... and he ordered that if anyone should take one of the hanging victims down, he would hang in his place. From descriptions such as these the term "the forest of the impaled" was coined. In addition to physical torture, Dracula had a predilection for various forms of moral torture such as obtaining confessions prior to punishment (he would often then have the confessors tortured anyway) to put a man ... day there is a field known as "Tunuri," or "the field of cannon." The bulk of the Turkish janissaries descended to the river, forded it at much the same place where the Tartars had crossed ...

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