First Maroon War

First Maroon War
Part of the Slave Revolts in North America
Date1728–1739
Location
Jamaica
Result

British government offers peace treaties

  • Cudjoe agrees to stop attacks, not take part in new escapees and help capture escaping slaves
  • British give Leeward Maroons their freedom, own land, the right to hunt wild pigs and have their own government
Belligerents

British Empire

 Windward Maroons
Leeward Maroons
Commanders and leaders
Governors of Jamaica:
Robert Hunter
John Ayscough
John Gregory
Edward Trelawny		 Windward Maroons:
Nanny of the Maroons
Quao
Leeward Maroons:
Cudjoe
Accompong
Strength
A total of 10,000 A total of 1,000

The First Maroon War was a conflict between the Jamaican Maroons and the colonial British authorities that started around 1728 and continued until the peace treaties of 1739 and 1740. It was led by Indigenous Jamaicans who helped Africans to set up communities in the mountains. The name "Maroon" was given to these Africans, and for many years they fought the British colonial Government of Jamaica for their freedom. The maroons were skilled in guerrilla warfare. It was followed about half a century later by the Second Maroon War.

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