Brief explanation of historical events relating to Animal Farm.

1. Animal Farm Allusion
By Jeremiah Reed and Cole Davis
Battle of Cowshed; is it an
allusion to Red October?

2. The Battle of Cowshed Background
The Battle of cowshed took place
when Mr. Jones got men from the
Foxwood farm to try and over throw
Animal Farm. The attacked animal
for and got defeated by the animals.
One sheep got killed when Mr.
Jones tried to shoot Snowball.

3. 1917 Red October Background
The Russian Revolution started October 3rd, 1917.
Lenin was a key member of the Russian
Revolution. He attended meetings to help discuss
the over throwing of Czar Nicholas. Lenin insisted
that the transfer of power from the Provisional
Government to the Bolsheviks take this
militarized form rather than the political form of a
vote by the forthcoming All-Russian Congress of
Soviets. At 2 AM on October 26th, the rebels
broke into the ministers house and captured him.

4. Red October Story
•The Hunt for Red October (1990)
was inspired by the actual story of a
Russian war vessel who is taken
over by the crew and Valery Sablin.
•Sablin was a idealistic man who
loved his country but loved
freedom more.

5. • In fact, Red October actually happened although it
was not to the scale or in exactly the same manner
as it is portrayed, the mutiny occurred on November
8, 1975,a Soviet Krivak-class missile frigate,
attempted to run from Riga, Latvia, to the Swedish
island of Gotland. The political officer aboard, Valery
Sablin, led a mutiny of the enlisted personnel. Sablin
and 26 others were court-martialled and shot.'
However, the real story of the Red October was
hidden at the time by the Soviet government and
only now have been revealed

6. The Battle of Cowpens Background
The Battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781, took
place in the latter part of the Southern
Campaign of the American Revolution. The
term “cowpens”, endemic to such South
Carolina pastureland and associated early
cattle industry. The field itself was some 500
yards long and just as wide, a park-like setting
dotted with trees, but devoid of
undergrowth, having been kept clear by cattle
grazing in the spring on native grasses and
peavine.

7. Tarleton pressed the attack head on, his line
extending across the meadow, his artillery in the
middle, and fifty Dragoons on each side. It was as
if Morgan knew he would make a frontal assault –
it was his style of fighting. To face Tarleton, he
organized his troops into three lines. First, out
front and hiding behind trees were selected
sharpshooters. At the onset of battle they picked
off numbers of Tarleton’s Dragoons, traditionally
listed as fifteen, shooting especially at officers,
and warding off an attempt to gain initial
supremacy. With the Dragoons in retreat, and
their initial part completed, the sharpshooters
retreated 150 yards or more back to join the
second line, the militia commanded by Andrew
Pickens.

8. Morgan used the militia well, asking them to get off
two volleys and promised their retreat to the third
line made up of John Eager Howard’s Continentals,
again close to 150 yards back. Some of the militia
indeed got off two volleys as the British neared,
but, as they retreated and reached supposed safety
behind the Continental line, Tarleton sent his
feared Dragoons after them. As the militia dodged
behind trees and parried saber slashes with their
rifles, William Washington’s Patriot cavalry
thundered onto the field of battle, seemingly, out
of nowhere. The surprised British Dragoons,
already scattered and sensing a rout, were
overwhelmed, and according to historian Babits,
lost eighteen men in the clash.

9. Morgan rode up to ask Howard if he
were beaten. As Howard pointed to
the unbroken ranks and the orderly
retreat and assured him they were
not, Morgan spurred his horse on
and ordered the retreating units to
face about, and then, on order, fire
in unison. The firing took a heavy
toll on the British, who, by that time
had sensed victory and had broken
ranks in a wild charge.

10. Allusion or Not An Allusion
The Battle of the Cowshed does not have ties to the
1917 Red October. The rebellion and Old Majors
speech are more closely linked to Red October
than The Battle of the Cowshed.
The Battle of the Cowshed is closely linked with The
Battle of Cowpens. The strategic thoughts of both
parts are extremely similar. Both groups had a
formal retreat and then turned to attack when
the enemies where chasing.