The blockade imposed during the ensuing stalemate led to mass starvation. The war remained a frustrating stalemate for two years. The battle drifted into a stalemate. The war would end in a military stalemate. The battle lasted several months, resulting in a stalemate. The royalists counterattacked but the stalemate resumed. A three-year stalemate ensued. The war soon settled into a stalemate. Peace came after only two years of the war which ended in a stalemate. The war was thus locked in a stalemate. The First Kandyan War ended in a stalemate. The war in Italy settled into a strategic stalemate. The war lasted for five months as a bloody stalemate. The war ended in a 1953 stalemate. But the war dragged on into an expensive stalemate.