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Swedish General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (left) and Russian Czar Peter I, later known as “Peter the Great.” Charles XII found Lewenhaupt’s slow progress maddening. Charles decided to cross the Neman River, the third river barrier, by means of a coup de main that reflected the king’s own personality: bold, innovative, and in some respects ...
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The Battle of Gemauerthof took place during the Great Northern War, fought south of Riga near Jelgava, in present-day Latvia in July 1705. The Swedish forces under Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt fought a Russian army under Boris Sheremetev.
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Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, född 15 april 1659 i fältlägret utanför Köpenhamn, död 12 februari 1719 i Moskva, var en svensk greve, riksråd och general. Han var gift med sin kusin Brita Dorothea Lewenhaupt (1663–1730) och ägare till Johannesbergs slott i Gottröra.
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Count Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (Leijonhufvud in Swedish) (1659 - 1719) was a Swedish General of the Infantry, a well educated and religious aristocrat who was born in a Swedish fortified camp near Copenhagen. He was the son of Count Ludwig Wierich Lewenhaupt, a major-general, and Countess Charlotta Susanna Maria of Hohenlohe and Gleichen.
Aug 11, 2022 · A compilation of the memoirs of Swedish General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt. This collects Enwäldets skadeliga påfölgder och aggets bittra frugter in its entirety in plaintext and the appendices published in the 1903 edition of Karolinska krigares dagböcker. See the foreword for further information.
LEWENHAUPT, lā′ven-houpt, Adam Ludvig (1659-1719). A Swedish general. A Swedish general. He was born near Copenhagen; studied at Upsala, Lund, Rostock, and Wittenberg; served in the Austrian army against the Turks, and under William III. in Holland; and in 1697 returned to Sweden.