Vlad the Impaler's Night Attack: He Tries to Assassinate the Sultan
Vlad III rode straight into the Ottoman camp with 7,000 men at night, hunting one specific person: Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople. He got close. Not close enough. The sultan survived because his grand viziers Mahmud Pasha and Isaac Pasha were sleeping in tents that looked like the royal one. Mehmed retreated at dawn, shaken, but didn't leave Wallachia for good. He simply installed a replacement ruler — Vlad's own brother, Radu. Family finished what armies couldn't.
June 17, 1462
564 years ago
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Wallachia
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Mehmed II
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Vlad III the Impaler
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The Night Attack
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Wallachia
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Assassination
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Mehmed II
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Vlad the Impaler
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Night attack at Târgoviște
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Principado de Valaquia
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Târgoviște
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