>Be Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia
>Spend your youth as an Ottoman hostage
>Return to a shattered kingdom
>Take the throne and crush internal enemies
>Mehmed II invades with a far larger army
>Fight back with ambushes, scorched earth and night attacks
>Terrify the invaders outside Târgoviște
>Become one of the fiercest symbols of resistance to Ottoman expansion
We need Mel Gibson to make a Vlad the Impaler movie.
One of the hardest sentences in history:
“We have broken our peace with the Ottomans, not for our own benefit, but… for the preservation of Christianity.” - Vlad the Impaler