sentences:  The Ashanti then continued to snipe at the defenders, cut the telegraph wires, blockade food supplies, and attack relief columns.Blocking all roads leading to the town with 21 log barricades six feet high with loopholes to fire through, hundreds of yards long and so solid they would be impervious to artillery fire.As supplies ran low and disease took its toll on the defenders, another rescue party of 700 arrived in June.