Events Tagged: "humiliation"

Disaster at Caudine Forks - Roman army trapped in defile, forced to pass under yoke in humiliation, worst defeat yet

Valerian captured at Edessa - used as footstool by Shapur I, skinned after death

Valerian dies in captivity - used as footstool by Shapur, body stuffed and displayed

Henry II does penance at Becket's tomb - walks barefoot through Canterbury, scourged by monks, revolt collapses immediately after

Battle of Radcot Bridge - Lords Appellant defeat royalist forces, Richard II humiliated