The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer" id="mwSw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boer">Boers</a> begin their 118-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ladysmith" id="mwTA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Ladysmith">siege</a> of British-held <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladysmith,_KwaZulu-Natal" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal">Ladysmith</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>.<sup about="#mwt50" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_2#cite_note-8" id="mwTw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUA">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt47" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMacDonald1900">MacDonald, Donald (1900). <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/howwekeptflagfl00macdgoog/page/n46/mode/2up" id="mwCBU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCBY">How We Kept the Flag Flying: The Story of the Siege of Ladysmith</i></a>. Ward, Lock &amp; Co. p.<span id="mwCBc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>41. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCBg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCBk" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9785873791002" id="mwCBo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9785873791002"><bdi id="mwCBs">9785873791002</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt47" class="Z3988" id="mwCBw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=How+We+Kept+the+Flag+Flying%3A+The+Story+of+the+Siege+of+Ladysmith&amp;rft.pages=41&amp;rft.pub=Ward%2C+Lock+%26+Co.&amp;rft.date=1900&amp;rft.isbn=9785873791002&amp;rft.aulast=MacDonald&amp;rft.aufirst=Donald&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhowwekeptflagfl00macdgoog%2Fpage%2Fn46%2Fmode%2F2up&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANovember+2"></span></span>