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{{Location infobox
|name = United States of America
|image = Flag of the United States.png
|rulers = Presidency
|factions = [[Assassins]]<br>[[Templars]]<br>[[Continental Army]]<br>[[British Army]]
|founded = {{Wiki|Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Fathers}}
|date = 1607 (as British Colonies)<br>4 July 1776 (as United States)
|hidea = yes}}
The '''United States of America''', or simply the '''United States''', is a country in central [[North America]].

Made up of the '''thirteen Colonies of British America''' that would later become the United States, the Colonies were founded by the [[United Kingdom|British Empire]] as a part of its New World holdings, before its separation following the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The country has only fought in five major wars in its history, which were the [[French and Indian War]], American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican-American War and the [[American Civil War]].

==History==
===Early history and the French and Indian War===
The "Thirteen Colonies" were the colonial possessions of the Kingdom of Great Britain, situated on the eastern coast of North America, during the early 17th century. Sandwiched between [[France|French]] Canada and the [[Spain|Spanish]] {{wiki|Spanish Main|Main}}, the Thirteen Colonies represented, for a long time, the entirety of Great Britain's colonial territories.

In 1754, the Seven Years' War erupted in Europe, inevitably leading to conflict between the colonial territories; the [[French and Indian War]]. This ended in 1763, and saw the original Thirteen Colonies joined by the newly annexed territories of French Louisiana and Florida.

===American Revolutionary War===
{{Quote|I have fought, first as a soldier, then as a president, to forge this nation, to make it strong. And strong it has become, so strong that no force exists that could make it disappear.|George Washington in his [[George Washington's notebook|notebook]].|George Washington's notebook}}
During the 18th century, the thirteen colonies of Britain in the New World revolted against their British oppressors and raised an army, which would be referred to as the [[Continental Army]]. The [[Continental Congress]] promoted [[George Washington]] to its Commander-in-Chief, and in 1775, the American Revolutionary War began between the Continental Army and [[British Army]], due to high taxation, and, to a lesser extent, little Parliamentary representation. On July 4, 1776, the [[Founding Fathers]] signed the [[Declaration of Independence]], therefore founding the United States.

In the shadows of the conflict, the [[Assassins]] and [[Templars]] waged a secret war on both sides of the Revolution. [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]], an Assassin originally hailing from the [[Kanien'kehá:ka]] tribe, allied himself with Washington, [[Samuel Adams]] and other leaders of the American revolutionaries to continue his own personal conflict with the Templars, who fought on both sides of the conflict.

In 1783, the Continental Army under Washington stood victorious over their British adversaries, and the two nations signed the {{Wiki|Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris}}, securing the independent existence of the United States of America.<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>

===The rise of American industry===
By the end of the 19th century, the United States emerged as a leading center of industrial and technological innovation. No man better exemplified this status than [[Thomas Edison]], a prolific inventor and businessman. Unknown to all but a few, Edison was a Templar, and used his influence and connections to ensure his own financial success and discredit his opponents, particularly his fellow inventor [[Nikola Tesla]].

As Tesla intended to supply many American households with unlimited electricity, with the aid of an [[Apple of Eden 4|Apple of Eden]], Edison and the Templars used whatever means they could in order to take it from his hands and turn it against him. Later on, this Apple found its way into the hands of another titan of American industry, [[Henry Ford]].<ref name="Glyphs">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' - [[Glyphs]]</ref>

Ford, along with another Templar, [[Ransom Eli Olds|Ransom Olds]], revolutionized modern manufacturing through the perfection of the assembly line. As such, it allowed automobiles to be produced at a cost affordable enough for the middle-class American to own, but it also practically guaranteed Templar control of the American economy for the foreseeable future.<ref name="Rifts">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' - [[Rifts]]</ref>

By 1910, Ford, Olds and their fellow Templars put into place a plan designed to ensure their control of not only the United States, but of the entire world through political, military, and economic means. In 1937, these same Templars, along with sitting President (and fellow Templar) [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], founded [[Abstergo Industries]] as a front for their organization,<ref name="Abstergo Files">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' - [[Abstergo Files]]</ref> which remained a relatively anonymous corporation until the last decades of the 20th century.

