What Is Vlad The Impaler's Cruelty
• As Vlad grew older he became more and more brutal, thus gaining the name “Vlad The Impaler”
• Both Ray Porter and Dr. Elizabeth Miller, author of “A Dracula Handbook,” tell anecdotal stories of Vlad’s cruelty, describing how he allegedly had the Turbans ambassadors nailed to their head after they refused to take them off, and how he impaled a nobleman who complained of the smell of dead bodies on a high stake so that he would be above the smell.
• As Julia White said “Pope Gregory XII actually appreciating Vlad III’s initiative to defending Christianity by going against the Ottoman Turks. Even though Vlad III had cruel methods of Psychological Warfare and punishments for Prisoners of War as well as his own citizens.”
• According to Time …show more content…
He gathered his army—probably consisting of 60,000 soldiers and 20,000 auxiliaries, though historians have estimated the number as high as 300,000—at the Danube River in the spring of 1462 and prepared to invade Wallachia.Vlad’s outnumbered army engaged in battle around the Danube, then launched a strategic retreat to the capital of Targoviste. Vlad employed a scorched-earth policy, ordering food stores to be burned and wells to be poisoned. His men launched guerilla attacks on Mehmed’s tired, hungry army as they advanced to Targoviste. On the night of June 17, as Mehmed was camped south of Targoviste, Vlad decided to strike. Between 7,000 and 10,000 of his soldiers attacked the Turkish camp, intending to assassinate Mehmed. Though they could not kill the Sultan, the “Night Attack” inflicted further damage on his army.Mehmed decided to continue his army’s advance to Targoviste. When they arrived, they were greeted with a gruesome sight. Vlad, as a psychological warfare tactic, had ordered the impalement of the 20,000 mostly Turkish prisoners outside the capital.” as stated by …show more content…
Reportedly, his first wife committed suicide by leaping from the towers of Vlad the Impaler's castle into the waters of the Arges River rather than surrender to the Turks. The river was afterwards known as the "Princess River". This deeply affected him because he did love her. Vlad the Impaler escaped across the mountains into Transylvania and appealed to Matthias Corvinus for aid. Instead the Hungarian King had him arrested and imprisoned in a royal tower near Buda. Vlad the Impaler remained a prisoner for twelve years. During those 12 years his brother Radu took of the kingdom and was used as a Pawn for the Ottoman Empire” as stated by Rebecca
• Both Ray Porter and Dr. Elizabeth Miller, author of “A Dracula Handbook,” tell anecdotal stories of Vlad’s cruelty, describing how he allegedly had the Turbans ambassadors nailed to their head after they refused to take them off, and how he impaled a nobleman who complained of the smell of dead bodies on a high stake so that he would be above the smell.
• As Julia White said “Pope Gregory XII actually appreciating Vlad III’s initiative to defending Christianity by going against the Ottoman Turks. Even though Vlad III had cruel methods of Psychological Warfare and punishments for Prisoners of War as well as his own citizens.”
• According to Time …show more content…
He gathered his army—probably consisting of 60,000 soldiers and 20,000 auxiliaries, though historians have estimated the number as high as 300,000—at the Danube River in the spring of 1462 and prepared to invade Wallachia.Vlad’s outnumbered army engaged in battle around the Danube, then launched a strategic retreat to the capital of Targoviste. Vlad employed a scorched-earth policy, ordering food stores to be burned and wells to be poisoned. His men launched guerilla attacks on Mehmed’s tired, hungry army as they advanced to Targoviste. On the night of June 17, as Mehmed was camped south of Targoviste, Vlad decided to strike. Between 7,000 and 10,000 of his soldiers attacked the Turkish camp, intending to assassinate Mehmed. Though they could not kill the Sultan, the “Night Attack” inflicted further damage on his army.Mehmed decided to continue his army’s advance to Targoviste. When they arrived, they were greeted with a gruesome sight. Vlad, as a psychological warfare tactic, had ordered the impalement of the 20,000 mostly Turkish prisoners outside the capital.” as stated by …show more content…
Reportedly, his first wife committed suicide by leaping from the towers of Vlad the Impaler's castle into the waters of the Arges River rather than surrender to the Turks. The river was afterwards known as the "Princess River". This deeply affected him because he did love her. Vlad the Impaler escaped across the mountains into Transylvania and appealed to Matthias Corvinus for aid. Instead the Hungarian King had him arrested and imprisoned in a royal tower near Buda. Vlad the Impaler remained a prisoner for twelve years. During those 12 years his brother Radu took of the kingdom and was used as a Pawn for the Ottoman Empire” as stated by Rebecca