In 1578, Moroccan troops defeated a Portuguese army on Moroccan soil. Accounts written by Portuguese contemporaries report the defeat but omit mention of the fact that King Sebastian of Portugal was killed in the battle. Sebastian’s death is not even mentioned in the battle accounts written by two captured Portuguese officers while waiting to be ransomed from a Moroccan prison. These two officers actually shared their cells with the Portuguese soldiers who identified the king’s body to Moroccan officials. The omissions, thus, had to have had a psychological cause: the Portuguese evidently found Sebastian’s death so humiliating that they could not bring themselves to write about it.

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