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Descriptive text from separate pages at the back which cannot be supplied (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
VIEW OF LADYSMITH.
Few persons will forget the pride that thrilled throughout the Empire at the relief of Ladysmith in 1900. Though the place does not lend itself readily to defence, for four months 20,000 loyal subjects of the British sovereign were isolated—and suffered pangs of hunger, the inroads of fell disease, and the stress of battle rather than haul down the flag of Old England. Disease caused six hundred graves to be added to the cemetery, and two hundred and eleven persons were killed in the bombardment. When the siege began it was expected that it would last for a fortnight—Ladysmith held out for one hundred and nineteen days.