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So,

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you've finally thrown me over
for your Ottoman master.

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I suppose that's meant for me.

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And that for me.

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Mehmed is losing the battle,
but you don't have to die for him.

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I don't plan on dying.

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Then join me, and we'll kill him together.

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We swore an oath of loyalty to Mehmed.

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Those were empty words
uttered with a knife to our throats.

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What about your loyalty to me?

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Who protected you when we were left to rot
in the sultan's palace?

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As the fighting intensifies
in the Ottoman camp,

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Sultan Mehmed II and his soldiers
find themselves facing endless waves

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of Wallachian attackers.

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The wrath of Vlad Dracula.

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A piece of gold
for every Wallachian head you bring me!

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Mehmed has always tried
to turn you against me,

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but the blood of Dracula

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still runs through your veins.

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It is time for you to come home.

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Join me, brother.

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We'll build our own empire,

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and you will lead my army.

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No.

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You have nothing to offer
but war and suffering.

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Thousands have died

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because of your lust
for power and vengeance.

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Even your own wife.

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What do you know of Anastasia's death?

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I was there.

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I'll cut your head.

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It's your head I've come for.

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Then come and take it, brother.

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June 17, 1462,

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Hell comes to Earth

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outside the Wallachian capital
of Târgovişte.

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Under the cover of darkness
and disguised as Ottoman soldiers,

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Vlad Dracula's army
launches the infamous Night Attack,

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a daring surprise assault
on the camp of Sultan Mehmed II.

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{\an8}If I was one of… of Vlad's soldiers,

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{\an8}this is a crazy plan, but a plan that,
if it works, we have an amazing victory.

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And if it doesn't, we go down fighting,

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and we go down fighting
in a most spectacular fashion.

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The Wallachians unleash
a torrent of steel and fire

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in a desperate attempt to stop
the Ottomans taking Vlad's throne.

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{\an8}
The Wallachians get inside the camp,

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{\an8}and they dash forward, carrying torches,

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{\an8}shooting arrows as wildly as they can,

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{\an8}and causing as much chaos
and confusion as they can.

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It's pitch black.
You can't see what's going on.

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You don't know who's who.

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So, the initial attack by Vlad
is a huge success.

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This was potentially a disaster.

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Hold the line!

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They're losing ground! Keep pushing!

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Hold the line!

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Sultan!

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Our men can't hold our position
much longer!

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We're about to be overrun!

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Have faith, Ali Bey.

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Do you think I intend to die
in this hellhole?

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Hold!

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Father always said you were weak.

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Father was wrong about many things.

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Let's see how sharp your sword is,
baby brother.

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You should show more respect
for the new ruler of Wallachia.

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One of the sultan's bootlicks,

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sent to do his dirty work.

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You will die
by Prince Radu's sword or my own.

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Either way, we'll deliver what's left
from your corpse to the sultan.

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Once I kill Mehmed, I'll be back for you.

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Get him!

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Vlad Dracula flees into the chaos,

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joining his soldiers,

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who continue pouring
into the Ottoman camp.

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Sultan, our line is breaking!

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Now you are mine.

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Unleash the Janissaries!

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{\an8}Whenever you saw the Janissaries
on the field in front of you,

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{\an8}you knew that hell was coming.

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It's a trap.

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It's a trap! It's a trap!

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At least one Ottoman chronicle says that

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the Ottomans were waiting
for the Wallachians that night.

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The sultan must have known,

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even if he never told anyone in the camp,

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or maybe just told his commanders
and his Janissary corps.

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{\an8}Mehmed was a master
of military strategy and a tactician,

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{\an8}and he was a brilliant soldier.

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He never showed any fear.

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Drive them to the center!

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We know that the losses were huge
for the Ottomans,

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but they managed to regroup
at some point.

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Drive them to the center!

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Mehmed, we must remember,
is the toughest character around.

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Nothing will stop the man.

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He is tough. He is resilient.

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Keep the line!

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Keep the formation!

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Where is he?

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-Where is he?

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Where did he go?

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Find him!

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Thousands are killed
in the first few hours of fighting.

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Hand cannons. Now!

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With the battle
hanging in the balance,

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Mehmed once again
summons his superior firepower.

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Fire!

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Hit them again!

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Fire!

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The Janissaries,
with their incredible discipline,

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form up around the sultan,
and they create a withering wall of fire.

