Vlad the Impaler:

I have killed peasant men and women, old and young... We killed 23,884 Turks.

— Vlad the Impaler Contemporary

Dracula inspiration, brutal ruler

Report to Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, detailing his military actions against the Ottomans.

1462

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