sentences:  Kandyan forces defeated the retreating British at the Mahavali River, executing Muttusami and all the British prisoners except Davie and three others.This Kandyan war lasted for two years, becoming the longest and most intensive period of the Kandyan Wars, because Governor North continued to send forces to the frontiers.The British fought their way to Kandy, encountering Kandyan resistance led in part by a Malay commander known as Sangunglo.