Vlad the Impaler Raids Wallachia
1462
The Wallachian voivode, educated as an Ottoman hostage, conducted a night attack on Mehmed II's invasion camp and nearly killed the sultan. When the Turks reached his capital at Targoviste they found a forest of twenty thousand impaled corpses. Vlad retreated to Hungary, where Matthias Corvinus had him quietly imprisoned.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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