Women involved in rebellion

Empress Jingū setting foot in the Promised Land. Painting by Yoshitoshi (1880)

Throughout history several women have been instrumental in either starting or changing the course of a revolution or rebellion.

In history

• c. 1200 BC, Deborah led a successful Wikipedia:counterattack against Wikipedia:Jabin, king of Wikipedia:Canaan and his military commander Wikipedia:Sisera. Wikipedia:Jael killed Sisera and God gave the victory to Israel. (Judg. 5:23-27)

• In 131 BC, Cleopatra II of Egypt led a rebellion against Wikipedia:Ptolemy VIII Physcon and drove him and Cleopatra III out of Egypt.

• In 14 AD, Mother Lü led a peasant rebellion against Wikipedia:Wang Mang of the Western Wikipedia:Han Dynasty.

• In 40 AD, the TrÆ°ng Sisters successfully rebelled against the Chinese (WP) Han-Dynasty rule, and are regarded as national heroines of Wikipedia:Vietnam.

Medieval depiction of Joan of Arc (WP)

• In 200 AD Empress JingÅ« was an Wikipedia:onna bugeisha who led an invasion of Korea after her husband, the fourteenth emperor of Japan, Wikipedia:Emperor ChÅ«ai was slain in battle. According to legend, she miraculously led a Japanese conquest of Korea without shedding a drop of blood.

• In 269 AD, Zenobia, Syrian queen of the Wikipedia:Palmyrene Empire led a revolt against the Wikipedia:Roman Empire, expanding the empire and conquering Egypt (WP).

• In 378 AD, Queen Mavia led a rebellion against the Roman army and defeated them repeatedly. The Romans finally negotiated a truce with her on her conditions.

• In 945-963 AD, according to the Wikipedia:Primary Chronicle, Olga of Kiev launched a series of attacks against the Wikipedia:Drevlians and established a system of taxation (Wikipedia:poliudie) as the first Wikipedia:legal reform recorded in Eastern Europe (WP).

• In 1429, Joan of Arc (WP) led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War (WP) which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII.

• In 1539, Gaitana led the indigenous people of northern Cauca, Wikipedia:Colombia in armed resistance against colonization by the Spanish. Her monument sculpted by Wikipedia:Rodrigo Arenas stands in Wikipedia:Neiva, the capital of Wikipedia:Huila in Wikipedia:Colombia.

• In 1670, Alyona was a Erzyan Wikipedia:ataman in Wikipedia:Russia. She commanded a detachment of about 600 men and participated in the capture of Wikipedia:Temnikov. She was burned at the stake.

• In 1780, Ñusta Huillac rebelled against the Spanish in Wikipedia:Chile.

• In 1799, [[Wikipedia:Bibi Sahib Kaur/]Bibi Sahib Kaur]] was a Wikipedia:Sikh Wikipedia:princess and Wikipedia:Prime Minister who led armies into battle against the British (WP) and was one of few Indian women to win battles against a British general, and forced George Thomas to withdraw.

• In 1880, at the Battle of Maiwand, Wikipedia:Malalai Anaa was a young Pashtun woman who rallied the Pashtun army against the British troops on 27 July 1880, during the Wikipedia:Second Anglo-Afghan War. She is a Wikipedia:national Wikipedia:folk hero of Afghanistan (WP).

• In 1958, Ani Pachen was a Tibetan Buddhist nun who led a Wikipedia:guerrilla campaign of 600 fighters on horseback against Wikipedia:Communist Chinese Wikipedia:tanks.

In recent history

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• In 2003, an African peace activists, Leymah Gbowee and Comfort Freeman, organized Wikipedia:Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace and brought an end to the Wikipedia:Second Liberian Civil War, which led to the election of Wikipedia:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Wikipedia:Liberia, the first Wikipedia:African nation with a Wikipedia:female president.

• In 2004, Paraska Korolyuk and Yulia Tymoshenko were iconic figures and key activists of the Wikipedia:Orange Revolution in Ukraine.

• In 2011, twenty-six year old Asmaa Mahfouz was instrumental in sparking the protests that began the uprising in Cairo and started the Wikipedia:2011 Egyptian revolution. She urged the Egyptian people to join her in a protest on January 25 in Wikipedia:Tahrir Square to bring down Mubarak’s regime. She used Wikipedia:video blogging and Wikipedia:social media that went viral and urged people not to be afraid. Wikipedia:Israa Abdel Fattah, also called Facebook Girl; drew the attention of the foreign media to gain international support.

In folklore

• The story of Cordelia of Britain was used by Shakespeare in his play Wikipedia:King Lear. Before Shakespeare it was also used in Wikipedia:Edmund Spenser's epic Wikipedia:The Faerie Queene and in the anonymous play Wikipedia:King Leir. The popularity of Cordelia at this period is probably because her role as a heroic queen was comparable to Wikipedia:Queen Elizabeth I.

See also

• Wikipedia:Child soldiers
• Wikipedia:Female diplomats
• Wikipedia:Female heads of government
• Wikipedia:Girls with guns
• Wikipedia:List of women warriors in folklore
• Wikipedia:List of women warriors in folklore, literature, and popular culture
• Wikipedia:Women in the military by country
• Wikipedia:Woman warrior