Ladysmith

Ladysmith, a small town in Natal (named from a colonial governor's wife), 140 miles N.W. of Durban by rail. On the outbreak of the Transvaal War in 1899 it, including the army of Sir George White, was invested by the Boer forces, and after a siege of one hundred and twenty days, was finally relieved by Sir Redvers Buller on 28th February 1900. Pop. about 2000.