Night Attack at Târgoviște
1462 · Event
Vlad the Impaler raids Mehmed II's camp by night trying to kill the sultan; the invaders later find a 'forest' of impaled prisoners outside his capital and withdraw.
On these timelines: Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Master, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey
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