Vlad Tepes


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1428/29 Vlad Tepes, son of Vlad Dracul is born in the small town of Sighisoara.
1442 Vlad Tepes becomes the Prince of Wallachia and moves to Tirgoviste.
1443 Vlad Tepes is taken hostage by the Turks.
1447 Vlad Dracul is beheaded.
1448 After being dethroned, Vlad Tepes goes to Moldavia and befriends Prince Stefan.
1451 Vlad and Stefan head to Transylvania.
1455 The fall of Constantinople.
1456 With the assistance of John Hunyadi, Vlad Tepes regains the Wallachian throne.
1459 Easter massacre of boyers. Dracul's castle is rebuilt.
1460 Brasov, Romania comes under siege.
1461 After a successful campaign against Turkish settlements along the Danube, Vlad takes a summer retreat to Tirgoviste.
1462 Vlad flees to Transylvania after a battle at Castle Dracula. Vlad begins thirteen years of imprisonment.
1476/77 Vlad is assasinated.


A little known fact about Vlad and his tactics...
Vlad would have the horses used in battle shod backwards to confuse the enemy.



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