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Ghazis, take the fight to the infidels!

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They are no match for us!

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Sultan.

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Radu, you live.

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Yes, barely.

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Sultan.

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Sultan, we should get you away from here,
where it's safer.

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And where might that be?

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Sultan,

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my brother has escaped.

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He's coming for you.

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It is as it should be then.

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I will find him first and kill him.

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Face me, Mehmed!

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Face me, Mehmed!

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It's time to end this!

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-Sultan, no!

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You came here to kill me?

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Here I am!

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The glory and renown
you've sought your entire life.

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It's not glory I'm seeking, Mehmed.

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It's revenge.

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Radu and Mahmud Pasha
are not here to save you.

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-But they will help me bury you.

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Just like when we sparred as boys.

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Ha?

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I kept the wolves
from your door for years!

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-Protected you like a brother!
-Lies!

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You took my brother
and destroyed my family!

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You are blind and a fool,

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but I will keep my promise
and give you an honorable death.

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How you did to my wife?

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It gives me some comfort
knowing your wife is also…

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dead.

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No.

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Yes, and you will soon join her.

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No!

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Wallachia will be your grave.

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Die!

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This is madness.
Why are you doing this?

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00:15:09,791 --> 00:15:11,333
How could you do this?

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Show me some patience and loyalty.

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Wallachia will be your grave.

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-Sultan, do you hear me?
-Can you hear me?

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-I'll kill you! I'll kill you!
-No, Sultan!

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Sultan, it's me.

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Where's Vlad?

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He is gone.

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There's nowhere to run.

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I will find him and kill him.

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Vlad alive represented a threat.

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He had escaped with his life
so many times,

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he had to be killed.

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The Night Attack, which began
three hours after sunset on June 17,

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00:16:05,666 --> 00:16:08,750
rages on until00 a.m. the next morning.

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According to some chronicles
of the battle,

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in those five horrific hours,

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some 20,000 men were killed.

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Vlad Dracula's surprise attack
pushes Mehmed's army to the brink,

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but he fails to kill the sultan.

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A devastating blow

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for the Impaler Lord's attempt
to hold on to his throne.

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The discipline of the Janissaries

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with all the terrors and the horrors
they've been through,

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there's still enough to drive
the Wallachians back from the camp

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and also exhaust the last arrow
in Vlad Dracula's quiver.

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Please, no! My only loyalty is
to the sultan! I swear it! Please!

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Vlad's spy?

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One of them.

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We'll give him a chance
to reveal the others

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before he's relieved
of his traitorous head.

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My brother's scheme almost succeeded.

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How did you know where he would attack?

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The Battle of Issus.

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00:17:33,666 --> 00:17:36,291
In 333 B.C.,

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Alexander was greatly outnumbered
by the Persian king, Darius.

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He gambled and decided to attack the king
and his personal guard directly,

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believing that if he killed him,
his much larger army would collapse.

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And did Alexander win?

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He routed the Persians.

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00:17:55,666 --> 00:18:00,625
But Vlad Dracula is not Alexander,

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and I am not Darius.

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{\an8}Four hundred and fifty miles
southeast of Târgovişte

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00:18:13,458 --> 00:18:15,500
{\an8}in the imperial palace…

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00:18:19,958 --> 00:18:21,583
Do you know why you are here?

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00:18:24,708 --> 00:18:26,541
No, Princess Mara.

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00:18:28,708 --> 00:18:32,083
We wanted to commend you
for your… loyal service.

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00:18:33,833 --> 00:18:37,500
Unfortunately,
your loyalty was to the wrong person.

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The Wallachian plot

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00:18:42,541 --> 00:18:45,875
to assassinate the sultan's family
has been thwarted,

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00:18:46,458 --> 00:18:49,416
but there are still loose ends to tie up.

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00:18:51,750 --> 00:18:56,000
Sultana Gulbahar, would you give
our friend here some water?

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He seems nervous.

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00:19:12,916 --> 00:19:14,750
Thank you, Sultana.

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00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,541
Your friend Elena is no longer with us,

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00:19:23,291 --> 00:19:24,166
but…

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she left this for you.

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They tell me it's quick,

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00:19:32,916 --> 00:19:34,458
and you won't suffer…

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…much.

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Eight miles
outside of Târgovişte,

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Vlad Dracula has been defeated,

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00:19:51,916 --> 00:19:55,625
but the capital city is not yet
under Ottoman control.

