Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith

The first siege-baby--An Irish-American deserter--A soldierly grumble--Boer cunning and Staff-College strategy--An ammunition difficulty--The tireless cavalry--A white flag inci...

Why the Boers attacked--Interesting versions--A general surprise--Joubert's promise--Boer tactics reconsidered--Erroneous estimates--Under cover of night--A bare-footed advance-...

Moral effects of shell-fire--General White appeals to Joubert--The neutral camp--Attitude of civilians--Meeting at the Town Hall--A veteran's protest--Faith in the Union Jack--A...

The Town-Guard called out--Echoes of Colenso--Heliograms from Buller--The Boers and Dingaan's Day--Disappointing news--Special correspondents summoned--Victims of the bombardmen...

Retribution--Sir Archibald Hunter's bold scheme--A night attack--Silently through the darkness--At the foot of Gun Hill--A broken ascent--"Wie kom dar?" "The English are on us!"...

Husbanding supplies--Colonel Ward's fine work--Our Christmas market--A scanty show--Some startling prices--A word to cynics--The compounding of plum-puddings--The strict rules o...

Sir Redvers Buller's second attempt--A message from the Queen--Last sad farewells--Burial of Steevens and Lord Ava--At dead of night--Relief army north of the Tugela--Water diff...

The exodus of the townsfolk--Communications threatened--Slim Piet Joubert--Espionage in the town--Neglected precautions--A truce that paid--British positions described--Big guns...

Boer pæan of victory--Rations cut down--Sausage without mystery--The "helio" moves east--Sick and dying at Intombi--Famine prices at market--Laughter quits the camps--A kindly t...

Joubert's boast--The preliminaries of attack--Shells in the town--A simultaneous advance--Observation Hill threatened--A wary enemy--A prompt repulse--Attack on Tunnel Hill--The...

General White forced to fight--The order of battle--Leviathan--The Boers reinforced--A retrograde movement--How Marsden met his death--Naval guns in action--A night of disaster-...

The beginning of the end--Buller's last advance--Heroic Inniskillings--The coming of Dundonald--A welcome at Klip River Drift--A weather-stained horseman--The Natal troopers--Ch...

Before taking up the history of the siege proper it will be well here to pass briefly in review the events which led up to the isolation and investment of Ladysmith. When war wa...

The beginning of the end--Buller's last advance--Heroic Inniskillings--The coming of Dundonald--A welcome at Klip River Drift--A weather-stained horseman--The Natal troopers--Ch...

The first siege-baby--An Irish-American deserter--A soldierly grumble--Boer cunning and Staff-College strategy--An ammunition difficulty--The tireless cavalry--A white flag inci...

The Town-Guard called out--Echoes of Colenso--Heliograms from Buller--The Boers and Dingaan's Day--Disappointing news--Special correspondents summoned--Victims of the bombardmen...

Why the Boers attacked--Interesting versions--A general surprise-- Joubert's promise--Boer tactics reconsidered--Erroneous estimates-- Under cover of night--A bare-footed advanc...

Boer pæan of victory--Rations cut down--Sausage without mystery-- The "helio" moves east--Sick and dying at Intombi--Famine prices at market--Laughter quits the camps--A kindly...

Retribution--Sir Archibald Hunter's bold scheme--A night attack-- Silently through the darkness--At the foot of Gun Hill--A broken ascent--"Wie kom dar?" "The English are on us!...

Husbanding supplies--Colonel Ward's fine work--Our Christmas market--A scanty show--Some startling prices--A word to cynics-- The compounding of plum-puddings--The strict rules...

Moral effects of shell fire--General White appeals to Joubert-- The neutral camp--Attitude of civilians--Meeting at the Town Hall--A veteran's protest--Faith in the Union Jack--...

Sir Redvers Buller's second attempt--A message from the Queen--Last sad farewells--Burial of Steevens and Lord Ava--At dead of night-- Relief army north of the Tugela--Water dif...

The exodus of the townsfolk--Communications threatened--Slim Piet Joubert--Espionage in the town--Neglected precautions--A truce that paid--British positions described--Big guns...

Joubert's boast--The preliminaries of attack--Shells in the town-- A simultaneous advance--Observation Hill threatened--A wary enemy--A prompt repulse--Attack on Tunnel Hill--Th...

General White forced to fight--The order of battle--Leviathan-- The Boers reinforced--A retrograde movement--How Marsden met his death--Naval guns in action--A night of disaster...