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I've read in the title "Vlad the Impaler tries to kill me..." and then I saw in the thumbnail "Im coming for you". Makes you think about your choices in life and if you were in fact a good boy.

Don't you just love it when the crusaders abandon their allies at the moment of need?

I never realized that Columbus and Vlad lived around the same time. Feels surreal.

Vlad and Mehmet went from being childhood friends to eternal enemies. Their battles represent the personal battles between them two. Great to have David narrating the Wallachian - Ottoman war. 💯⚔️

Beating a man in a duel and forcing him to dig his own grave in front of his whole army is cold as hell.

11:05 - And 133 years later, at Giurgiu, Michael The Brave would eventually end the Ottoman's desire to transform Wallachia into an Ottoman province by humiliating Sinan Pasha and ending his career but also ending the Ottoman's use of the Akinji raiders (all of them all slaughtered). 25:00 - On a side note, my family's house is in Lucieni, the village north of the forest from where Vlad launched his attack. Today, in front of the Lucieni school is the bust of the Voievode, the one and only, Vlad Tepes.

The real Vlad makes Dracula look like a middle-class school boy. Mehmets life... There was no more epic novel written in history...His wars with Konstantin, Vlad, Skanderbeg, Uzun Hasan ,Hunyadi, the karamans,the venetians,... Stuff for a lot of more series

My one my fav. Leader and strategist and warrior. Greeting Romania. 🇹🇩from Poland 🇵🇱. You had Vlad we had Jeremy Wisniowiecki.

Vlad Tepes (The Impaler) founded in 1459 București (Bucharest) the nowadays capital of Romania

Its so infuriating watching Dracula get betrayed over and over again.

I have watched this documentary a number of times, but this time round the amount of details shared in here are amazingly surprising. The work put in here is incredible. I commend the efforts and the product. Job well done.

One of your first videos, yet still as impressive! thanks for your hard work HM.

I will instantly click on anything about Vlad the Impaler!

Turkish sultans were known in the West as great warriors and conquerors , but they were also famous for killing the other members of their nuclear fam- ily and for suddenly ordering the execution of trusted advisors

Vlad x Mehmet should gain their own movie.

Vlad REALLY needs to be playable in Civilization 7.

Man. Vlad was a true military genius. He just never had the resources to properly fight the Ottomans.

This got to be One of the craziest moments in military history🥶🤯

Obviously this is better than Netflix

One of the few people of the 13th century to achieve immortality

It is very difficult to overcome the Janissaries even for Vlad

“Good fences make good neighabors” Vlad- “bad neighabors make good fences”

Always interesting to think how much different things if at all could have gone in the Balkans if Skanderbeg or Vlad had gotten much broader support. These guys were intimately familiar with the Ottomans and knew how to fight them, not just a bunch of French Knights doing a suicide charge. They still seem important because they muddied things up and slowed the Ottomans down and gave the Venetians, Austrians and others more time.

Vlad is such magnificent figure, he's dare enough to fight mehmed after what mehmed did to constantinople.

Loved the little R. Lee Ermey caricature! Viva The Gunny!

King Mathias of Hungary was most definetly the definition of a coward. Long live the name of Vlad tbe impaler!

Thanks for the amazing video, HM! Splendid work with the resourcing materials as always! Massive fan here, I do not think there was a single medieval warfare video I haven't watched from you guys. I salute your work and hope to see more videos around the Romanian Principalities in the future. Greatest regards, A true Wallachian

Hello, here is a Transylvanian. I am pleased to see someone saying Romanian words almost well, few make the attempt to understand our language. I wanted to tell you that Vlad never formed a chivalric order traditionally, but rather an elite unit, as you said, it is the order of "the brave" or "the heroes."

