we can all relate to stories of notable rebels from history somewhere deep down standing up
to tyranny appeals to each one of us even if most people wouldn't go as far as these
people did that's why many of them are still remembered as heroes in their own countries
regardless of whether or not they succeeded more importantly these stories provide more accurate
and complete picture of their respective time periods as they shine a light on
those parts that have always been written out of history rome slave rebellions as an example
help us understand the roman story from the perspective of its sizable slave population
instead of just a handful of nobles that got to write it
number 10. what tyler the 14th century wasn't a great time for europe it all started with a
famine of 1315-1370 triggered by abnormally heavy rains and floods across the continent
before things could recover many densely populated cities and towns across the continent were hit by
the black death which turned out to be one of the deadliest viral outbreaks in history
that was the backdrop for what tyler's revolt of 1381 a peasant revolt in britain against unfair
taxation laws while not much is known about tyler's early life later records suggests that
the rebellion was centered in the essex region with widespread support from the local population
he gathered a group of peasants armed them with whatever they could gather and marched on london
while they were initially successful and managed to enter the city forcing king richard the second
to come to the negotiating table it couldn't last tyler was eventually killed by the mayor of london
sir william woolworth during a heated round of negotiations effectively ending the uprising 9.
zhu yuanjiang like europe china was going through its own wave of uprisings for the better part of
the 14th century caused by widespread hunger and famine in its northern and central regions by far
the most successful of them was the rebellion of zhu yang zhang who went on to establish one of the
longest running dynasties in chinese history ball in poverty in a small village on china's
east coast in 1328 ranjang joined one of the many rebel forces rising in the region against
the ruling mongol wang dynasty at the age of 16. he quickly rose through the ranks and gained a
set of loyal followers successfully marching on the strategic center of nanjing in 1356.
that was the turning point and after years of battles and victories against the mongols zhu
finally occupied the juan capital of darud now beijing in 1368. zhu yuanjiang would be the first
emperor and founder of the ming dynasty which ruled over a largely unified china for close
to three centuries as well as one of the most successful rebels in history number 8 zenobia
the kingdom of palmyra with its capital city of the same name came under roman rule in the 1st
century a.d though only as a client state still largely controlled by its own royalty by the third
century though as roman power dwindled across the region so did its hold on its various foreign
territories palmyra now a strong prosperous region ruled by queen zenobia decided to take its chances
and rebelled zenobia was a gifted strategist and tactician and wanted to establish an eastern
empire along the lines of rome at the height of its glory by the year 270 she had already captured
egypt and established herself as a formidable challenge to roman forces in the end though queens
and obvious forces could match up to the roman war machine still one of the most well-trained forces
of all time aurelian augustus the roman emperor at the time besieged and captured the city of palmyra
in 272. records aren't clear on what happened to her though some sources claimed she was captured
and spent the rest of her life as a roman prisoner 7. william wallace while many of you already know
about william wallace thanks to the 1995 film based on his story braveheart he still deserves
a spot on any list of notable rebels in history still celebrated as a national hero in scotland
wallace's story isn't just an example of one man rising against the might of a kingdom but
also the sheer brutality of rulers towards failed rebellions wallace was one of the main leaders of
the first scottish war of independence as well as one of the most successful by 1297 he had managed
to defeat king edward's forces at the battle of sterling bridge establishing himself as a
major challenger to britain's rule in scotland unfortunately the victory would be short-lived as
wallace's forces were defeated by royal forces in 1298 though he managed to escape not much is known
about his activities in the years following that until 1305 when he was captured and handed over to
the king by a scottish knight as an example to the rest of his subjects william wallace was publicly
hanged disemboweled beheaded and quartered with his limbs sent to different parts of the land
number 6. sitting bull tatanka iatake also known as sitting bull was a native american leader
from the lakota tribe while he wasn't the first native american leader to rebel against the u.s
government's authority he was certainly one of the most successful at least initially starting
his fighting career at the age of 14 itake soon established a reputation as a skilled fighter
he'd go on to mount campaigns against u.s forces and other native american tribes for many years
earning a reputation as a fearless warrior and a capable leader he was appointed as the principal
chief of the entire sioux nation in 1867. sitting bull is still remembered for his decisive victory
over george armstrong custer a major u.s military leader in the american indian wars at the battle