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00:20:00,083 --> 00:20:00,958
Last night,

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00:20:02,416 --> 00:20:09,083
Vlad Dracula threw the entire might
of his army at us and failed.

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The price of their failure was death.

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00:20:18,125 --> 00:20:21,958
You, soldier, how many Wallachian heads
did you collect for me?

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Nine, Sultan.

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00:20:26,250 --> 00:20:29,208
Then you shall collect
your nine gold pieces today.

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00:20:33,333 --> 00:20:37,875
Many of our brothers were martyred
at the hands of the infidels.

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Today, we bury them,

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but we will not forget their sacrifice.

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00:20:48,916 --> 00:20:50,041
As for our enemy,

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I look around, and the only Wallachians
I see are dead or in chains!

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We did not ask for this war,
but we will end it!

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Today, we grieve!

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00:21:05,583 --> 00:21:08,750
Tomorrow, we take Târgovişte!

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Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!

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00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,375
Allahu Akbar!
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!

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We thought you were dead.

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I am very much alive…

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00:22:53,791 --> 00:22:55,041
but so is the sultan.

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The countryside is crawling
with Janissaries.

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00:22:59,041 --> 00:23:02,041
I know. It won't be long
before they reach us.

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00:23:04,666 --> 00:23:07,000
Mehmed intends to put my brother
on the throne.

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Gather as many men as you can.

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We'll fight them.

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00:23:19,916 --> 00:23:22,125
We'll fight them
in the forests and mountains.

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00:23:22,208 --> 00:23:27,000
Yes, my Prince. Yes, and Târgovişte.

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00:23:28,083 --> 00:23:29,166
-Hmm.

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00:23:38,708 --> 00:23:40,791
Mehmed has no idea what awaits him.

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Exhausted but determined,

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00:23:54,916 --> 00:23:58,500
Mehmed and the Ottoman army
arrive at Târgovişte.

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00:24:02,583 --> 00:24:05,458
{\an8}A bittersweet return for Prince Radu.

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00:24:26,041 --> 00:24:28,416
Since my father first ruled these lands,

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the throne has changed hands nine times.

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00:24:38,333 --> 00:24:41,041
He and my older brother, Mircea…

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00:24:43,750 --> 00:24:45,000
were killed for it,

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just as Vlad will be.

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When does it end?

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It never ends.

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So long as you sit on the throne,

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you can trust no one.

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00:25:12,333 --> 00:25:14,666
And never show weakness.

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And what if I displease you, Mehmed?

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Learn from your brother's mistakes
and forge your own path.

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We only have so long
to make our mark in this world.

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But first, we must take Târgovişte.

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Târgovişte
is a natural fortress

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because it's sitting on top
of a very high outcrop of rock.

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It was a well-engineered city as well.

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It… it wasn't, um,
created at the level, and depth,

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and thickness of a classic medieval city
expecting a gunpowder assault.

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But this is a city
that when you place your eye upon it,

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think to yourself as an ordinary soldier,

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"This is going to be
a very, very, very hard nut to crack."

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Sultan?

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Hmm?

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What is it, Mahmud Pasha?

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Something is wrong.

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-Turn!

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-Turn!

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Mehmed wants to hunt down Vlad
and make sure he's no longer a threat,

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but Vlad retreats up
towards the Carpathian Mountains,

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where he can try and send out messages

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to try and get some help
from the Hungarians,

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but what he's also done in doing this
is abandon his capital city.

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He finds the capital
of Wallachia, Târgovişte,

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an abandoned city, without inhabitants,
on a dusty summer day

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with all the gates open.

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00:29:43,458 --> 00:29:45,083
I don't like this.

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Sultan!

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00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:52,500
And next,

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the sultan encounters one more surprise.

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The sight that confronts Mehmed

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on the road out
from the Wallachian capital

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is one that will probably haunt him
for the rest of his life.

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It was called
"The Forest of Corpses."

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Some of the accounts say
that this spectacle was five miles

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with the impaled bodies
of Ottoman soldiers and Muslims.

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Twenty-four thousand individuals
of different ages, different genders,

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all impaled and presented
in horrific ways.

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00:31:54,833 --> 00:31:57,750
You have maybe
one of the most beautiful pieces

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of psychological warfare.

