So I watched Dracula Untold and I thought, well that's clearly made up, and then I went to Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org
The
Night Attack at Târgoviște (
Romanian:
Atacul de noapte de la Târgoviște,
Turkish:
Tirgovişte Baskını) was a battle fought between forces of
Vlad III, Prince of
Wallachia, and Sultan
Mehmed II of the
Ottoman Empire on Thursday, June 17, 1462. The battle started after Mehmed, who already had tense relations with Vlad, discovered his alliance with
Hungary's king
Matthias Corvinus and ordered his forces to ambush him. Vlad foiled the attack and invaded
Bulgaria. In response, Mehmed raised a great army with the objective to conquer Wallachia and annex it to his empire. The two leaders fought a series of skirmishes, the most notable one being the Night Attack where Vlad attacked the Turkish camp in the night in an attempt to kill Mehmed. The assassination attempt failed and Mehmed marched to the Wallachian capital of
Târgoviște, where he found a few men with cannons. After leaving the capital, Mehmed discovered 23,844 impaled Turks whom Vlad had killed during his invasion of Bulgaria.