Vlad the Impaler:

I have ordered that all who are able to bear arms, from the greatest to the least, be gathered together, and that they be armed and equipped for war.

— Vlad the Impaler Contemporary

Dracula inspiration, brutal ruler

Letter to the citizens of Brasov

1459

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