DRACULA AGAINST THE TURKS
"I have had a long talk with the Count. I asked him a few questions on Transylvanian history and he warmed up to the subject wonderfully. In his speaking of things and people, and especially of battles, he spoke as if he had been present at them all. (...) "That we were proud; that when the Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers, we drove the back ? (...)...and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkeyland."
"...Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground ? This was a Dracula indeed ! (p.32, 33).
"I have asked my friend Arminius, of Buda-Pesth University, to make this record. He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One. (p.280)
"So he came to London to invade a new land. He was beaten, and when all hope of success was lost, and his existence in danger, he fled back over the sea to his home; just as formerly he had fled back over the Danube from Turkey-land" (p.397).