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Siege of Ladysmith

While Buller made repeated attempts to fight his way across the Tugela, the defenders of Ladysmith suffered increasingly from shortage of food and other supplies, and from disease, mainly enteric fever or typhoid, which claimed among many others, the life of noted war correspondent G.W. Steevens.

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George Warrington Steevens, British author and war correspondent, of enteric fever.

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