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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Siege of Ladysmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Siege of Ladysmith was a famous battle in the Boer War, taking place between 2 November 1899 and 28 February 1900.
		The 120day siege of the town, lasting from 2 November 1899 to 28 February 1900, so captivated people's imaginations that songs were composed, poems written and every incident of the ordeal reported in the newspapers of the day.
		Ladysmith was central to the struggle for Natal during the Anglo-Boer war, and for 118 days was besieged by the Boers during which time the name Ladysmith featured in press headlines around the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Siege-of-Ladysmith (446 words)

	Siege of Ladysmith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siege of Ladysmith was a protracted engagement in the Second Boer War, taking place between 30 October 1899 and 28 February 1900.
		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.
		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").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Ladysmith (1194 words)

	Richard Harding Davis, With Both Armies: Chapter II.
		For a garrison at Ladysmith is in a strategic position not unlike that of a bear in a bear-pit at which the boys around the top of the pit are throwing shells instead of buns.
		Ladysmith might have been burned, few stores would have been looted, but corrugated iron, which is the chief architectural feature of Ladysmith is cheap, and the shop-owners could not have lost much more by Boer looting than they did by Boer shells.
		In the Ladysmith Lyre and in the Bomb-shell Poems, written and printed during the siege, one obtains some very interesting side-lights on the state of mind of those who were then languishing in the "Doomed City," as was its premature epitaph.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /davis-chapter-02.htm (3269 words)

	Islands Info Guide to Island Information Worldwide
		Ladysmith BC on Vancouver Island is only a 85 km (53 mi) drive north of Victoria BC on Hwy 1...a short trip filled with ocean and mountain views.
		Ladysmith was originally known as Oyster Bay, formed in the late 1800s...then came the coal mining and logging industries.
		Ladysmith was used as a dormitory and recreation complex for the miners and their families and as a shipping port for coal from the Extension Mines in Nanaimo.
	www.islandsinfo.com /article_ladysmith.htm (655 words)

	Conan-Doyle, The Great Boer War: Chapter IV: The Eve of War
		Ladysmith lies in a hollow and is dominated by a ring of hills, some near and some distant.
		After the battle of Ladysmith and the retreat of the British, the Boers in their deliberate but effective fashion set about the investment of the town, while the British commander accepted the same as inevitable, content if he could stem and hold back from the colony the threatened flood of invasion.
		Far away at Ladysmith, the weary men and their sorely tried officers gathered to return thanks to God for His manifold mercies, but in London also hearts were stricken solemn by the greatness of the crisis, and lips long unused to prayer joined in the devotions of the absent warriors.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /conan-doyle-chapter-13.htm (7900 words)

	The Siege of Ladysmith - The Boer War
		The British in Ladysmith, and in Kimberley and Mafeking, were fortunate that the nature of the Boer commando made it an inappropriate instrument to conduct a siege.
		As the extent of the defeat at Colenso sank in, the spirits of the Ladysmith garrison fell.
		An account of the siege and capture of Plevna written by a young half English officer, Frederick Von Herbert, who held a junior command in the Turkish Army during the siege, was widely read in Britain and elsewhere.
	www.britishbattles.com /great-boer-war/siege-ladysmith.htm (2665 words)

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		The defenders of Ladysmith being unaware of the fact that any of their own troops were in front of them, and mistaking friend for foe, got down on their knees to fire as the companies of the Devons appeared in sight.
		CHAPTER II SIEGE OF LADYSMITH 1899-1900 The siege of Ladysmith had now commenced; communication to the south was interrupted on November 2nd, and on the same day the Boers had their guns in action on Bulwana Mountain and were shelling the works and town freely.
		On March 10th the Ladysmith garrison was reorganized, the battalion being placed in the 7th Brigade with the Gordon Highlanders, the Manchester Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/9/7/15972/15972-8.txt (21727 words)

	Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
		Located on the 49th parallel, Ladysmith is a picturesque town built on the hillside overlooking the glistening waters of Ladysmith Harbour.
		When Dunsmuir received word on March 1, 1900 that the British forces had finally relieved their besieged countrymen in Ladysmith, in the Natal Province of South Africa, he named the new town Ladysmith and many local streets were named after British Generals who served in the Anglo Boer War.
		South of Ladysmith is the Mount Brenton Golf Club on Henry Road in Chemainus, a challenging par-71 golf course, with tree-lined fairways and spectacular greens.
	www.ladysmithbc.com (938 words)

	Anglo Boer War (1899-1900): The Siege and Relief of Ladysmith
		Then the apparently invincible British garrison in Ladysmith, under the command of General Sir George White, suffered a humiliating defeat at the battle of Nicholson's Nek with over 1000 casualties, most of whom were taken prisoner.
		In addition, the Boers had cut the fresh water supply quite early in the siege and the only water available was from the Klipriver, which became contaminated and was the cause of the high incidence of deaths from Enteric and other diseases.
		Several "brushes" with the enemy were to become synonymous with the siege of Ladysmith.
	www.vancouverisland.com /general/details.asp?id=18 (608 words)

