I have killed peasants, men and women, old and young... We killed 23,884 Turks without counting those whom we burned in homes or the Turks whose heads were cut by our soldiers.
— Vlad the Impaler Contemporary

Dracula inspiration, brutal ruler

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Letter to Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary

Date / Period

1462

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vlad-the-Impaler

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