List of wars involving Jamaica

This is a list of wars and conflicts involving Jamaica.

Jamaican rebels

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
First Maroon War

(1728-1740)

Windward Maroons

Leeward Maroons

  British Empire

  Colony of Jamaica

Victory of the Jamaican Maroons
  • British government offered peace treaties
Tacky's Revolt

(1760-1761)

Coromantee rebels   Great Britain

  Colony of Jamaica

Jamaican Maroons

Defeat of the Coromantee rebels
  • Revolt suppressed
Second Maroon War

(1795-1796)

Maroons from Cudjoe's Town and allies   British Empire

  Colony of Jamaica   Accompong town

Defeat of the Jamaican Maroons
  • Maroon surrender
Baptist War

(1831-1832)

Slave rebels   Colony of Jamaica Defeat of the Slave rebels
  • Rebellion suppressed
Morant Bay rebellion

(1865)

Jamaicans from Morant Bay (Jamaica Committee)   British Empire Failure of Jamaican rebels
  • Phillips v Eyre decided in Eyre's favour
  • Rebellion used as a justification for more centralized control of Britain's empire

Jamaica

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Invasion of Grenada
(1983)
  United States
  Barbados
  Jamaica
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
  PRG of Grenada
  Cuba
Victory
  • Grenadian dictatorship deposed
  • Cuban military presence defeated
  • Restoration of Constitutional Government

References

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