	29043 Sapper Robert William Hunt, Royal Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ladysmith, which occupied so important a place in the early part of the war, had been originally selected in 1897 as the station for part of the British forces in Natal, because it occupied a convenient position at a railway junction.
		From Glencoe the Ladysmith garrison was reinforced by the 13th, 67th, and 69th Field Batteries, Royal Artillery, the 18th Hussars, an additional force of Natal Mounted Volunteers, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, 1st and 2nd Battalions King's Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd Battalion Dublin Fusiliers, several companies of Mounted Infantry, and a Field Hospital Corps unit.
		Ladysmith at the commencement of the siege held some 13,496 fighting men and over 2,000 civilians.
	hometown.aol.com /reubique/29043.htm (8275 words)

	South Africa Day3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The mounted Boer commandos immediately swept into the British Colony of Natal and pushing back the British troops in only 21 days, they were at the doors of the town of Ladysmith, the last major obstacle facing the Boers before they reached the coast.
		The British troops, under the command of General Sir George White, were told that their duty was to stand firm in the town and to prevent it from being taken.
		For more than 100 days the siege continued, the daily tedium, the fighting, the sniping, the lack of food, the disgust at having to eat their own horses.
	www.roguery.com /safrica/ladysmith.htm (210 words)

	Ladysmith - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is the distribution center for the surrounding agricultural and coal-mining region.
		Ladysmith was founded in 1851 by Boers (Afrikaners) who had been persuaded by British governor Sir Harry Smith to remain in Natal rather than join the Trek to other areas.
		During the South African War, Sir George White's British forces at Ladysmith were under siege by Boers from Nov., 1899, to Feb., 1900, when British reinforcements arrived.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ladysmi.html (363 words)

	Battle of Ladysmith - The Boer War
		By the end of the war the uniform of choice was a slouch hat, drab tunic and trousers; the danger of shiny buttons and too ostentatious emblems of rank emphasised in several engagements with disproportionately high officer casualties.
		Waiting in Ladysmith amidst the increasing civilian panic at the Boer artillery barrage, White received a trickle of indicators from stray mule drivers and British gunners that Carleton’s force, away on the left flank holding the gap at Nicholson’s Nek, was in trouble.
		Denys Reitz makes the point that the siege of Ladysmith was a major distraction for the Boers from the main task of invading Natal.
	www.britishbattles.com /great-boer-war/ladysmith.htm (1769 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- The key to Ladysmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Both are also highly symbolical, portraying Ladysmith as a goodlooking woman (with the name 'Ladysmith' written on her skirt or beneath her feet) and an archtypal Boer soldier.
		Furthermore, as the news from Ladysmith was very limited, the European press seldom mentioned the hardships the population had to endure and preferred to speculate on when the town would be relieved or would fall and what would happen thereafter.
		He apparently did not think that Ladysmith was worth all the hardships which they had to endure and probably thought the town was just a trivial political symbol which was responsible for the deaths of too many 'poor lads'.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol094gt.html (2483 words)

	The Siege of Ladysmith
		As the Boer advance into the Natal Colony continued from the north, Ladysmith was directly in its path and was the primary focus of the British forces in the area.
		By 2 November 1899, Ladysmith was effectively besieged, and the first Long Tom shell caused much panic and alarm, many inhabitants took shelter in hollows in the banks of the Klip River, which flows through the town.
		Ladysmith was finally relieved after a siege that had lasted 118 days.
	ladysmith.kzn.org.za /ls/42.xml (939 words)

	Ladysmith, Natal Battlefields Route - Stay in South Africa for 2010 Accommodation
		Ladysmith is also famous for the architecture of its electricity substations.
		Three were employed in the siege of Ladysmith and one in the siege of Mafeking.
		Ladysmith is blessed with an array electrical substations of a wide variety of architectural types - so much so that there is a trail on which visitors may make the most of them.
	www.warthog.co.za /dedt/tourism/battlefields/towns/ladysmith.htm (1682 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Game ended with a Boer victory as the first siege check against empire morale resulted in a British surrender, which in turn further lowered morale and resulted in every other siege ending in surrender.
		In order to maintain the siege at Ladysmith the Boers committed up to 40 sp, attacking and defending in turn against Bullers' relieving force.
		At this point the British are accepting sieges as the anticipated increase in Empire morale from the fall of the capitals will guarantee that each besieged city will not surrender.
	grognard.com /reviews1/bitte1.txt (2542 words)

	Historical Ladysmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There is a great deal of history in the story of Ladysmith - an important rail junction, coaching stop for the mining magnates between Durban and Johannesburg, and supply town for the agricultural community.
		Perhaps the most important and interesting part of this history is to be found in the superb Siege Museum at the Town Hall.
		The cannon below, in the courtyard of the museum, is a replica of the famous 'Long Tom' used by the Boers during the siege.
	www.royalhotel.co.za /history.htm (264 words)

