The Ottomans didn't invent impalement, and there's no way of ... these tales have nothing at all to do with the historical figure, Vlad the Impaler.

Few historical figures have lived up to their epithets quite as fully (or bloodily) as Vlad the Impaler. Legend has ... maimed, and impaled enough people to earn a reputation for cruelty.

Back in Walachia, he impaled Saxon merchants who violated ... this time gave him the less noble sobriquet Tepes—“the Impaler.” Vlad III mounted several bloody attacks against Catholic ...

Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler, the real life dracula, is surrounded by folklore, mystery, and myth. Even during his time the ...

The Life and Times of Vlad the Impaler The author of a number of books on Islamic ... aside from a penchant for mass impalement, Vlad was more or less about as treacherous and brutal as many of the ...

Vlad III — known as Vlad the Impaler or Voivode (Prince ... turning the field into a "forest of the impaled" — some 20,000 bodies held up on spears. The prince's cruelty became the topic ...

However, his bodyguard emerged and Vlad was forced to retreat. The road to Tirgoviste now lay open, but the Turks were greeted by the grisly remains of the Sultan's troops and envoys impaled by ...