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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)l government under President [[Paul Kruger]] considered launching an attack in September, but President [[Martinus Theunis Steyn|Steyn]] of the Orange Free State, who would go on to become the spiritual heart of the Boer resistance, dissuaded them for several weeks while he tried to act as intermediary. With the complete breakdown in negotiations, both republics declared war and attacked on 12 October.

A total of 21,000 Boers advanced into Natal from all sides.<ref>Pakenham, p.106</ref> White 
had been advised to deployed his force far back, well clear ofs around the garea of northern Natal known as the "Natal Triangle", a wedge of land lying between the two Boer republics.  Instead, White deployed his forces around the garrison town of [[Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal|Ladysmith]],rison town of [[Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal|Ladysmith]],<ref name="TLO2-C3">{{cite book|coauthors=Durand, Henry Mortimer; White, George Stuart|title=The life of Field-Marshal Sir George White, V.C. |publisher=W. Blackwood|location=Edinburgh, London|date=1915|volume=Volume II|pages=pp. 17-27|chapter=III - Arrival in South Africa|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeoffieldmarsh02durauoft#page/17/mode/1up|accessdate=2009-12-01}}</ref> with a detachment even further forward at [[Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal|Dundee]]. The entire British force could concentrate only after fighting two battles at [[Battle of Talana Hill|Talana Hill]] and [[Battle of Elandslaagte|Elandslaagte]]. As the Boers surrounded Ladysmith, White ordered a sortie by his entire force to capture the Boer artillery. The result was the disastrous [[Battle of Ladysmith]], in which the British were driven back into the town having lost 1,200 men killed, wounded or captured.

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