Vlad Țepeș in a Letter to the King of Hungary, 11 Feb. 1462

"I have killed peasants, men, and women, old and young, who lived at Oblucitza and Novoselo, where the Danube flows into the sea, up to Rahova, which is located near Chilia, from the lower Danube up to such places as Samovit and Ghighen. We killed 23,884 Turks without counting those whom we burned in homes or the Turks whose heads were cut by our soldiers..." 

- Vlad Țepeș, letter to King of Hungary, 11 Feb., 1462