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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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While Buller made repeated attempts to fight his way across the Tugela, the defenders of Ladysmith suffered increasingly from shortage of food and other supplies, and from disease, mainly [[enteric fever]] or typhoid, which claimed among many others, the life of noted war correspondent [[George 
Warrington Steevens|G.W. Steevens]]. The Boers had long before captured Ladysmith's water supply, and the defenders could use only the polluted [[Klip River]]. The situation was reportedly made worse by maladministration and peculation by senior medical and supply officers.

(contracted; show full)[[Category:Battles of the Second Boer War|Ladysmith, Siege of]]
[[Category:Sieges involving the United Kingdom|Ladysmith]]
[[Category:1899 in South Africa]]

[[es:Sitio de Ladysmith]]
[[fr:Siège de Ladysmith]]
[[no:Beleiringen av Ladysmith]]
[[pl:Oblężenie Ladysmith]]