Campaigns of Vlad Tepes aganist the Ottomans

When the man known to history as Vlad the Impaler was a child, he and his younger brother were taken as hostages by the Ottoman empire for tribute from his father. Vlad's younger brother was very submissive to the Ottomans, and became absorbed in their culture. Vlad however was a violent child, and he often assaulted his teachers, causing his teachers to abuse him. This is believed by scholars to have caused Vlad hated for the Ottomans. When he was monarch over Wallachia, he got dethroned by his rivals, but he quickly retook power. He declared war against the Ottomans, at he had success at 1st, including impaling 20,000 Ottomans. This sight even caused the Ottoman Sultan who was NOT noted for being humane, was so revolted by the sight of impaled corpses that he retreated. However, Vlad was soon dethroned again and was imprisoned in Hungry. He was soon released and he retook the throne of Wallachia again. He continued his war against the Ottomans. Vlad was soon assassinated with very different accounts on the circumstances. One accounts starts that he manged to kill 3 of his assailants before dying. A 2nd account states that he was accidentally killed by his own men. Another more bizarre account states that he was killed while having sex with the Turks surrounding by the corpses of his bodyguards. We will never know exactly how he died, but he left an astounding impact on Western popular culture in the eponymous novel Dracula.