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Saturday 03 Mar 1900
Siege of Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa 30 October 1899 - 28 February 1900.
The British Government dispatched fifteen thousand soldiers in response to the unrest in Southern Africa. The Boer leadership's reply was to raise twenty-one thousand of their own men. Despite warnings by other senior British officers to keep British troops closer to the coast, Lieutenant General Sir George White moved his soldiers into the Natal Triangle.
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On this day
03 March
Saturday 03 Mar 1900
Siege of Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa 30 October 1899 - 28 February 1900.
The British Government dispatched fifteen thousand soldiers in response to the unrest in Southern Africa. The Boer leadership's reply was to raise twenty-one thousand of their own men. Despite warnings by other senior British officers to keep British troops closer to the coast, Lieutenant General Sir George White moved his soldiers into the Natal Triangle.
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03 March
Saturday 03 Mar 1900
Siege of Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa 30 October 1899 - 28 February 1900.
The British Government dispatched fifteen thousand soldiers in response to the unrest in Southern Africa. The Boer leadership's reply was to raise twenty-one thousand of their own men. Despite warnings by other senior British officers to keep British troops closer to the coast, Lieutenant General Sir George White moved his soldiers into the Natal Triangle.
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