Given the fate of your other 'allies' in this game, figlesquidge, do you really wonder why?
IMHO, those sheep deserved to be slaughtered, and I take my hat off to you for doing so. I have never seen such a bunch of scared rabbits in my many years of playing. These people refused to attack you from start to finish, although I was spoon feeding them advice from spring 1901. They ignored it. They are dead.
Again, kudos to you for this inexplicable control.
Kudos, as well, to my most honourable ally, withnail160. withnail160 took over from a CD, assessed the situation correctly, and executed flawlessly.