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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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The first party of the relief column, under Major [[Hubert Gough]] and which [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]] claims to have been a part of, rode in on the evening of 28 February.<ref> Churchill, W.S. ''London to Ladysmith via Pretoria'', London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1900, p. 208-10 </ref> White reportedly greeted them saying, "Thank God we kept the flag flying".
<ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A0DE4DE1339E733A25755C0A9659C946197D6CF|title=BOER TRAITS AND BRITISH TRAITS.|date=1900-03-06|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=2009-05-11}}</ref>

==Aftermath==
The relief was widely celebrated,<ref name="NYT1900">{{Citation  | title = Small Riots In Cape Colony  | newspaper = The New York Times  | pages = p. 2  | date = 5 March 1900 | url = http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A05E6DE1339E733A25756C0A9659C946197D6CF }}</ref> followed by much larger celebrations after [[Siege of Mafeking]]. There were four [[Victoria Cross]]es awarded during the siege, [[John Norwood]] on 30 October 1899. At Wagon Hill on 6 Januar(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]]