The Night Attack at Târgoviște

Luke Ball
8 min readJul 7, 2022

Vlad the Impaler’s famous night attack against the Ottoman Empire on 17 June 1462.

Trigger Warning: this post includes graphic descriptions of impalement.

Alrighty then. Shall we?

This caterpillar-sporting chap is Vlad Țepeș, one of the mosts controversial figures in world history. He’s also known as Vlad III, Vlad Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler. We’ll just call him Vlad.

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