this video is brought to you by War Thunder here are more extreme revenge stories from history number one Pierre Pico if you had a unlimited money how far would you go to get revenge on friends who betrayed you it's the turn of the 19th century in Napoleonic France and for 25-year-old Shoemaker Pierre Pico life's going great though he isn't Rich he's in love with a beautiful woman named margarite vigaro and surprisingly she loves him too after dating for a while Pierre finds out that margarit is actually from a noble family and is very hethy didn't
really matter to Pierre but what a bonus he asks margarite to marry him and she says yes overwhelmed with joy he rushes to tell his friends lupion Solari and Shuba and invites them all to his wedding now you would expect friends to be happy if one of their buddies was about to marry a girl who was not only beautiful but also rich but Pierre's friends were also poor and instead of being happy for him they got insanely jealous instead lupion in particular feels Pierre does not deserve this kind of luck and he comes up with
a prank to tell the police that Pierre is a British spy he kind of expects it to be not that big a deal but remember this is Napoleonic France and they're at war with Britain so this is actually a pretty serious accusation and the police well they take it seriously in the middle of the night on the eve of his wedding Pierre is arrested and thrown into fenis thr Fortress turns out a testimony from three close friends was all the evidence that was needed to lock him up he gets no trial and nobody's told where
he is or what happened to him as far as everyone knows Pierre simply vanished in the night on their wedding day margarite is left standing at the altar she's destroyed and Mourns for Pierre for 2 years but eventually she moves on and marries lupion Pierre's one-time friend who got him thrown in prison in the first place back in the dungeon at fenis thr Pierre has absolutely no idea why he's there after 2 years with no contact with anyone other than prison guards he scrapes a hole through his prison wall and finds an elderly man on
the other side this man is an Italian priest named father Tori and the two become friends years go by and after gaining his trust father Tori tells Pierre that he's wealthy and has a hidden fortune in Milan a few more years pass and father Tori has become frail and is nearing death Pierre is heartbroken as he's about to lose his only friend but before he passes father Tori gives Pierre a map to his treasure father Tori dies in prison and coincidentally the very same year Napoleon is sent into Exile with Napoleon gone all of his
prisoners are set free including Pierre who steps out into the light of day for the first time in 7 years the time in the dungeon has been rough and he's completely unrecognizable compared to the young man he once was his face body and walk are all broken from years in prison at first glance he now appears to be closer to 50 than a man in his 30s Pierre travels to Milan and finds father tor's treasure his dear friend was not lying and he's now made him Rich beyond belief he travels back to France with his
wealth and a new name and runs into a friend named Antoine Alo who by the way did not recognize Pierre at all Pierre offers Aloo a diamond in exchange for information about what happened to a man named Pier Pico and he tells him the story of the prank by his three friends and about lup's marriage to margarite Pierre gives alute the diamond and walks away Furious 7 years of suffering the loss of the love of his life all caused by men he had once considered to be his best friends now with infinite resources and nothing
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while on a shift serving food and drinks he sees his old friends have all stayed in touch and Solari and Shar frequently come in to hang out with lupion he had found all of his targets and now his revenge tour could finally begin a few weeks after Pierre begins working at lupion Cafe shar's body is found dead in an alley stabbed with a knife with a handle engraved with the number one a few days later while walking home after eating at lupon Cafe Solari Falls and starts foaming at the mouth his doctor examines him and
informs him he's been poisoned he dies the next day at the viewing of his body a note with the number two is found pinned to salar's chest lupion is freaked out by the sudden deaths of his two close friends but hey at least his new waiter is doing a good job bour you fing so Pier Revenge admittedly has been pretty vanilla so far but this is where it starts to get wild because lupon was the one who came up with the idea that got Pierre thrown in prison in the first place plus he married his
girl when he was gone for this friend a simple death would just not do lupon needs to suffer lupion has two adult children from a previous marriage and this is where Pierre chooses to begin his revenge lup's daughter is courted by a noble and they fall in love they plan an extravagant wedding with 150 esteemed guests during the wedding dinner the groom is running a little late and a note is placed in front of each guest upon reading the note the dinner guests discovered that the groom is in fact not a noble and is actually
a criminal that is again on the run it turns out Pier had paid this man a large sum to seduce lupion daughter and ruin her wedding lupon and his family are humiliated and the daughter dies from shock a week later next lupon son is arrested for participating in a robbery while drunk and sentenced to 20 years in prison the son objects saying he did nothing wrong but the evidence is there evidence that was planted by Pierre during sentencing the police report Anonymous bribes pushing for the death penalty on top of all of this while away
at the wedding lupion CA Bay is set on fire and he loses everything margarite dies due to the stress of all the misfortune that seems to be coming their way and lupion is left homeless penniless and all alone with his friend's entire life now completely destroyed Pierre finally reveals to lupon that he was in fact not a 50-year-old waiter but a once former friend whom he had betrayed Pierre stabs lupon in the heart with a knife engraved with the number three killing him instantly had that been the end of it we probably would never know
