The Swordsman of Trelawny
2010, 15 minutes
Follows the uprising of the 1795 Maroon war
Set during the Second Maroon War between 1795-96 in Trelawny, Jamaica, Julius Soubise - the adopted son of the Duke and Duchess of Queensbury - is drawn into the war by Leonard Parkinson, the leader of the Maroons, when Colonel Craskell, the leader of the British Redcoats, imports Cuban dogs to hunt down the Maroons and ship them off to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone. Soubise is regarded as an outlaw by Craskell and is hunted down. But while Leonard Parkinson is fighting off the Redcoats, Soubise has a final showdown with Craskell by crossing swords.
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