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Night attack at Târgoviște has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 26, 2006. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that in the Night Attack* skirmish, Vlad III Dracula is said to have been "one of the first European crusaders to use gunpowder in a deadly artistic way"?*
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Semi-protected edit request on 18 July 2024

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In the first paragraph, towards the end, it states something to the effect that Vlad testified to 22,000 impalements in his letter to Corvinus. This lacks citation. I want to know which letter this is or what the source for this is. 57.140.28.26 (talk) 21:59, 18 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. SerChevalerie (talk) 21:25, 10 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

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