===War for the Presidency===
Since its introduction, the Assassins and Templars waged a secret political struggle to gain control over the United States via its Presidency. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first known Templar to assume the Presidency, and in the process, he obtained the same Apple of Eden that Washington wielded nearly two centuries before him.<ref name="Glyphs"/> Following this, Roosevelt co-founded Abstergo Industries alongside several other Templars in 1937,<ref name="Abstergo Files"/> and orchestrated [[World War II]] along with [[Winston Churchill]], [[Joseph Stalin]] and [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref name="Glyphs">''[[Glyphs]]''</ref>

In 1961, [[John F. Kennedy]] assumed the office of the American Presidency and did not share the Templars' and Abstergo's goals. When Kennedy planned a joint venture to the [[Moon]] – where an [[Apple of Eden 5|Apple of Eden]] was located – with the [[Russia|Soviet Union]], the Templars planned Kennedy's assassination. On 22 November, Kennedy was shot by the Templar sleeper agent [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] whilst the President was driving through {{Wiki|Dallas}}, {{Wiki|Texas}}. Kennedy's driver and Secret Service agent, [[William Greer]], who was trained by Abstergo using another [[Apple of Eden 2|Apple of Eden]], stole the Apple that belonged to Kennedy in the confusion that ensued, and the Vice President and secret Templar [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] assumed the office.<ref name="Glyphs"/>

The 37th President, [[Richard Nixon]], was a Templar puppet and was influenced into supporting the deposition of the Democratically-elected Chilean President, [[Salvador Allende]]. Allende was subsequently replaced by [[Augusto Pinochet]], another pawn of Abstergo.<ref name="Rifts"/>

[[Gerald Ford]], who succeeded Nixon, was also influenced by the Templars, who used his government cabinet to support the military junta of Argentina. Under the rule of the junta, American corporations transferred their debt to the people of Argentina, and thousands of its opponents were killed.<ref name="Rifts"/>

During the late 1990s, the Assassins and Templars were engaged in a solely political war for the Presidency, with the Assassins supporting candidate [[Al Gore]] and the Templars using [[George W. Bush]] as their puppet. On 6 November 2000, the Templar sleeper agent [[Daniel Cross]] met with the [[Mentor (2000)|Mentor]] of the Assassins, and, following a subconscious command implanted into his mind by [[Warren Vidic]], killed him forthwith. Daniel later returned to Abstergo Industries in [[Philadelphia]], where he was experimented on during his youth,<ref name="ACTF3">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' - Issue #3</ref> and was tortured into revealing the locations of the Assassin hideouts he had visited.

Following this, it allowed the Templars to initiate the "[[Great Purge]]", which was a scheme designed to eradicate the Assassin hideouts specified. With the Mentor dead and the Assassins in disarray,<ref name="ACTFE">''Assassin's Creed: The Fall'' - Epilogue</ref> the Templars were successful in placing George W. Bush in the Presidential office.<ref name="Rifts"/> By 2010, the Templars still held influence over the Presidency.<ref name="Abstergo emails">[http://abstergoindustries.com/portal/ AbstergoIndustries.com]</ref> By 2014, the Order has a Grand Master in the United States.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref>

==Alternate timeline==
In an alternate timeline created by an [[Apple of Eden 2|Apple of Eden]], Washington's newly formed '''''Kingdom'' of the United States''' ruled over the former British colonies, brutally, with the help of his following allies: [[Benedict Arnold]], [[Israel Putnam]] and [[Benjamin Franklin]]. Washington even had plans to extend his holdings to Europe, starting with an invasion of Britain. This reality was short-lived, however, with the arrival of Ratonhnhaké:ton and the death of the country's ruler: King Washington.<ref name="TOKW">''Assassin's Creed III - [[The Tyranny of King Washington]]''</ref>

==Trivia==
*The Thirteen Colonies did not make up the entirety of the British holdings on the Eastern American coastline. There were at least seven other colonies; Newfoundland, Rupert's Land (the area around the Hudson Bay), Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, East Florida, West Florida, and the Province of Quebec that did not rebel during the American Revolutionary War.

==References==
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