Brief Summary Of Dracula

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Dracula's troops were outnumbered by more than two to one. Unable to stop the Sultan's advance by traditional means, Vlad employed "guerilla warfare" to harass the Turks. This included poisoning water sources, diverting streams to create swamps that had to be crossed and sending people suffering from lethal diseases, such as leprosy and tuberculosis, to mix with the Sultan's forces.

The night of June 17, 1462, Vlad and his troops infiltrated the Turkish camp taking advantage of the Sultan's order that his soldiers be confined to their tents after dark. Dracula's forces then attacked using burning torches and sounding bugles to create confusion. The Sultan lost 15,000 men in the skirmish which lasted three hours.

Though this demoralized his troops, it was not enough to stop the Sultan in his determination to take the capital of Wallachia. As he approached the city, however, he found no resistance. Instead, the 60 mile long road to the capital was lined with the bodies of 20,000 impaled Turks and Muslim Bulgarians. The Sultan, horrified at the slaughter, headed home leaving the campaign to his subordinates including Vlad's brother, Radu.

The war continued eventually, draining Vlad of money. He went to Hungary

Andrew's night, the East European "Halloween" - feeding on the blood of the living quite often to the extent of killing them, followed by their victims' resurrection as vampires themselves"; The "undead" represents "one of the dark symbols of the cyclical renewal of life through death described as the myth of the "eternal return" by anthropologists and historians of religions". On certain nights vampires are made to haunt and terrorize his familiar neighborhood and its inhabitants until "helped" to find the final rest of their body and soul like any "normal" deceased by drastic methods such as impaling the corpse with wooden stakes, decapitating or burning