The hard core of the pro-Communist rebel force numbers only some 2,000 tough Viet Minh guerrilla fighters.

When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

Referring to the resolution, Lumumba wrote to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, ‘ From these texts it is clear that, contrary to your personal interpretation, the UN force may be used to subdue the rebel government of Katanga .’ Secretary General Hammarskjöld refused.

The British troops, after taking some casualties, managed to regroup and launch several assaults on the position before they forced their way inside and the small rebel force in the tin huts at the eastern end of the Union surrendered.

With the colony facing a full-scale invasion by Britain, the rebel slaves emerged as a powerful military force, under the leadership of Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Henri Christophe.

These international troops have been criticized for cooperating with rebel forces, refusing to disarm them, and integrating former military and death-squad ( FRAPH ) members into the re-militarized Haitian National Police force following the coup.

A ECOWAS-ECOMIL force of 1000 Nigerian troops was airlifted into Liberia on August 15, to halt the occupation of Monrovia by rebel forces.

The rebel groups were fighting to force the Soviet Union to withdraw from Afghanistan as well as to remove the Soviet-backed government of President Mohammad Najibullah.

* In the 1960 Cold War novel Village of Stars by David Beaty ( writing as Paul Stanton ), an RAF V-bomber of the fictional Venger type is sent to drop a nuclear bomb on a rebel force in the Middle East.

* Kaifeng flood of 1642: Some 300, 000 people die when the Ming Dynasty army in China intentionally breaks the dams and dykes of the Yellow River to break the siege by the large rebel force of Li Zicheng.

A rebel force of 2, 000 men, primarily composed of New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, led by General John Stark, and reinforced by men led by Colonel Seth Warner and members of the Green Mountain Boys, decisively defeated a detachment of General John Burgoyne's army led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, and supported by additional men under Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann.

In 1356, Zhu's rebel force captured the city of Nanjing, which he would later establish as the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Known for its ambitious use of fire ships, Zhu's force of 200, 000 Ming sailors were able to defeat a Han rebel force over triple their size, claimed to be 650, 000-strong.

When this force was defeated, the rebel hopes for victory in the war were all but ended.

The rebel force he led grew.

* Ace Combat: Assault Horizon: Another Ace Combat installment for the Xbox 360 as well as PS3, it follows the story of a U. S Air Force / NATO colonel and takes place in the real world in a war between the United States and NATO against a rebel force in Africa, Russian coup forces and a mercenary ace driven to revenge for the death of his wife.

In 1629 a Dutch expeditionary force searching for Han pirates, was massacred by warriors from Mattau, and the victory inspired other villages to rebel.

Meanwhile, Catiline joined up with Gaius Manlius, commander of the rebel force.

The rebel force, composed primarily of ethnic Tutsis, blamed the government for failing to democratize and resolve the problems of some 500, 000 Tutsi refugees living in diaspora around the world.

Despite Picard's effort to force her to do her duty, in the end, she betrays Starfleet and joins the rebel group.

The rebel leaders met with him there, but they were refused help because Lothair's force was too small.

However, Evagoras manages to cut off this force from being resupplied, and the starving troops rebel.

In February 1825, Ibrahim led an expeditionary force of 16, 000 into the Peloponnese, and soon overran its western part ; he failed, however, to take the eastern section, where the rebel government was based ( at Nafplion ).

Before the rebel force arrived, Kirkpatrick had Neville leave the house and hide in a nearby ravine.

His youngest daughter, Eleanor, married William Marshal's son, also called William, and later the famous English rebel Simon de Montfort.

Interpretations of Magna Carta and the role of the rebel barons in 1215 have been significantly revised: although the charter's symbolic, constitutional value for later generations is unquestionable, in the context of John's reign most historians now consider it a failed peace agreement between " partisan " factions.

* 1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel ( later national hero ) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson

Lalonde asserts that Trudeau's later intellectual development as an " intellectual rebel, anti-establishment fighter on behalf of unions and promoter of religious freedom " came from his experiences after leaving Quebec to study in the United States, France and England, and to travel to dozens of countries.

After halting their advance north, ten years later, Odo of Aquitaine married his daughter to Uthman ibn Naissa, a rebel Berber and lord of Cerdanya ( maybe of all current Catalonia too ), in an attempt to secure his southern borders in order to fend off Charles Martel ´ s attacks on the north.

Once the rebel forces had besieged Damascus, the French military responded with brutal counter-insurgency techniques that prefigured those that would be used later in Algeria and Indo-China.

He defeats the rebel fleet at the harbor entrance, using a sulfur-based chemical substance, similar to the later Greek fire.

* February – Peasant uprising in Dalarna, Sweden: rebel campaign fails and rebel leader, later known as Daljunkern, flees to Rostock.

This did not benefit Flaccus for long though, as Fimbria later had the army rebel against Flaccus and continue against Mithridates under his own leadership.

Initially of low standing, Gustav rose to lead the rebel movement following the bloodbath in which his father was executed, and his election as King on June 6, 1523 ( currently recognised as the National holiday of Sweden ) and his triumphant entry into Stockholm eleven days later meant the end of Medieval Sweden's elective monarchy as well as the Kalmar Union, which had united the Nordic kingdoms since 1397, and the commencing of a hereditary monarchy under the House of Vasa which, currently under the House of Bernadotte, continues to date.

* 232 BC – Xiang Yu, Chinese rebel general against the Qin Dynasty, as well as the later arch nemesis of Liu Bang in the civil war of the Chu-Han contention ( d. 202 BC )

However Muskar I a. k. a. Hveghi may be inspired by George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, Albanian rebel and later ruler.

* Xiang Yu, Chinese rebel general against the Qin Dynasty, as well as the later arch nemesis of Liu Bang in the civil war of the Chu-Han contention ( d. 202 BC )

In 1968 Pierre Mulele, Lumumba's Minister of Education and later a rebel leader during the 1964 Simba rebellion, was lured out of exile in Brazzaville on the assumption that he would be amnestied, but was tortured and killed by Mobutu's forces.

The Emperor rewarded Leo with two palaces, but later exiled him for marrying the daughter of another rebel, the patrician Arsaber.

Tissaphernes claimed to have killed the rebel himself, with the result that Parysatis later took cruel vengeance upon the slayer of her favorite son.

In the following year, age required the king to hand over the command of his armies to the Tartan ( turtānu commander-in-chief ) Dayyan-Assur, and six years later, Nineveh and other cities revolted against him under his rebel son Assur-danin-pal.

Hamicar defeated the rebels at Macar, but was later trapped by the rebels, from which he was saved by the defection of Navaras and his cavalry from the rebel ranks.

Cookstown, being in the heartland of Ulster insurgency, was abandoned to the rebels who immediately seized the important Iron works at Lios Áine ( later Lissan ) and the area became a hotbed of activity as weapons such as pikes were forged for the rebel cause.

Although imperial propaganda issued on behalf of Septimius Severus later claimed that Niger was the first to rebel against Didius Julianus, it was Severus who beat Niger to it, claiming the imperial title on April 9.

Her death at Chan's hands later prompts him to rebel against the Federation in Quess ' name, which is detailed in the novel Hathaway's Flash.

Fonda's movie career has been made all the more interesting by the extreme contrast between the wide-eyed and questing ( though possibly amoral, certainly drug-dealing ) rebel motorcyclist in Easy Rider and the upright war-veteran father he played nearly three decades later in Ulee's Gold — a character who tries to share the wisdom of age with his defiantly nihilistic son and who saves his addicted daughter-in-law's life.