List of wars involving Jamaica

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This is a list of wars and conflicts involving Jamaica .

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Jamaican rebels

ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Results
First Maroon War

(1728–1740)

 Windward Maroons

Leeward Maroons

Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg British Empire

Flag of Jamaica (1957-1962).svg Colony of Jamaica

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

(1760–1761)

 Coromantee rebels Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg Great Britain

Flag of Jamaica (1957-1962).svg Colony of Jamaica

Jamaican Maroons

Defeat of the Coromantee rebels
  • Revolt suppressed
Second Maroon War

(1795–1796)

 Maroons from Cudjoe's Town and allies Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg British Empire

Flag of Jamaica (1957-1962).svg Colony of Jamaica Flag of Accompong.svg Accompong town

Defeat of the Jamaican Maroons
  • Maroon surrender
Baptist War

(1831–1832)

Slave rebelsFlag of Jamaica (1957-1962).svg Colony of Jamaica Defeat of the Slave rebels
  • Rebellion suppressed
Morant Bay rebellion

(1865)

Jamaicans from Morant Bay (Jamaica Committee) Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg 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

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

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