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Later these people, known as the Cimarrón, assisted Sir Francis Drake in fighting against the Spanish. Yanga secured recognition of the freedom of his maroons, and his palenque was accorded the status of a free town. Due to their difficulties and those of Black Loyalists settled at Nova Scotia and England after the American Revolution, Great Britain established a colony in West Africa, Sierra Leone. Spanish: Y si prestamos atención al testimonio de Oviedo cuando, después de haber vivido en la Española por muchos años, asevera que cimarrón «quiere decir, en la lengua desta isla, fugitivos», quedaría demostrado que nos hallamos, en efecto, ante un temprano préstamo de la lengua taina.Arawak lineages ( Taíno people represented within haplogroups A and Kalinago people represented within haplogroups C) can also be found in this area. Maroons who escaped from the Thirteen Colonies and allied with Seminole Indians were one of the largest and most successful maroon communities in what is now Florida due to more rights and freedoms extracted from the Spanish Empire.

To ensure this loyalty, maroon communities used severe methods to protect against desertion and spies. Of the 10 major quilombos in colonial Brazil, seven were destroyed within two years of being formed.

However, the eastern mountains harboured the longer lasting palenques, in particular those of Moa and Maluala, where the maroons thrived until the First War of Independence in 1868, when large numbers of maroons joined the Cuban Liberation Army. The maroons created their own independent communities, which in some cases have survived for centuries, and until recently remained separate from mainstream society.

From their original landing place in Roatan Island off the coast of Honduras, the maroons moved to Trujillo. On 18 June 1695 a gang of maroons of Indonesian and Chinese origins, including Aaron d'Amboine, Antoni (Bamboes) and Paul de Batavia, as well as female escapees Anna du Bengale and Espérance, set fire to the Dutch settlers' Fort Frederick Hendryk ( Vieux Grand Port) in an attempt to take over control of the island. A chassis mounted fairing for incredibly stable handling also provides class-leading wind protection.Histoires du marronage: Les combattants de la liberté" [Marronage Stories: The Freedom Fighters] (in French). In addition to escaped slaves, survivors from shipwrecks formed independent communities along rivers of the northern coast and mingled with indigenous communities in areas beyond the reach of the colonial administration. To this day, the Jamaican Maroons are to a significant extent autonomous and separate from Jamaican society. In the years that followed, the maroons attacked a number of settlements, including Fond-Parisien, for food, weapons, gunpowder and women. They eventually rose to leadership of the Mosquito Coast and led extensive slave raids against Spanish-held territories in the first half of the 18th century.