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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.
Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town), ruled by Cudjoe, and secured recognition from the British after the First Maroon War (1728–1740). Most of the Trelawny Maroons were deported after the Second Maroon War to Nova Scotia, and then to Sierra Leone. Eventually, after Emancipation, in the 1840s, a few hundred Trelawny Maroons eventually returned from ...
Early in the 18th century, the Maroons took a heavy toll on British colonial militiamen who sent against them in the interior, in what came to be known as the First Maroon War. In 1728, the British authorities sent Robert Hunter to assume the office of governor of Jamaica; Hunter's arrival led to an intensification of the conflict. However ...
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) Spain. Spanish West Indies; Commonwealth of England: Treaties of Madrid (1667 and 1670) The English invasion of Jamaica takes place in May 1655. Spain formally cedes several territories to England, including Jamaica, in 1670. First Maroon War (1728–1740) Windward Maroons. Leeward Maroons. British Empire. Colony ...
Where: Tulsa Historical Society & Museum, 2445 S Peoria Ave., Tulsa. Admission: Free. Parking: There will be no on-site parking. Attendees should park at Cascia Hall, 2520 S Yorktown Ave., and ...
Portrait of Cherokee leader Cunne Shote (1762) by Francis Parsons. Gilcrease Museum, also known as the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, [1] is a museum northwest of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma housing the world's largest, most comprehensive collection of art of the American West, as well as a growing collection of art and artifacts from Central and South America.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that devastated the city’s Black ...
During the First Maroon War, the Maroons of Nanny Town raided plantations for weapons and food, burnt plantations, and led liberated slaves to join them at Nanny Town. [ 8 ] Nanny Town was an excellent location for a stronghold, as it overlooked Stony River via a 900-foot ridge, making a surprise attack by the British very difficult.