Animal Farm AllusionBy Jeremiah Reed and Cole Davis

Battle of Cowshed; is it an allusion to Red October?

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.

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.

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.

• 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.