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Swedish general
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt
(15 April 1659 ? 12 February 1719) was a
Swedish
general
, particularly known for his participation in the
Great Northern War
.
Biography
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He was born on 15 April 1659 in a Swedish
fortified camp near Copenhagen
. He attended
Lund University
,
Rostock
,
Wittenberg
and
Uppsala
, he originally pursued a career in the diplomatic arena, but found this occupation quite undesirable. He then became a soldier, served in the
Austrian Army
against the
Turks
, and later in the
Dutch Army
under
William III
in
Holland
. He returned to Sweden in 1697. When the
Great Northern War
broke out, he was placed in command of a newly created regiment of
infantry
. He was one of the few successful commanders against the Russians in the Baltic region while
King Charles XII
was on
campaign in Poland and Saxony
. In 1705, Lewenhaupt won the
battle of Gemauerthof
and was appointed
Governor of Riga
. In 1708, he was ordered to march east with a supply column, to support Charles's primary
invasion
force in Russia. This led to the
battle of Lesnaya
(1708), in which he was defeated and forced to abandon his supplies. In 1709, after having connected with the King's army, Lewenhaupt was given command of the infantry at the disastrous
battle of Poltava
(1709) and the
surrender at Perevolochna
. He was kept a prisoner in Russia, and he lived in
Moscow
until his death on 12 February 1719.
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Legacy
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His memoirs, edited by his son-in-law, were published at
Stockholm
in 1757.
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