about this story but alut catches Pierre in the act and holds him hostage alut heard Pierre's confession and tries to extort him for his fortune but with his revenge now complete Pierre does not care and is content to die in frustration alute beats Pierre and runs away to England where he tells others of this story on his deathbed years later days later the police find Pierre starving and beaten and he tells them the same story of his Grand Revenge before passing away from his injuries number two Vlad the Impaler and the boyars so you may
have heard about this guy Vlad Dracula before who was the inspiration for the more famous vampire of the same name and you may have also heard of his nickname Vlad the Impaler but do you know how he got his nickname it's pretty brutal so buckle up in the 15th century an area called wakia is sandwiched between the kingdom of Hungary to its North and the Ottoman Empire to its South wakia is ruled by a man named Vlad II and he's in a tough spot see Hungary and the Ottoman Empire hated each other and they both
wanted to control vakia so Vlad II is caught in the middle and he knows that if he shows too much loyalty to one side the other will get pissed and try to invade his territory he sends two of his sons to the Ottoman Empire as hostages as a way to show them that he won't side with the hungarians this might have all worked but a group of nobles called the boyars are tired of llad the second they've gained a lot of wealth and power through the instability of wakia and this stability is hurting their bottom
line so in 1447 they decide to work with the new ruler of Hungary a man named John hunyady to overthrow Vlad II the boy are kill Vlad II and capture his oldest son Mira they blind Mira with red hot iron stakes and then bury him alive John hunyadi and the boyars instill a new ruler over wakia a guy named vladislav II and word gets back to Vlad II's sons in the Ottoman Empire one of vlad's sons named Vlad III did they not have any other names back then you know what let's just call him Vlad
Dracula to keep things less confusing anyways Dracula gets word of this and is enraged he heads back to ack to avenge his father and regain his throne with wakia now secured John hunyady and vladislav go out to fight the Ottoman Empire and while they're gone Vlad Dracula and his men tried to retake his father's Throne turns out it was a little more complicated than just walking in unannounced when the new ruler was away within 2 months John hyatti and vladislav return to wakia to kick Vlad Dracula out again he spends the next 8 years wandering
between different regions trying to build support to regain the throne during those 8 years the boyars begin to sour on their new guy vladislav because it turns out he's less corrupt than they thought this leads to the new king of Hungary working with Vlad Dracula to unseed him some sources say that Dracula challenges vladislav to a duel and kills him with his father's sword to retake the throne but in any event Dracula is back as ruler of wakia he sends some of his men out to find the body of his brother they find his grave
and dig him up and report back to Dracula of the horrific burn marks on his skull near his eyes the stories of what the boyar had done to his family were true and Dracula decides that they must pay meanwhile the boyars were glad that vladislav was now gone back to business as usual but this flat Dracula guy he might not be too fond of them you know after all the killing his dad and brother stuff they debate whether or not to assassinate him but on Easter Sunday in 1457 Dracula invites the boyars to a feast
to celebrate the holy holiday they arrive thinking everything's cool now they're dressed in their best clothing and bring their wives and children to vlad's Castle the feast is laid out and it is amazing Vlad Dracula whines and dines them and they all eat until they're stuffed at the end of the meal Vlad stands and asks the boyars how many rulers have you seen in your lifetime the boyars feeling very comfortable begin to laugh 10 some say some say 20 the oldest of them say 30 even the kids chime in and say they've seen at least
seven different rulers the smile on Dracula's face slowly turns into a scowl he then asks the boyars how is it possible to have so many different rulers yet the boyars are are still the same immediately the dining hall is swarmed with Dracula's men they grab the boyars and lead them outside as the Nobles exit the castle they're horrified to see a line of pointed wooden Stakes protruding from the ground the oldest of the boyars are lifted up by Dracula's men and placed but first onto the sharp Stakes their families can do nothing but watch in
horror as the men thrash and scream in agony the lucky die instantly as gravity pulls their bodies towards the ground The Unlucky survived for days in ped with their feet dangling in the air the wives and children are then forced to March for 2 days without food or water to a Cliffside where they find nothing but a mountain of bricks they're told to carry the bricks to the top of the cliff and build Dracula's New Castle with no choice the wives and children work on the castle until they die of starvation or their bodies break
down from the intense labor and they fall off the cliff the castle called poonati was the inspiration for the home of the fictional vampire Dracula and its ruins can still be visited in Romania today number three basil II and SAR Samuel sometimes revenge is born from loyalty and honor like in the last story but sometimes it's simply a giant middle finger to someone who's made your life miserable for a long time and in this case it was one gruesome middle finger Basel II became the sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire at the young age of
18 and almost immediately was forced to deal with all kinds of [ __ ] many people within and around the Empire saw a young and inexperienced ruler and thought hey now might be a great time time for a good oldfashioned Uprising and rise up they did first basil was forced to deal with two Aristocrats who had quietly amassed armies within his Empire surprising many of his haters the young Emperor put down this rebellion and stabilized his country for the first time in years but the conflict inside his Empire was only the start of his long