The personality of Mehmed II the Conqueror (1432-1481) is portrayed with considerable variations in the chronographies, the histories, and the multi- farious other texts that pertain to the conquest of Constantinople and to the establishment of the Turks as the dominant power in the Balkan penin- sula. Theologians saw in the young conqueror the new Sennacherib, the precursor of Antichrist who was to destroy the Church of Christ', while se- veral humanists, historians, and scholars adopted a milder and often am- bivalent attitude. They described the Turks as "Asiatic barbarians" who might destroy the ongoing rebirth of the Greco-Roman culture, but at the same time evidently reflecting the Renaissance concept of the ideal prin- ce-they did not hide their admiration for Mehmed's strong personality, his administrative ability, his religious tolerance, and his military genius. In this spirit they did not hesitate to connect him with the Classical tradi- tion and draw parallels between the young sultan and Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Sometimes Mehmed was even portrayed as an exemplary leader, a "philosopher king" surrounded by artists and men of letters, a prin- ce who divided his time between victorious campaigns and leisurely academic pursuits reaching so far afield as to embrace Greek and Latin literature.

Hi,a turk here. There should be 3rd season of rise of empires ottoman skanderbeg season or some other series from the beginning of battle martzha or kosovo Vlad, Radu, Mehmet, Constantine, Skanderberg, Mathias Corvinus, John Hunyadi, Brankovic,Uzun Hasan, Walislaw, Setefan Lazerevic, Bayezid, Sigismund, stefan the great, Timur.... How many amazing leaders packed so liittle of a time frame.. There should be internationally collebrated TV series..

Excellent work. I wish it was longer with more details to watch. I’m glad you made an episode with Vlad’s history.

I am born in modern day Wallachia (Romania), we have poems, many stories about his doings and sayings, Vlad, one of the greatest leaders to ever walk this lands, he is respected and remebered to this day by everyone, the city he founded (Bucharest) is now the capital of our country

Love you HistoryMarche !! ❤

Brilliant content. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Love and appreciation from Sri Lankan fan of you.

The bird of hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me Tame

The Scourge of the Ottomans! Thanks For this 🎉🎉🎉🎉

It still bugs me that this series about my favourite person from history remains unfinished. Vlad returned to Wallachia as mentioned in footnote 1 and still achieved some successes until being killed in action.

Great info on a situation previously only alluded to.

Thanks for your excellent presentation of this historical event

Holy Dracul!! Mighty dragon and defender of the christians. Got a Voïvod badge on my jacket. Thx for the vids and cheer from France!

hello from targoviste! the real story is here😁👏👏

Love David's voice and the concise imagery.

I like your accent david amazing narrator you make me feel like im in it

So this mad chad vlad basically built what is now modern Romania and also its capital Budachrest what a legend .

Thank you for this post, very interesting.

Another excellent video ❤

Vlad Țepeș was a f** badass surrounded by cowards and idiots. This video presented the life of Țepeș better than my history teacher and I say this as a Romanian!

I'm impressed, not a single mention of Dracula in the entire video 😂👏🏼

Vlad probably should be recognized as one of the great generals of his time. He only failed, because he counted on ezternal support that never came. The Hungarians were the true villaina of Vlad's tale.

I love your videos thank you so much

The most fascinating history video.

i like the style used for troops, maps etc. its reminicent of your older videos

Super vidéo !

That’s cold blooded he says “they depart earthly sufferings for a better afterlife “

Mehmed - I was called here by humans who wish to pay me a tribute. Vlad - Tribute!?! You steal men's souls and make them your slaves!

I think you are the best channel in this business.

Very informative ❤❤

Ah deadly snakes and mosquitos... perfect place for my capital.

Please continue ❤

Thanks for more on the old world 🌎

The thumbnail, very Night Lords. I love it.

I was taught that Vlad "the impaler" was a tyranical bloodthirsty monster who got his nickname by impaling his subjects for no reason. It's only through research that I learned that (like most things) there was nuance to his rule and that theres a reason he is a hero to Romanians.

One look at that mustache and we knew this Impaler fellow meant business. That mustache is so badass, brother, that we haven't seen one like it since. It's, like, unique.

You’re doing a great job. Is there any possibility of a video on the battle of Qadisyah?

Dziękujemy.

"He was a military genius, the founder of Bucharest, a valiant ruler. It's true he killed and impaled, but it's not that the Turks were any nicer to the Christians. Today we would perhaps talk about crimes against humanity. But it was normal then." - Francis Ford Coppola, Movie Director who produced Bram Stoker's novel Dracula

Dracula was a true hero. Even after being betrayed he kept battling. It is a shame that more people in the West do not understand what an incredible man he was. Sadly, they watched a movie and let that makeup their minds.

