All out for 123, the tea interval not even reached, and defeat by an innings and 80 – albeit their first innings defeat since November 2008 during which time, they may point out, England have three times lost similarly.
That could have been doubled and defeated by a trick, but North had reason to persevere in spades.
Studies in rats have shown that social defeat stress, in which experimental animals are attacked and defeated by a dominant conspecific, is followed by an acute increase in NREM sleep EEG slow wave activity (SWA).
They were then put to the Sri Lankan people in an election -- and defeated by a landslide.
An institution that was embedded into human culture, endorsed by the Bible, promoted by the Qur'an, pervasive in society, and embedded in the global economy was taken on and defeated by a movement started by a tiny number of people.
The invading force was met and defeated by an army from Wessex and Mercia led by King Æthelstan at the Battle of Brunanburh.
That night, as the transports unloaded, the Allied warships screening the transports were surprised and defeated by an Imperial fleet of seven cruisers and one destroyer, commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa.
And a defeat by a team in a division below them in this third-round tie has put further pressure on Forest manager Stuart Pearce.
England were outplayed in all three departments and defeated by 45 runs, a huge margin in this form of the game.
Ominously, however, the Union movements left parts of Rosecrans's army widely separated and vulnerable to defeat by a larger, massed Confederate force.