list of issues there were also many groups outside of the Empire who were just as excited to test the young Emperor and try to take a piece of Byzantine for themselves and that brings us to the subject of this story in what is probably one of the most Savage acts of Revenge in human history and the reason basil II earned his metal nickname the bulgar Slayer while basil was busy sending his own citizens into permanent timeouts for their rebellions a man who eventually became known as SAR Samuel was busy rebuilding the Bulgarian Empire in the
Balkans the bulgarians under Samuel began taking Byzantine land and basil finally had time to deal with this Troublemaker over the next few decades through many battles basil and Samuel developed a deep hatred for one another and the heat only got hotter after the bulgarians killed one of Samuel's favorite generals Bates things were Now personal for Basil and on July 29th 1014 in the Battle of clayon Basil finally got the revenge he was looking for Basil soundly defeated Samuel and captured 15,000 of his men fueled by rage over the death of his friend Banes basil comes
up with a gruesome punishment that would inflict maximum pain and suffering on his rival first basil divided the prisoners into groups of 100 men next next he ordered his men to Blind 99 of the men in these groups using knives or burning hot metal rods one by one Bassel soldiers perform this horrific procedure on their prisoners and when they get to the last man in each group they leave him with one eye basil then sets them free and tells them to go back home the blinded men now completely dependent on the 150 spared with one
eye wander together in darkness and Agony back to their Homeland unable to ever fight again and destined to become burdens on Samuel's Society when he sees his men arrive home SAR Samuel is so horrified that he suffers a heart attack and passes away 2 Days Later number four Crum and nicop foros the first so we're going to stick in the same area as the last story but just roll back the clock a few centuries now that I think about it maybe that last story is a sort of Revenge for this story anyways let's just get
into it it's the turn of the 9th century and Bulgaria is under the rule of a con named crumb through his efforts Bulgaria has expanded its territory and is now a rival in terms of military power to its neighbor the once Invincible Eastern Roman Empire the Romans at this time had lost a bunch of territory and were also suffering from a lot of internal religious conflicts seeing this from the outside the bulgars were starting to test the borders between the two states just you know to see how strong the Romans really were the emperor of
the Eastern Roman Empire nikoros I did not like this and he was determined to show the world that the Romans had not fallen off he spends a year building an army and decides to invade Bulgaria to prove it and in 811 his campaign against Crum begins nicop foros and his army of around 20,000 men March into Bulgaria and initially Crum does not want to fight he tries to sue for peace but nicop foros taking this as a sign of weakness refuses and marches to plisa the capital of Bulgaria he fights Kum and his men for
the first time there and it's an easy Victory the bulgars are forced to retreat and they abandon PLA nicap forus and his men pillage the city they kill many citizens and take even more as slaves they even steal treasure from crum's Palace before setting the whole city on fire with this easy win nicop foros feels like he just cemented his goat status amongst Roman emperors Crum sends more Messengers to nicop foros trying to negotiate a peace deal but the Roman Emperor doesn't want to hear any of it in his mind he's already dominated Crum and
now he thinks he can conquer all of Bulgaria instead of heading back to Constantinople nicop foro stays with his men in Bulgaria and allows them to go out and start looting more towns and Villages Crum now rejected twice when he offered a peace decided that the Romans would need to learn not to with the bulgarians the hard way he rounds up his remaining men and takes them behind nicap foros and the pillaging Romans instead of engaging them headon he begins to secretly block off all the mountain passes they would need to return home to Constantinople
they then set a trap for the Romans in the vbit pass which was the shortest route the Romans could take to get home after a few months and no signs of crumb nicop foros decides his men have had enough and begins making the journey home through the vbit pass due to the narrowness of the trail his men are stretched out for miles at the end of the formation the men cannot see what's happening at the front deep in the past the Romans find their path is blocked and as they look up they're shocked to find
Crum and his men surrounding them from The High Ground as night falls the Romans set up camp and Crum and the bulgars tunt them throughout the night the taunting goes on for days and the Romans are losing morale as they begin to feel more like prey than Predators then on July 26th 811 Crum leads a charge and the bulgarians begin slaughtering the Roman soldiers Crum and his men go after nicop foros and kill him seeing this the rest of the Roman soldiers begin running in all directions many flee South and try to cross a river
but their heavy armor sinks them into the mud drowning them as more soldiers trample over them in a panic by the end of the day nearly the entire Roman army is dead the few that survive are all badly wounded including nicop horus's son who's now paralyzed from the neck down Crum orders his men to remove nicop horus's head he brings it home and boils it to remove its flesh leaving just his skull he then turns the skull into a decorative cup and coats it with silver he then uses this skull to toast his men for
their victory over the mighty Eastern Roman Empire and in future meetings with Roman diplomats he would force them to drink from this skull cup when they arrived metal thanks again to War Thunder for sponsoring this video play it for free on PC Playstation or Xbox and don't forget to click the link in the description below to get a massive bonus pack of awesome stuff anyways if you like these revenge stories you should check out this video too
