes, the Cherusci, and the Suevi in 11 B.C. In the following year the Chatti and the Nervii fell.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 216.
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