Second Maroon War

The Second Maroon War
	Part of the Atlantic Revolutions and the Slave Revolts in North America
	; Illustration of Trelawney Town
Date	1795 – 1796
Location	Jamaica
Result	Maroon surrender
Belligerents
British Empire Colonial militias; Accompong Town;	Maroons from Trelawney Town and allies
Commanders and leaders
Earl Balcarres ; George Walpole ; William Fitch †	Montague James ; John Jarret ; Charles Samuels ; Andrew Smith ; Leonard Parkinson ; James Palmer
Strength
5,000	150 Maroons, 350 runaway slaves
Casualties and losses
At least 65	21–32

The Second Maroon War of 1795–1796 was an eight-month conflict between the Maroons of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town), a Maroon settlement later renamed after Governor Edward Trelawny at the end of First Maroon War, located near Trelawny Parish, Jamaica in the St James Parish, and the British colonials who controlled the island. The Windward communities of Jamaican Maroons remained neutral during this rebellion and their treaty with the British still remains in force. Accompong Town, however, sided with the colonial militias, and fought against Trelawny Town.^[2]

^ Michael Siva, After the Treaties: A Social, Economic and Demographic History of Maroon Society in Jamaica, 1739–1842, PhD Dissertation, African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica library (Southampton: Southampton University, 2018), pp. 144–47, 176–77.
^ Mavis Campbell, The Maroons of Jamaica (Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, 1988), pp. 209–49.

[1] Michael Siva, After the Treaties: A Social, Economic and Demographic History of Maroon Society in Jamaica, 1739–1842, PhD Dissertation, African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica library (Southampton: Southampton University, 2018), pp. 144–47, 176–77.

[2] Mavis Campbell, The Maroons of Jamaica (Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, 1988), pp. 209–49.

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