Persona históriko

Indigenous fighters

← Bula bèk na Dashboard
📍 Sürnam

Indigenous fighters

Hénero: Homber

Eventonan Relashoná

Coordinated attacks open the struggle for independence

📅 15 Desèmber 1678

On 15 December, Indigenous fighters attack plantations in several areas. Sugar works and settlers’ property are destroyed, and colonial residents are killed. The attacks show organized resistance to...

A new governor arrives as the war is already under way

📅 21 Desèmber 1678

Johannes Heijnsius arrives to take up the governorship. He sends patrols to search for the fighters, but they return without finding them. The occupying government tries to regain the initiative,...

Fighters set fire to Browningh’s plantation again

📅 23 April 1679

Indigenous fighters set fire again to John Browningh’s partly rebuilt plantation. According to the colonial report, they shout that the Europeans who came by ship should leave by ship. The call...

Attacks and flight from plantations increase

📅 18 Ougùstùs 1679

Heijnsius writes that Indigenous attacks are increasing and that many Africans are fleeing plantations. Together, Indigenous military pressure and African marronage weaken the plantation colony’s...

Maroons appear alongside Indigenous fighters

📅 8 Òktober 1679

A journal reports that Gaminet, a Maroon, is travelling with Indigenous fighters. This points to contact and possible solidarity between communities resisting colonial rule. The archive describes...

Fighters target plantation buildings and sugar works

📅 13 Desèmber 1679

Indigenous fighters burn a house and sugar works; the following day a provision ground is also attacked. These actions affect both colonial production and food supplies. The reports describe damage,...

Fighters and escaped Africans attack Acaribo plantation

📅 13 Febrüari 1680

Indigenous fighters attack Acaribo with help from Africans who had escaped the plantation. Their cooperation connects resistance to colonial occupation with resistance to slavery. The colonial...

Attack on Fort Oranje forces the occupiers to withdraw

📅 3 Yüli 1680

Several soldiers are killed and others wounded during an attack on Fort Oranje. The surviving occupiers abandon the post and return to Paramaribo with the wounded. The attack shows that fortified...

Resistance reaches Paramaribo

📅 15 Mart 1681

Indigenous fighters set fire to a house in Paramaribo and a building on an abandoned plantation, then escape. The colonial authorities suspect Maroon assistance. The action brings the war to the...

New governor calls for destruction of food grounds

📅 27 Novèmber 1683

After taking office, Governor Van Sommelsdijck declares that fighters must be hunted down and killed, settlements destroyed and food supplies removed. The aim is to bring Indigenous communities...

Major offensive fails to secure a decisive victory

📅 25 Yanüari 1684

An expedition of about 284 men moves into the interior during the rainy season. After ten weeks, the colonial report records deaths, captives and burned villages, but no elimination of the resistance....