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* The French Resistance during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] of course. They were in contact with the Free French GovernmentInExile of UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle in London. The Free French entrusted men such as Jean Moulin to convince groups of varying persuasions (including royalists, patriots, communists, anarchists and social democrats) to more or less bury their hatchet and fight against the German occupiers and LesCollaborateurs. For instance, conservative Catholics could find themselves fighting alongside Communists, though not always in the same group. The aforementioned Jean Moulin managed to create the , then was caught and tortured to death by UsefulNotes/TheGestapo. Some French communist groups got orders from UsefulNotes/JosefStalin's [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] meanwhile, they notoriously did not take part to any resistance action until Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941.
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* The French Resistance during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] of course. They were in contact with the Free French GovernmentInExile of UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle in London. The Free French entrusted men such as Jean Moulin to convince groups of varying persuasions (including royalists, patriots, communists, anarchists and social democrats) to more or less bury their hatchet and fight against the German occupiers and LesCollaborateurs. For instance, conservative Catholics could find themselves fighting alongside Communists, though not always in the same group. The aforementioned Jean Moulin managed to create the , National Council of the Resistance (CNR), then was caught and tortured to death by UsefulNotes/TheGestapo. Some French communist groups got orders from UsefulNotes/JosefStalin's [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] meanwhile, they notoriously did not take part to any resistance action until Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941.
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** UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}} declared independence just two days after Japan surrendered and weeks before the Allied forces arrived to recover the [=POWs=] and civilian internees. The Allies weren't interested nor equipped to reestablish the colonial government, especially in Java where the resistance already raided the Japanese armory. Took almost a year for the Dutch to bring enough troops to try retaking the colony, the costly battle against the dug-in resistance turned the war-weary world opinion against the war, especially the US which was paying Western Europe to rebuild.
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* This trope is OlderThanFeudalism: According to legend, UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic's foundation in 509 B.C. originated as this after noblewoman UsefulNotes/{{Lucretia}} was [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] by Sextus Tarquinius, the son of the tyrannical King UsefulNotes/TarquiniusSuperbus. What resulted was Lucius Junius Brutus leading a group of aristocrats in a revolution that overthrew UsefulNotes/TheRomanKingdom.
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* This trope is OlderThanFeudalism: According to legend, UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic's foundation in 509 B.C. originated as this after noblewoman UsefulNotes/{{Lucretia}} was [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] by Sextus Tarquinius, the son of the tyrannical King UsefulNotes/TarquiniusSuperbus. What resulted was Lucius Junius Brutus leading a group of aristocrats in a revolution that overthrew and ended UsefulNotes/TheRomanKingdom.
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* This trope is OlderThanFeudalism: the Judean Zealots who sought to overthrow Roman rule in the 1st century A.D. were possibly the first example of a national resistance movement in history. Needless to say, they failed and the Jews ended up becoming diaspora across the Mediterranean and the Roman Empire.
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* This trope is OlderThanFeudalism: According to legend, UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic's foundation in 509 B.C. originated as this after noblewoman UsefulNotes/{{Lucretia}} was [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] by Sextus Tarquinius, the son of the tyrannical King UsefulNotes/TarquiniusSuperbus. What resulted was Lucius Junius Brutus leading a group of aristocrats in a revolution that overthrew UsefulNotes/TheRomanKingdom.
* Another ancient example were the Judean Zealots who sought to overthrow Roman rule in the 1st century A.D. werepossibly among the first example examples of a national resistance movement in history. Needless to say, they failed and the Jews ended up becoming diaspora across the Mediterranean and the Roman Empire.UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire.
* Another ancient example were the Judean Zealots who sought to overthrow Roman rule in the 1st century A.D. were
