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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Siege of Ladysmith
|partof=[[Second Boer War]]
|image=[[Image:Ladysmith Town Hall 1900 - Project Gutenberg eText 15972.png|300px]]
|caption=The town hall at Ladysmith, showing shell damage to the tower.
|date=[[2 November]] [[1899]] - [[28 February]] [[1900]]
|place=[[Ladysmith, South Africa|Ladysmith]], [[Colony of Natal|Natal]], [[South Africa]]
|casus=
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==Aftermath== 
The relief was widely celebrated,<ref name="NYT1900">{{Citation  | title = Small Riots In Cape Colony  | newspaper = The New York Times  | pages = p. 2  | year = 1900  | date = Wednesday, 5 March 1900 | url = http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A05E6DE1339E733A25756C0A9659C946197D6CF }}</ref> followed 
much theby much larger celebrations after [[Siege of Mafeking]]. There were four [[Victoria Cross|Victoria Crosses]] awarded during the siege, [[John Norwood]] on 30 October 1899. At Wagon Hill on 6 January 1900, [[Herman Albrecht]] and [[Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones]] (who both died), and [[James Edward Ignatius Masterson]].

==See also==
*[[Military history of South Africa]]

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[[Category:Battles of the Second Boer War|Ladysmith, Siege of]]
[[Category:Sieges involving the United Kingdom|Ladysmith]]

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[[no:Beleiringen av Ladysmith]]
[[pl:Oblężenie Ladysmith]]