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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
{{Fact|reason=The water is known to be heavy with suspended mud, but that does not equate to pollution. Muddy may be more correctly descriptive}} [[Klip River]]. The situation was reportedly made worse by maladministration and peculation by senior medical and supply officers.

Towards the end of the siege, the garrison and townsfolk were living largely on their remaining draught oxen and horses (mainly in the form of "chevril", a meat paste named after the better known beef extract commercially named "[[Bovril]]").

(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]]