[\#TodayInHistory](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TodayInHistory?src=hashtag_click) The night attack at Targoviste is fought in 1462 between the forces of Vlad the Impaler and Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, during the Wallachia-Ottoman conflict. The attack was carried out by Vlad’s forces, to assasinate Mehmed during the night.
Vlad the Impaler had refused to pay the Jizya tax to the Ottoman Sultan, and attacked Bulgaria, impaling over 23,000 Turks. Mehmed raised a huge army to capture Wallachia and make it a part of the Ottoman empire. Disguised as Turk, he roamed around the Turkish camp on June 17, and finding the Sultan’s location, decided to attack at night. While the Sultan escaped the assasination attempt, around 23,000 Turks were killed and impaled by Vlad and his troops.
Vlad in fact implemented many tactics used in modern day warfare- a scorched earth policy to deny the Turks any advantage, making em suffer from lack of food and water. Repeated guerilla hit and run tactics that demoralized the Turks.
His conflicts with the Ottomans has been a part of popular culture. Francis Ford Coppola’s version of Dracula in 1992, begins with a narration of this event, and showing Vlad impaling the Turks.
While it’s believed that Vlad the Impaler was an inspiration for Dracula, Bram Stoker denied it saying he had not much knowledge of Wallachian history. However the name does come from Vlad’s father Vlad Dracul, and his reputation for cruelty and bloodthirsty nature.
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Mahomed 2, he was the conqueror of Constantinople in 1453, he even called himself Caesar of the last Roman empire, obviously the title was not accepted by the pope, but I think Vlad was planning to retire Muhammad.
This post is super shortened out, you missed the best parts 🙁
Imagine being so close to kill the sultan of Ottoman Empire, and failing because you entered the wrong tent lmao.
Eh, close enough.
Vlad didn’t infiltrate the Ottoman camp, he infiltrated the garrison in Giurgiu. Chalkokondyles, a Greek Byzantine chronicler, claims that he did so. Vlad actually knew very well how Turks set their camp, he was an officer in the army. The Ottomans killed during the battle were not impaled, as Vlad retreated and continued to harass the Ottoman army after the battle. That was a different Ottoman raiding group, or maybe those captured from Bulgaria.
[https://youtu.be/9RoBspQiOiE?t=167](https://youtu.be/9RoBspQiOiE?t=167)
Bravo lui. Orice ar fi făcut.