First Maroon War

First Maroon War
Part of the Slave Revolts in North America
Date1728–1740
Location
Result

Maroon victory

  • British government offers peace treaties
Belligerents

Kingdom of Great Britain British Empire

Windward Maroons
Leeward Maroons
Commanders and leaders
Governors of Jamaica:
Kingdom of Great BritainRobert Hunter
Kingdom of Great BritainJohn Ayscough
Kingdom of Great BritainJohn Gregory
Kingdom of Great BritainEdward 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.