British Sortie Failure
- When
- 30 Oct–2 Nov 1899
- Where
- Ladysmith, Natal
A British sortie on 30 October 1899 against surrounding Boer forces preceded the start of the siege on 2 November 1899.
A large British force which had concentrated at the garrison town of Ladysmith launched a sortie on 30 October 1899, against Boer armies which were slowly surrounding the town. The siege of Ladysmith began on 2 November 1899 as a protracted engagement lasting until 28 February 1900. Separately, Second Lieutenant John Norwood (5th Dragoon Guards) rescued a wounded comrade under heavy fire during a patrol on 30 October 1899. Legacy casualty and capture figures for the sortie are not verified in the supplied passages.
Sources
- Battle of Ladysmith Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-21
- Siege of Ladysmith Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-06
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.