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00:32:01,333 --> 00:32:04,916
The chronicles say
that even the sultan got off his horse,

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and he put his, uh, rug on the ground,
and he started praying.

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00:32:09,250 --> 00:32:10,541
And the army did the same

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00:32:10,625 --> 00:32:13,291
because never in the history
of the Ottoman Empire,

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{\an8}had an Ottoman ruler and an Ottoman army
seen what they were seeing.

302
00:32:25,166 --> 00:32:30,250
But the most devastating blow
struck by Vlad in the war for Wallachia

303
00:32:30,333 --> 00:32:31,583
is yet to come.

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Hamza Bey.

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00:33:05,541 --> 00:33:08,916
Have all of them taken down at once…

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and given a proper burial,

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00:33:14,083 --> 00:33:16,083
far from this charnel house.

308
00:33:16,916 --> 00:33:18,041
Yes, Sultan.

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00:33:25,291 --> 00:33:26,791
Hamza Bey was given

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00:33:26,875 --> 00:33:29,583
a particularly high stake
because of his high rank,

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00:33:29,666 --> 00:33:33,041
but also he'd been dressed up
in his nicest gear

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to make sure he was putting on
a good display for the sultan.

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00:33:36,166 --> 00:33:37,666
It's those kinds of details

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that show that Vlad was really thinking
about who his audience was for this,

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and it clearly had an intended effect.

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{\an8}It's like you can have the city,
you can have the land,

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{\an8}but you will be a lord of the dead.

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00:33:53,541 --> 00:33:56,500
This is what you are.
You are a lord of the dead.

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{\an8}
Vlad Dracula remains on the run,

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{\an8}pursued by Ottoman forces
in the countryside.

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00:34:20,583 --> 00:34:24,333
But before Sultan Mehmed II
departs Wallachia in July,

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00:34:26,125 --> 00:34:30,916
he deals the death blow to
Vlad's violent and bloody six-year reign,

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not with a sword,

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but with a coronation.

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Prince Radu, Voivode of Wallachia.

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00:35:26,083 --> 00:35:28,750
Vlad and I used to chase each other
around this room

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00:35:30,083 --> 00:35:31,916
when our father was off at war.

328
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,583
One day, your children will do the same.

329
00:35:48,833 --> 00:35:49,750
You're leaving?

330
00:35:51,958 --> 00:35:54,041
But Vlad is still out there.

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00:35:54,125 --> 00:35:58,291
I would like nothing more than to mount
him on a stake outside these walls,

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00:35:59,375 --> 00:36:03,166
to make him suffer and rot,
as he did to Hamza Bey and the others,

333
00:36:04,833 --> 00:36:06,875
but… …

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00:36:06,958 --> 00:36:10,625
there are pressing matters in the Aegean
with the scheming Venetians…

335
00:36:12,666 --> 00:36:16,666
and I'm anxious to see Gulbahar
and my son.

336
00:36:17,791 --> 00:36:20,666
Yes, of course.

337
00:36:22,458 --> 00:36:23,916
I am leaving Mihaloğlu Ali Bey

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and 2,000 of my best soldiers
here with you.

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00:36:32,083 --> 00:36:32,916
And this.

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00:36:51,208 --> 00:36:52,833
Thank you, Mehmed.

341
00:37:10,458 --> 00:37:12,541
Be the ruler Vlad should have been.

342
00:37:23,416 --> 00:37:27,541
Long may you reign, Radu Dracula.

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00:37:35,458 --> 00:37:38,500
Radu gets the crown
he never thought he would get,

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00:37:38,583 --> 00:37:43,833
and Mehmed gets a friendly ruler
in this key borderland territory.

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00:37:50,750 --> 00:37:56,166
{\an8}We can often say that Vlad Dracula spent
so much time in the Ottoman court that

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{\an8}he understood his enemy,

347
00:37:57,458 --> 00:38:01,166
{\an8}but I think we must also
return the compliment to Mehmed.

348
00:38:01,250 --> 00:38:03,250
He understood his enemy as well,

349
00:38:03,333 --> 00:38:05,750
and he certainly understood
Wallachian politics,

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00:38:05,833 --> 00:38:08,833
and he knew
that by putting Radu on the throne,

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00:38:08,916 --> 00:38:12,166
Vlad Dracula was going
to fall from grace very quickly.

