The second maroon war in Jamaica commenced in seventeen ninety-five and lasted until seventeen ninety-six. The second marron war resulted from two young maroon men being accused of stealing two pigs from a white Montego Bay planter. They were subsequently sentenced to receive thirty-nine lashes each. In efforts to express their objections, six maroon men complained to the British but would be captured as prisoners. “In response, armed Trelawney Town men maroons, despite the maroons’ purported status as British allied, had threatened the new British Superintendent-General for maroons Captain Craskell with death unless he left Trelawney Town.” This would result in a war against the British. The British would release some five thousand troops to annihilate the maroons outnumbering them ten to one. It would be the mountainous and forested landscape of Jamaica that aided the guerilla warfare. …show more content…
The Trelawney Town maroons did not garner up a much maroons a they would like in fact other maroons allied with the British in their fight against the Trelawney Town maroons. After being cut off from resources, the maroons in seventeen ninety-six would surrender to the British “under which they would give themselves and all fugitive slaves…and, in return, not be punished and allowed to stay in Jamaica.” The significance of marronage in Jamaica was that the British would come to the acceptance that they could not defeat the maroons, instead they would come to an