LEWENHAUPT, latven-houpt, ADAM LVDVIG (1659-1719). A Swedish general. He was horn near Copenhagen; studied • at Ppsala, Lund, Rostock. and Wittenberg; served in the Austrian army against the Turks, and under William TIT. in Holland; and in 1697 returned to Sweden. In the war waged by Charles XII. against Peter the Great and his allies he was intrusted with the defense of Courland. and defeated the enemy in several engagements (1703-05). Lewenhaupt fought bravely at Poltava in 1709, and after that disastrous battle was forced to surrender the remnant of the Swedish forces to the Russians. He was kept a prisoner in Russia, and he lived in Moscow until his death, in 1719. His memoirs, edited by his son-in-law, were published at Stock holm in 1757.
LEWES, 10'is. The capital of Sussex. Eng land, on the Ouse, 50 miles south of London, and 7 miles from Newhaven, its port (Map: England.
U 6). It contains the ruins of a Cluniae priory founded in 1078, and a free grammar school founded and endowed in 1512. It has also a school of science and art, a free library, a county hall, and a town ball. There are large annual sheep fairs. Near Mount Ilarry-on-the-Downs occurred the battle of Lewes, in which Henry III. was defeated (slay 14, 1264) by the insurgent barons under Simon de Montfort. Lewes is of remote origin. Roman coins have been discovered in the neighborhood, and there are traces of an cient mounds. It was a royal demesne of the South Saxon rulers, and mints were established there by Athelstan. Population, in 1891, 10,997; in 1901, 11,200. Consult: florsfield. History of Lewes (2 vols., Lewes, 1824-'27); Mantel]. The Ancient Town, of Lewes (London, 1846).