Yet, this Ottoman general had a greater war, a war against darkness. He hunted the very progenitor of the vampire legend who impaled his enemies and drank their blood –Vlad al III-lea Ţepeş, also known asVlad Drăculea, who would go down in infamy as, simply,Dracula. The character...
There, he put the nobility to hard labor restoring it. Most died during from maltreatment and exhaustion; those who didn't were impaled alive on spikes outside the castle when restorations were complete [source: Carroll]. Vlad's father, Vlad Dracul, ruled Wallachia from 1436 to 1442, was ...