	Royal Hotel - Ladysmith - Accommodation in Ladysmith
		The Royal Hotel is a stately hotel, located in the centre of the town of Ladysmith, KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa approximately Midway between Johannesburg and Durban.
		The street-front facade and carved front door date back to the late 1800's, and remain the same today as they were during the whole of the famous 118 day Ladysmith siege.
		Mohandas Ghandi was a stretcher bearer with General Buller's relief forces at the end of the siege.
	www.places.co.za /html/9244.html (728 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews: Reviews of Recent Fiction and Nonfiction
		Whereas in his first novel, The Last King of Scotland, the evil wreaking havoc in Uganda came from the inside in the form of dictator Idi Amin, in Ladysmith it is a convergence of two forces that are both foreign to the continent that devastates both the land and the people.
		Ladysmith plants the reader firmly in history, introducing both Winston Churchill and Mohandas Gandhi as characters early on, and dragging its tale through the 120-day siege of Ladysmith, a stronghold that was pivotal to the proliferation of the British empire.
		Winding through the history are the stories of those caught up in the siege, told from perspectives including a British soldier, a Boer doctor, a Portuguese barber, a Zulu mine worker and his wife and son, an English journalist and biographer, and the daughter of an Irish innkeeper.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-05-19/books_roundup7.html (465 words)

	The Boer War 1899-1902
		Bombardment of Ladysmith Anticipated: The Diary of a Siege
		In his diary, the daily tedium, the fighting, the sniping, the lack of food, the disgust at having to eat their own horses, all are described in fascinating detail.
		And all this against the background of the British attempts to relieve the siege.
	www.cs.bris.ac.uk /~alan/boer.html (303 words)

	Ladysmith, South Africa
		Ladysmith is a lively town on the main road between Durban and the Transvaal, situated in a thriving agricultural area (maize, soya, barley, fruit and vegetables; stock-farming).
		The first European settlers in the area founded the town in 1847, declaring it capital of the Klip River Republic.
		During the Boer War (1899-1902) Ladysmith was under siege by the Boers for 120 days before being relieved by General Sir Redvers Buller.
	www.planetware.com /south-africa/ladysmith-saf-kz-ls.htm (153 words)

	Books and Documents pertaining to the Boer War
		It was a meeting with actor Kenneth Griffith in 1967 while he was making the film on the Siege of Ladysmith for the BBC that inspired Hackett to collect boer war books.
		Ladysmith - the diary of a siege - H W Nevinson - 1900
		This fabulous diary gives a very insightful look into the siege of Ladysmith, the impact of the big boer guns and their 96lb shells on the small town and the battles and skirmishes that took place during the siege.
	www.tokencoins.com /book/boer.htm (2240 words)

	The Great Boer War - The Siege Of Ladysmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As it was, the inner line--Caesar's Camp, Wagon Hill, Rifleman's Post, and round to Helpmakaar Hill--made a perimeter of fourteen miles, and the difficulty of retaining so extensive a line goes far to exonerate General White, not only for abandoning the outer hills, but also for retaining his cavalry in the town.
		With rain overhead and mud underfoot, chafing at their own idleness and humiliated by their own position, the soldiers waited through the weary weeks for the relief which never came.
		He himself moved up to Frere, where he devoted his time and energies to the collection of that force with which he was destined, after three failures, to make his way into Ladysmith.
	www.free-ebooks-uk.netfirms.com /great-boer-war/13-the-siege-of-ladysmith.html (7877 words)

	Tameside Ladysmith Link
		The links between Tameside and Ladysmith grew out of the significant role played by the Manchester Regiment during the siege of the town and its subsequent relief in February 1900.
		The people of Ladysmith arranged a comprehensive programme of events between October 1999 and February 2000 to commemorate the siege and relief.
		Suggested areas for development include the development of a joint web-site based on the siege of Ladysmith and the Anglo Boer War generally.
	www.tameside.gov.uk /corpgen1/ladysmth.htm (173 words)

	Portsmouth Imaging Club - Gallery - Glass Plates - Boer War, Chapter Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The main body of the army, with its miles of transport waggons, followed, and at this point, on January 16th, General Lyttelton's Brigade crossed safely to the north bank of the Tugela.
		We have here some of the gallant defenders of Ladysmith, sailors from the "Powerful" with their guns mounted on the special carriage designed by Captain Percy Scott.
		Lord Dundonald with a small column of mounted infantry entered Ladysmith on the night of the 28th, and it is needless to describe the joy with which they were received.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /trevor.muston/pages/PIC/picgalleryBoer2.htm (1131 words)

	Portsmouth Imaging Club - Gallery - Glass Plates - Boer War, Chapter One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On October 21st at Elandslaagte, a village an hours ride from historic Ladysmith, a brilliant victory was gained by General French the dashing cavalry leader who has so greatly distinguished himself in the war.
		The Boers were driven from a very strong position on a chain of hills by the gallant Gordons and the Devonshire Regiment, and after a desperate struggle at close quarters, as shown in our picture, they broke and fled, hotly pursued by the British cavalry.
		In one of these, the affair at Nicholson's Nek, about 1000 men of the Irish Fusiliers and the Gloucester regiment were taken prisoners, whilst on November 2nd the telegraph wires were cut and the town completely isolated.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /trevor.muston/pages/PIC/picgalleryBoer1.htm (1130 words)

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