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===Battle of Lewes===
{{Main article|Battle of Lewes}}

During the [[Second Barons' War]], [[Henry III of England|King Henry III]] was ambushed at Lewes by a force of rebel barons led by [[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester|Simon de Montfort]]. Henry marched out to fight de Montfort, leading to a pitched battle on the hills above the town (roughly in the area of modern Landport Bottom). The king's son [[Edward I of England|Prince Edward]], commanding the right wing of the royal army, succeeded in driving off some of the baronial forces, but he got carried away with the pursuit, which took him as far as [[Hamsey|Offham]]. In Edward's absence the remainder of the royal army was attacked by de Montfort and [[Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester|Gilbert de Clare]] and decisively defeated. The king's brother [[Richard of Cornwall]] was captured, and the king himself was forced to sign the [[Mise of Lewes]], a document which does not survive but was probably aimed at forcing Henry to uphold the [[Provisions of Oxford]]. Despite this uncertainty about its consequences, the battle is often seen as an important milestone in the development of English democracy.
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27373398 |title=Battle of Lewes: England's first fight for democracy? |website=BBC News |date=14 May 2014 |access-date=23 January 2021 |archive-date=30 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130215124/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27373398 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.military-history.org/articles/simon-de-montfort-lewes-evesham-parliamentary-democracy.htm |title=Simon de Montfort, the Battles of Lewes and Evesham, and the birth of parliamentary democracy |website=Military History Matters |date=15 June 2017 |access-date=23 January 2021 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126182129/https://www.military-history.org/articles/simon-de-montfort-lewes-evesham-parliamentary-democracy.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>