sentences:  The offices were then fortified into a small stockade, square with loopholed high stone walls and firing turrets at each corner, that housed 18 Europeans, dozens of mixed-race colonial administrators, and 500 Nigerian Hausas with six small field guns and four Maxim guns.The British detained several high ranking leaders in the fort.The Ashanti, aware that they were unprepared for storming the fort settled into a long siege, only making one assault on the position on 29 April that was unsuccessful.