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Colonel Smith Charles town with the constantly increasing Americans. At Lexington he was reinforced by 1,200 men under Lord Percy. The British lo was 273; the American lo , 88. The fighting at Concord is often called the battle of Con- cord, while the entire day's fighting is called the battle of Lexington. Population (1900), 3,831. Lexington. A city and the capital of Lafayette County, Mi ouri, situated on the Mi ouri 40 east by north of Kansas City. The Federals under Mulligan surrendered here to the Confederates under Price, Sept. 21, 1861. Population (1900), 4,190. Lexington. The capital of Rock bridge County, Virginia, situate do North River 10 miles west by north of Richmond. It is the seat of the Virginia Military Institute and of Washington and Lee University (which see). Population (1900), 3,203. foaled in 1851. Lexington. A famous American bay race-horse, Lexinton, or Le ing ton n (les ́ing-ton), Stephen de. Lived about the middle of the 13th century. An English ecclesiastic, abbot of Stanley in Wilts hire, later abbot of Savigny in Normandy (1229) and (1243) of Clairvaux. Lexovii (leks-ō'vi-i). In ancient history, a Cel- tic people in northern Gaul, which lived near the English Channel west of the Seine. Ley (le), James. Born 1550: died March 14, 1629. An English jurist and politician, created first Earl of Marl borough Feb. 5, 1626. He was ap- pointed lord chief justice of the King's Bench for Ireland in 1604, lord chief justice of England 1622, and lord high treasurer 1624. He succeeded Bacon as speaker of the House of Lords, and pronounced the judgment of the Lords upon him. Leybourn (lē bern), William. Born 1626: died about 1700. An English surgeon and mathematician. He was the author, with Vincent Wing, of the first English treatise on astronomy, "Urania Practic a" (1648). He also published “Planometria” (1650: repub- lished as "The Complete Surveyor" 1653), "Arithmetick, Vulgar, Decimal, and Instrumental" (1657), "Census Mathematic us" (1690), "Panarithmologia," the earliest English ready reckoner (1693), etc. Leycester (les'ter), Sir Peter. Born at Nether Tabley, Cheshire, March 3, 1614: died there, Oct. 11, 1678. An English antiquary, author of "Historical Antiquities" of Great Britain and Weimar 1792-93; became an attaché of the British legation Ireland and particularly of Cheshire (1653) at The Hague 1794; sat in the House of Commons 1796-1802; and went to Jamaica (where he owned property) Nov., 1815, and again toward the end of 1817. He also wrote "Village Virtues," a satire (1796), "The Castle Spectre" (acted at Drury Lane Dec. 14, 1797), "Tales of Horror" (1799), "Alphonso, King of Castile," a a tragedy (1801), "Adelgitha," a tragedy (acted at Drury Lane April 30, 1807), etc. Lewis, Meri wether. Born near Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 18, 1774: committed suicide near Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 8, 1809. An American explorer, joint commander with Clark of an exploring expedition in the northwestern part of the United States 1804-06. Lewis, Morgan. Born at New York, Oct. 16, 1754: died at New York, April 7, 1844. An American general, jurist, and politician, son of Francis Lewis: governor of New York 1805-06. Lewis, Tayler. Born at North umber land, N. Y., March 27, 1802: died at Schenectady, N. Y., May 11, 1877. An American scholar and author. He became profe or of Greek at the University of New York in 1838, and at Union College in 1849. Among his works are "Six Days of Creation" (1855), "The Bible and Science" (1856), "The Divine Human in the Scripture" (1860). Leyden, or Leiden (li'den). A city in the province of South Holland, Netherlands, situated on the Old Rhine 6 miles from the North Sea and 22 miles southwest of Amsterdam: the Roman Lugdunum Batavorum, and the medieval Leithen. It was the birthplace of Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Gerard Douw, and other painters. The university, founded in 1575, is attended by about 1,000 students, and has valuable museums of natural history, ethnography, archæ ology, etc., an observatory, and a library of 200,000 volumes. Other objects of interest are the Stadhuis, Church of St. Pancras, Church of St. Peter, the mound Burg, Museum of Antiquities, Natural History Museum, Municipal Museum, Ethnographical Museum, and Botanic Leyden was formerly noted for its cloth manufacture: was unsuc ce fully besieged by the Spaniards in 1573-74; and was the residence of the Pilgrim Fathers 1609-20. Population (1900), 54,421. Leyden, John. Born at Denholm, Roxburghshire, Sept. 8, 1775: died at Batavia, Java, Aug. 28, 1811. A noted Scottish poet, physician, and Orientalist. He was appointed a istant surgeon at Madras 1803; traveled extensively in India; settled in Calcutta in 1806; was made a ay-master of the mint there in 1810; and went to Java in 1811, where he died. The Century Cyclopedia of Names Leyden, John He published "A Historical and Philosophical Sketch of the Discoveries and Settlements of the Europe ans in Northern and Western Africa at the Close of the Eighteenth Cen tury" (1799), an "E ay on the Languages and Literature of the Indo-Chinese Nations" (in "Asiatic Researches"), etc. His poetical remains were published in 1819.