• REVOLUTIONARIES
• Daughters of a wealthy landowner
• After Trung Trac's husband was killed by a Chinese prefect, she and her sister began a revolt against the Chinese occupying force
• Led armies and successfully ruled a portion of independent Vietnam for two years​
• ​It took one of China's most powerful generals to retake their land
• Became symbols of freedom, immortalized in plays and folktales, as well as worshipped by cults
• Hai Ba Trung Day is a Vietnamese national holiday

Photo: statue of Hai Ba Trung (Trung Sisters) in the Suoi Tien Amusement Park. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. (cropped)

Bibliography: Drimmer, Stephanie W. National Geographic Kids: The Book of Heroines: Tales of History's Gutsiest Gals. Washington DC: National Geographic Partners, LLC, 2016. Print.
Turner, Karen. "Trung Sisters." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Vol. 4, Oxford University Press, 2008, 250.

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