of bighorner part of the larger great zoo wars of 1876 while that established him as a formidable
rebel leader in the great plains region it prompted the government to divert even more
resources to reasserting its control sitting bull was eventually defeated and forced to surrender in
1881 5. boudica while the roman empire faced its fair share of rebellions throughout his existence
most of them were crushed without a lot of effort until the big one that succeeded of course some
rebel leaders however posed a greater challenge to roman rule than others one of them was boudicca a
warrior queen of the native iceni tribe from britain unfortunately we only know about her
from later roman sources who were heavily biased towards the roman side of the story
by all accounts though she was one of rome's most successful rebels at the peak of its
power the rebellion started in 60 a.d caused by increasingly brutal and repressive acts by roman
authorities against the native britons things reached a breaking point however when boudicca
was flogged and her two daughters raped by roman soldiers in response the isani along with other
tribes in the region went up in open revolt the response was swift and brutal as boudicca's forces
retaliated against any romans in the region she captured the capital of roman britain camulodunum
now colchester and brutally massacred the entire roman population of the city within a few days
while she won a few more battles boudicca's rebellion was eventually crushed by the romans
records aren't clear on what happened to her after that though according to at least one account she
poisoned herself to avoid capture 4. ho chi minh most of us remember ho chi minh for his campaign
against us and south vietnam-led forces during the vietnam war though his career as a rebel guerrilla
leader actually started way before that one of the most celebrated communist leaders of the cold
war era hoe had been active in politics since at least 1917 founding the indochina communist
party in 1930 and its successor the viet minh in 1941. he had led the vietnamese independence
movement against the japanese starting in 1941 and then against france in 1945 uniting
various groups under his command ho chi minh's forces successfully defeated the better equipped
french colonial army at the climatic battle of dien bien phu in 1953-1954 while they defeated
the french the country was now controlled as two competing units north and south vietnam
effectively beginning the two decades-long vietnam war he along with a few other north vietnamese
leaders were responsible for the north vietnamese forces adopting guerrilla tactics sometime in 1965
avoiding open confrontation unless the odds were in their favor as we all know that strategy worked
and ho chi minh forces ultimately dominated vietnam was reunited in 1975 as a socialist
nation and ho is still remembered as a national hero in vietnam and other ex-communist nations 3.
nat turner the history of slavery in the u.s has been well documented and discussed although that
rarely includes all the slave rebellions much like other slave-based economies in the world
throughout history u.s history is full of examples of slaves that decided to take up arms and fight
the most sustained and successful of those was nat turner's rebellion in southampton county virginia
starting on the 21st of august 1831 he and his band of about 70 revolting slaves armed
with rudimentary weapons like knives and staffs raided the white settlements in the area killing
anywhere between 55 and 70 people depending on the source the rebellion was ultimately put down by
the state police and local militias loyal to them while nat turner was captured and hanged in 1831
the whole thing seriously alarmed the rest of the slaveholder population across the
south the uprising forced the government to enact even stricter laws to control the slave
population until slavery was finally outlawed in the aftermath of the american civil war
2. tito tito or joseph broz was the leader of perhaps one of the most successful rebellion
movements in history the partisan army it was only one of the many rebel groups that sprung
up across yugoslavia after nazis occupied it in 1941 collectively called the yugoslav partisans
by the end of the war though the partisan army in particular had turned into a major challenge
for the nazis tito's partisans would deploy a variety of methods to weaken the nazis including
printing revolutionary material to inspire other yugoslavians to join their cause after the war
was won tito went on to serve as the effective head of the government of the socialist federal
republic of yugoslavia until his death in 1980. 1. lenin vladimir lenin evokes mixed responses from
everyone though no one can deny that he was one of the most successful rebel leaders in history
the bolshevik revolution of 1917 permanently and brutally ended one of the longest-running royal
lineages of europe as well as inspired multiple other revolutions in the rest of europe and beyond
lenin turned to revolutionary theory when his brother was executed by the state for
conspiring to assassinate the emperor in 1887. he'd go on to work with many marxist societies
around the world and develop his theory and was even exiled in 1895 for trying to unionize work
as in petrograd lenin's ideology bolshevism was more militaristic than other socialist groups in
the country at the turn of the 20th century it was this faction that ultimately deposed
the sars government in 1917 and formed the soviet republic one of the longest running empires ever
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