First Maroon War

First Maroon War
	Part of the Slave Revolts in North America
Date	1728–1739
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 Colony of Jamaica;	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 Jamaican born to the land who helped liberated Africans to set up communities in the mountains who were coming off of slave ships. 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.

^ Abramson, Allen; Theodossopoulus, Dimitrios (2000-11-20). Land, Law and Environment: Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries. Pluto Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-7453-1570-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c Doumerc, Eric (2003). Caribbean Civilisation: The English-speaking Caribbean Since Independence. Presses Univ. du Mirail. p. 29. ISBN 978-2-85816-699-2.
^ ^a ^b Bjorklund, Ruth (2015). Jamaica. p. 47. The war ended when the British and Cudjoe signed a peace treaty. Cudjoe agreed to stop the attacks and said he would no longer take in new escapees. Moreover, he promised to help capture escaped slaves. In return, the British gave the Leeward Maroons their freedom and their own land as well as the right to hunt wild pigs and have their own government.

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[1] Abramson, Allen; Theodossopoulus, Dimitrios (2000-11-20). Land, Law and Environment: Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries. Pluto Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-7453-1570-6.

[:0-3] Doumerc, Eric (2003). Caribbean Civilisation: The English-speaking Caribbean Since Independence. Presses Univ. du Mirail. p. 29. ISBN 978-2-85816-699-2.

[:1-4] Bjorklund, Ruth (2015). Jamaica. p. 47. The war ended when the British and Cudjoe signed a peace treaty. Cudjoe agreed to stop the attacks and said he would no longer take in new escapees. Moreover, he promised to help capture escaped slaves. In return, the British gave the Leeward Maroons their freedom and their own land as well as the right to hunt wild pigs and have their own government.

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