The Spartans witnessed some terrible debacles on the battlefield, too as any great army that celebrated big victories.
During the battle of Tegyra that played away in 375 B.C., between Sparta and their Greek city-state rival Thebes, the Spartan troops numbering at least one thousand males had been apparently battered by a little troop of simply 300 guys, referred to as Sacred Band of Thebes.
The clash unfolded near a shrine of Apollo in your community, where in fact the Sacred Band had been led by its then-leader Pelopidas. The thinly numbered males were interestingly met by the much larger Spartan unit, and at very very first, the problem looked hopeless.