Dracula was live for using his fangs and supernatural powers to dispatch his victim . But he ostensibly wish to have a few cannonballs by his side as well ( just in font ) .
No , there ’s no occult passage from Bram Stoker’snovelinvolving a battle where the vampire reckoning exhibit his firepower . Rather , allot to the websiteArchaeology in Bulgaria , cannonballs were late excavate from the Bulgarian Ithiel Town of Svishtov , the situation of a military conquest made by the Romanian prince Vlad III . Known more popularly as “ Vlad the Impaler , ” he likelyservedas the inspiration behind Stoker ’s bloodthirsty opposer .
During his sovereignty as one of most ruthless rulers in history , Vlad IIIfrequently butted heads with the Ottoman Turks . The fight came to a fierce head in 1461 , when Vlad and his regular army push for mastery over Svishtov ’s Zishtova Fortress . Now , as Gizmodoreports , archaeologist say they ’ve bring out a collection of one C - previous cannonballs that may have belong to Vlad and were most likely linked to the upshot .
The cannon ball themselves were shot fromculverins , chivalric cannonsthat fired missiles matter up to 16 pounds , which were comparatively light compared to later models . Lead archeologist Nikolay Ovcharov of the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology in Sofia say that ’s what makes these artifacts in particular exciting .
“ We jubilate at those little cannonballs because they are from culverins , " Ovcharov toldFox News . " These were the other cannon which were for the 15th century , up until the sixteenth century , [ and ] they were n’t in use after that . ”
That battle occur as an attempt to reclaim the realm from the occupying Turks . The realm was occupied as far back as the Roman Empire and wasabandonedafter savage intrusion . The Zishtova Fortress was built much later , and Vlad III made it his home — after he reclaimed it from his enemy .
But just because Vlad may have had cannonball at his disposal does n’t mean that some of the battle ’s victims were n’t impaled .
" [ We ] have a letter by Vlad Dracula to the king of Hungary in which he gasconade that he had occupy [ the fort ] after a boisterous battle , and that about 410 Turks were kill during the siege , " Ovcharov said . " Some of them were likely impaled , in his style . "
