sentences:  During the siege both sides tried to cut off the other's supplies.At this the Afghans were considerably more effective, so that by the end of November 1760 they had cut off almost all food supplies into the besieged Maratha camp (which had about 1,00,000 non-combatants).According to all the chronicles of the time, food in the Maratha camp ran out by late December or early January and cattle died by the thousands.