Since the French had a big rat problem, they offered to pay locals to kill the rats. But, instead of actually killing the rats, the people of Hanoi tricked them and made them have an even bigger rat problem. According to the document, “The locals began to just clip their tails off of live rats, and release them back into the sewers to breed. ” This resistance was successful because the locals made a lot of money even though they didn’t finish their job. This made it too much for the French to handle and allowed others to flee and escape. The last example of a successful resistance movement is the French education in Indochina backfiring. The French education helped make it easier for colonized people to escape by fleeing into the hills where the French had trouble reaching. The document comments, “.deep logical knowledge of the environment was an advantage the French didn’t have.” This resistance was successful because since the French told the colonists their ideas and knowledge, they used it against them along with the knowledge they had and created new ideas which helped them