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00:38:12,791 --> 00:38:17,875
And with this one simple gambit,
Mehmed outplays him, outfoxes him,

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00:38:17,958 --> 00:38:21,000
and it's all over for Vlad Dracula,
and he has to flee.

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00:38:23,708 --> 00:38:27,041
After coming within inches
of killing the most powerful ruler

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00:38:27,125 --> 00:38:28,333
in the world,

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00:38:28,416 --> 00:38:32,416
Vlad Dracula soon finds himself
a man with no country,

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00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:35,916
a dwindling army,
and few political allies.

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Forever defined by his barbarity

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00:38:40,166 --> 00:38:44,750
and his heroic, but ill-fated uprising
against Mehmed the Conqueror.

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00:38:50,250 --> 00:38:53,375
We're a two-days' ride
from the Hungarian border.

361
00:38:55,083 --> 00:38:57,708
I won't ask you to accompany me.
The choice is yours.

362
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,583
Your fight is my fight.

363
00:39:05,791 --> 00:39:09,750
Take heart.
We will return and have our revenge.

364
00:39:13,041 --> 00:39:15,375
We'll see each other soon, brother Mehmed.

365
00:39:30,625 --> 00:39:33,625
If Vlad had succeeded
in killing the sultan,

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the campaign would have ended
in that moment.

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00:39:36,750 --> 00:39:39,416
It would have been
not just a military blow,

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00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:43,208
it… it would have been a…
a propaganda blow

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00:39:43,291 --> 00:39:48,333
for him to kill Mehmed,
the guy who conquered Constantinople.

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00:39:48,416 --> 00:39:52,583
He would have been a hero
for the whole Christian world.

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00:39:53,291 --> 00:39:57,208
He didn't, so he became known as Dracula,
the bloodthirsty vampire.

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00:40:00,458 --> 00:40:03,708
Mehmed's strategical brilliance
on the battlefield

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00:40:03,791 --> 00:40:05,958
and cunning political maneuverings

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00:40:06,041 --> 00:40:11,125
deal Vlad Dracula a devastating defeat
from which he never fully recovers.

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00:40:11,625 --> 00:40:17,333
Wallachia will remain a vassal state
of the Ottomans for the next 400 years.

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00:40:19,208 --> 00:40:22,416
{\an8}

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00:40:29,625 --> 00:40:32,125
Months after his victory at Târgovişte,

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00:40:32,208 --> 00:40:37,375
{\an8}the sultan remains embittered
that Vlad Dracula still lives.

379
00:40:50,291 --> 00:40:51,833
What's wrong, Mehmed?

380
00:40:55,291 --> 00:40:57,208
You must let this obsession go.

381
00:40:59,041 --> 00:41:01,541
You won. Radu is on the throne.

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00:41:02,333 --> 00:41:05,041
-Your wife and son are safe.
-Vlad Dracula is still alive--

383
00:41:05,125 --> 00:41:09,291
He's nothing but a disgraced prince
with no throne and no power.

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00:41:09,375 --> 00:41:11,250
I cannot rest

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00:41:11,333 --> 00:41:14,875
until he pays for what he did
to Hamza Bey and the others.

386
00:41:15,541 --> 00:41:17,458
I swore an oath!

387
00:41:19,458 --> 00:41:25,833
You won great victories
in Anatolia, the Mediterranean, Europe.

388
00:41:25,916 --> 00:41:29,583
This city is a reflection of your vision.

389
00:41:30,708 --> 00:41:32,875
Rome is within your grasp.

390
00:41:35,375 --> 00:41:37,333
But you must put Vlad behind you.

391
00:41:39,958 --> 00:41:42,208
Your destiny lies elsewhere.

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00:41:51,208 --> 00:41:52,166
Destiny…

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00:42:24,291 --> 00:42:27,291
Our destiny can be found here, The Iliad.

394
00:42:55,958 --> 00:43:00,125
"Let me not then die ingloriously…

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00:43:02,208 --> 00:43:03,666
…and without a struggle,

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00:43:05,458 --> 00:43:07,958
but let me first do some great thing."

397
00:43:08,458 --> 00:43:10,708
"That shall be told among men hereafter."

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00:43:25,958 --> 00:43:28,208
{\an8}
Mehmed finally meets Vlad Dracula

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00:43:28,291 --> 00:43:32,750
{\an8}face-to-face one last time in 1477

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00:43:33,791 --> 00:43:36,833
{\an8}at the ancient walls of Constantinople.