Second Maroon War
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In 1795 the Maroons of Trelawny Parish, Jamaica declared war for a second time against the British. They felt that they were being badly treated under the terms of the treaty. After two Maroons were flogged for stealing a pig and mocked by slaves they had helped return to their masters, they declared war.
[edit] The war
The war lasted for five months as a bloody draw, neither side able to take any advantage; the Maroons escalated the violence by raiding slave plantations, murdering the planters and their families. Among the estates burned were Catadupa, Lapland and Mocha.
About this time General Walpole was placed in command of the British forces, and a series of forts were built around the Cockpit country, effectively immobilizing the Maroons. After the arrival of one hundred bloodhounds and their handlers, the Maroons were forced into negotiations.
[edit] Aftermath
All the Trelawney town Maroons were to surrender by January 1; most didn't surrender until mid-March and the assembly and council used this as a pretext to deport all the Trelawney town Maroons: first to Nova Scotia, and after a few years to the new British settlement of Sierra Leone in West Africa. The other Maroon towns did not take part in this rebellion, and their treaty with the British remained in force until Jamaica gained its independence in 1962.
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