CIRCE
"BLOOM
On this day twenty years ago we overcame the hereditary enemy at Ladysmith."
(U15.1524)
The Siege of Ladysmith (South Africa) was a protracted engagement in the Second Boer War between the British who held Ladysmith (Commanders George Stuart White and Sir Redvers Buller), and the Boers (Petrus Jacobus Joubert and Louis Botha). It lasted 30 October 1899 - 28 February 1900.
