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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)ransvaal 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 deploy his force far back, well clear of the area of northern Natal known as the "Natal Triangle", a wedge of land lying between the two Boer republics.<ref>Pakenham, pp.97, 107</ref> Instead, White deployed his forces around the garrison 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 detachm(contracted; show full)[[Category:Histories of cities in South Africa]]


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