<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War" id="mwrg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>: Having already <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ladysmith" id="mwrw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Ladysmith">besieged</a> the fortress at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladysmith,_KwaZulu-Natal" id="mwsA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal">Ladysmith</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer" id="mwsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boer">Boer</a> forces attack it, but are driven back by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" id="mwsg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">British</a> defenders.<sup about="#mwt113" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_6#cite_note-21" id="mwsw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwtA">[21]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"><cite about="#mwt110" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMahan2007"><a href="./Alfred_Thayer_Mahan" id="mwCTM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alfred Thayer Mahan">Mahan, Alfred Thayer</a> (2007). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tseD29KgtQEC&amp;pg=PT140" id="mwCTQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCTU">Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900</i></a>. Library of Alexandria. p.<span id="mwCTY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>140. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCTc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCTg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-4655-4730-9" id="mwCTk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4655-4730-9"><bdi id="mwCTo">978-1-4655-4730-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt110" class="Z3988" id="mwCTs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Story+of+the+War+in+South+Africa%2C+1899-1900&amp;rft.pages=140&amp;rft.pub=Library+of+Alexandria&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4655-4730-9&amp;rft.aulast=Mahan&amp;rft.aufirst=Alfred+Thayer&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DtseD29KgtQEC%26pg%3DPT140&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+6"></span></span>