Thank You.

24:59 A night attack is exactly what a vampire would do.

Amazing

This is so refreshing, after seeing the Netflix series Mehmed vs Vlad. Being produced by Turks, no wonder it painted an extremely skewed version of history. It feels really good to view this unbiased rendition of events.

We definitely need a detailed video about battle of Albulena 1457

After over a decade of watching history youtube stuff. I now give any of my friends or family interested in the subject HistoryMarche as my first recommendation, perhaps tied only with historia civilis for both a high level view of the situation, and ability to convey the story and information to non-experts in a way they can parse without simplifying so much that it essentially becomes false to an extent. Anyways keep up the good work and Thank you, and all the supporters for allowing this content to exits!

For the Algorithm!

Will you cover the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty? Especially the Battle of Yehuling 1211?

Awesome documentary! Although it's a serious oversight to omit Vlad's meeting in the cave with the vampire king! 👑🧛‍♀🦇

nice video

I actually just watched parts 1&2 this morning. lol

Turkish nationalists writin their comments from social support given apartments in Berlin xD

12:40 Since Dacian times⁉️ You mean Roman times brother, _Vlach_ is an exonym for Romanians meaning "People speaking in the tongues of the Romans".

that is one tough man

So I see an error in the map, Albania was not fully controlled till 1468.

Thanks for the Turkish subtitles

We have saying in rhyme for betrayal of your own kind: who will who, than yours-own you (to betray). The Ottomans had little trouble from local Balcan population because people there are prone to betrial

This documentary…is way better than Netflix :)) ❤

Ah, good old times when the rulers were fighting one-on-one on the battle field while the soldiers stood by cheering them on! bring back those time please and I guarantee there will be no wars these days 😁😁😁.According to the turkish chronicles of the time Mehmed The Conqueror bribed King Matthias Corvinus (for a large sum of gold and promise of non-aggression pact) to apprehend Vlad Dracula. It is way cheaper to bribe than to conduct an immensely expensive expeditionary force. It is extremely difficult to access medieval turkish chronicles due to immense bureaucracy and secrecy (don't ask me why). On another if Stephen the Great (Moldavian king, another legendary warrior, given the title Champion of Christendom by the Pope) would've united with or helped Vlad Dracula the results would've been very different. Mehmed the Conqueror was the greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire, a shrewd diplomat and a great general (he personally conducted hands on all his military endeavors). Given all these circumstances Vlad Dracula is my favorite champion, he stood fast against insurmountable odds yet he did not budge. Legendary figure in history.

After Vlad was captured, his head was cut off and his head was paraded all around Constantinepol.

Was that the "The more you know" comet?

Vlad is the definition of "Revenge".

That camp raid was crazy.

Word „vitez" means knight. Great video, Vlad was extrordinary person. Поздрав из Србије!

So Vlad rules Wallachia like an Ottoman would from what he learned in the Turkish court.

Exelent

We can all agree what a total badass soldier Vlad was and could only imagine the amount of terror that his actions projected uppon the common turkish soldiers. Funny fact: after a few years in captivity, the relations between Vlad and Mathias improved considerably and the later invited Vlad to be present when ottoman envoys arrived at his court, to amuse himself to see how terrorised the envoys were uppon seeing Vlad presence.😅 Congrats on your colaboration with Corpus Draculianum to bring the opposing armies numbers down to earth.👍

I like everything from you, I just need to know why did it take 6 years for this? Like your content.

so when does he turn into a vampire lol :P. great video !

Vlad sure was the best chance of recapturing the western Bosporus region from the Ottomans but it seems the European kings would rather perish then unite in a single goal.

Vampire powered raids

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode shared by an amazing ( history Marche) channel...episode about infamous whealchias. The Vlad, the impaler (prince) struggled to preserve Whelchias' independence & and temporarily strengthened Whelchia 1455-1460....confronted Ottoman empire Sultan ( MamadII ) through Gureella warfares...