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[Dracula] What was Dracula doing between the 15th century and 1897?

Okay we don't know exactly when he was born/turned but he's clearly very old. My question is why did wait so long to decide to go to the most powerful country in the world? Has he tried before? Was he just playing the usual game the nobility plays?
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Dracula is described as a military genius, fierce warrior, cunning diplomat, and accomplished scholar. In particular, he studied black magic and alchemy, the "highest science" of his day. 

In the early years of his vampirism, he probably continued this tradition, studying dark magics, the newest sciences, and any other subjects that crossed his fancy. He also continued to build great wealth, and cement his political control of his region of the Carpathians.

When we first met Dracula in the novel, however, he is in decline. He is still wealthy, but his influence is limited to essentially a single village, and his physical appearance is that of an old, withered man. He has apparently spent his long years living as a parasite off the people of Transylvania and engaging in petty cruelties.

We don't know the specific details, but something must have stirred Dracula, made him remember his former glory and the power he wielded. He realizes that Great Britain now occupies the position of power he once imagined as his, and sets out to restore himself, and most likely take over the world.