Abstract
ABSTRACT The first major battle of the Second Jamaican Maroon War began on 12 August 1795, when the Trelawny Town Maroons ambushed a column of British light cavalry or ‘dragoons’, militia, and volunteers who were attempting to invade their semi-autonomous community. This battle was a favourite topic for British colonial historians and is still referred to in mythologized legends about a Maroon ambush at a site locally called Dragoon Hole. Drawing on archival, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence, I propose that while colonial histories about this battle were influenced by imperial politics, local community memories about Dragoon Hole were shaped through generations of social interactions within a sacred and archaeologically abundant landscape.
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