RE: Most notorious badass in history?
August 13, 2023 at 9:51 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2023 at 10:03 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 13, 2023 at 7:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’m not convinced that leading a military force, however effective and brilliant the leadership, qualifies as badassery. Jake LaMotta was more of a badass than Scipio.
Boru
Vlad the impaler, Realizing his outclassed military force could never repulse ottoman forces in actual battle, successfully repulsed sultan Mehmet II by impaling 25000 people on stakes along the anticipated route of advance of the ottoman army.
The sultan explained that he retreated after seeing the appalling spectacle because he didn’t want to kill a person who had done such a great deed as Vlad had.