Gruesome
yet fascinating . . .
June 17, 1462:
The Battle of the Blood Drinkers
Like
flaming demons, Wallachians rushed out of the night and into the Turkish camp, striking terror
in an army of terrorists. Leading the charge was a gore-spattered
chieftain—hewing and hacking a path to the central tents where the Sultan
huddled in fear. On he came, Vlad Dracul, raining down slaughter and raging for
Mehmed’s blood.
On June
17, 1462, outside Targoviste, Romania, the world was given a rare instance of
how the good can be accomplished though the grotesque—for God can deploy His
enemies as allies. Vlad Dracul III, Prince of Wallachia, can hardly be
considered a warrior of faith; but he was certainly a warrior for the Faith.
When
Constantinople fell in 1453, 21 year-old Sultan Mehmed II boasted that finally
Trojans were given vengeance over Greeks, and that he should be known as the
Caesar of the Caliphs. He was more widely known, however, as the Blood Drinker.
Mehmed enjoyed torture and execution for its own sake, making him a terrifying
conqueror whose ambition was bent on the Christian West.
Mehmed
launched his conquest of Eastern Europe, but was repelled at the Siege of
Belgrade by John Hunyadi of Hungary in 1456. The retreating Ottomans regarded
Wallachia (present day southern Romania) as a buffer between them and Hungary,
and so, for a yearly jizyah (tax for non-Muslims), they left Wallachia
alone—though both Hungary and the Turks vied to make Wallachia their vassal.
At that
time Vlad III, a savage and sadistic prince of the Dragon Order, ruled in
Romania. Vlad, like Mehmed, was also known for the pleasure he took in
murdering people through excruciating procedures. Impaling was his trademark
method, and it is said that in his lifetime Vlad the Impaler impaled in the
tens of thousands. . .
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