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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) South Africa by steamship. Some of these troops were diverted while returning to Britain from [[British India|India]], others were sent from garrisons in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. Lieutenant General Sir [[George Stuart White|George White]] was appointed to command this enlarged force. White was 64 years old, and suffered from a leg injury incurred in a riding accident. Having served mainly in India, he had little previous experience of South Africa.

==Outbreak of war==
{{main|Battle of Talana Hill
}}
{{main|Battle of Elandslaagte}}
{{main|Battle of Ladysmith}}

Contrary to the advice of several British officials such as Sir [[Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner|Alfred Milner]], the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, the Boer governments were not over-awed by the despatch of British troops to Natal. Instead, they regarded it as evidence of Britain's determination to seize control of the Boer republics. The Transvaal government under President [[Paul Kruger]] considered launching an attack in September, but President [[Martinus Theuni(contracted; show full)[[Category:Sieges involving the United Kingdom|Ladysmith]]
[[Category:1899 in South Africa]]
[[Category:Sieges of the Second Boer War]]

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