 From their original landing place in Roatan Island, the maroons moved to Trujillo.Gradually groups migrated south into the Miskito Kingdom and north into Belize.Runaway slaves and fugitive French republican soldiers formed the so-called "Armée Française dans les bois" (French army in the woods), which comprised about 6,000 men who fought a guerilla war against the British army occupying Santa Lucia.