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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=
(contracted; show full)olony  | 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 January 1900, [[Herman Albrecht]] and [[Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones]] (who both died), and [[James Edward Ignatius Masterson]].


== Medical treatment during the siege ==
Early in the siege an agreement between [[George White]] and [[Piet Joubert]] lead to the creation of the neutral ''Intombi Military Hospital'' some {{convert|5|km}} outside Ladysmith. Dirung the siege, the number of beds in the hospital camp grew from the initial 100 to a total of 1900. A total of 10673 admissions were received and treated at Intombi.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Watt|first=S|title=Intombi Military Hospital and Cemetery|journal=Military History Journal|publisher=Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging|volume=5|issue=6|url=http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol056sw.html}}</ref> One train per day was allowed to carry wounded from Ladysmith to Intombi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ladysmithhistory.com/a-to-z/intombi/|title=Intombi|publisher=LadysmithHistory.com|accessdate=2009-05-11}}</ref>⏎
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== Notable casualties during the siege ==
* [[Arthur Stark]], author of ''The Birds of South Africa'' was killed after being hit by an unexploded Boer shell in the Royal Hotel.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nevinson|first=Henry|title=Ladysmith - The Diary of a Siege|pages=106|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16603}}</ref>
* [[George Warrington Steevens]], British author and war correspondent, of enteric fever.

==See also==
*[[Battle of Ladysmith]]
*[[Relief of Ladysmith]]
(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]]

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