In 1675, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire instructed his army to attack a fortress belonging to the Zaporozhian Cossacks. They were quickly and heavily defeated. Rather than surrender, the Sultan then wrote to the Cossacks and demanded that they submit to him. This fiery exchange was the result.
I came across this last night and didn’t want to lose it. Taken from what is evidently a literary forgery, but wonderful for its insult-comedy language. Capaldi is a perfect choice and gives it the full medieval Malcolm Tucker.
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