[spankalib]

twenty thousand dead Turks surrounded the city, impaled on stakes.

Wow. For an idea of what that looked like, think of Kentucky’s Rupp Arena filled to capacity.

[DuncanWaring]

Alternatively, if the stakes were in rows and columns 10’ apart, it would cover a square roughly a quarter-mile on a side.

[SunkenCiv]

That was a nice touch — “no, really, c’mon inside, we’ll welcome you appropriately.”