The Night Attack, a skirmish fought between forces of Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia, also known as Vlad Dracula or simply Dracula, and Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire on June 17, 1462, initially starts with Dracula's refusal to pay tribute to the Porte and escalates when Dracula invades Bulgaria and impales over twenty-three thousand Turks and Bulgarians.

Mehmed then raises a great army with the objective to conquer Wallachia and annex it to his empire.

The two leaders fight a series of skirmishes, the most notable one being the Night Attack, in which Dracula attacks the Turkish camp in the night in an attempt to kill Mehmed.

The assassination attempt fails and Mehmed marches to the Wallachian capital of Taroviste where he discovers another twenty thousand impaled Turks and Bulgarians.

Demoralized, the Sultan and his troops retreat.