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Agaté

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{{Quote|It was your responsibility to know, as much as mine, Agaté. I was a child when you brought me into the Brotherhood and made me an Assassin. You pretended to protect me, to root out the enemy!|Aveline to Agaté regarding his position as Mentor, 1777.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = AgateDatabaseHD.png
|birth = c. 1722<br>[[Africa|West Africa]]
|death = 1777<br>[[Louisiana Bayou]], [[Louisiana|Spanish Louisiana]], {{Wiki|New Spain}}
|affiliates = [[Assassins]] <small>(1732 – death)</small>
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''
|voice = [[Tristan D. Lalla]]}}
'''Agaté''' (c. 1722 – 1777) was the [[Mentor]] of the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]] in [[Louisiana]], operating from his [[Agaté's Hut|hideout]] in the [[Louisiana Bayou]].

[[Slavery|Enslaved]] from a young age, Agaté came into contact with revolutionary disruptor [[François Mackandal]], who taught him the ways of the Assassins. Following the death of his Mentor in 1758, Agaté traveled to Louisiana, a marked man, and hid in the bayou.

Agaté subsequently established the local Assassin guild, recruiting [[Aveline de Grandpré]] and [[Gérald Blanc]], whom he trained to be his agents in [[New Orleans]]. After the [[Templars]]' presence in the bayou notably increased in 1766, Agaté went further into hiding, constructing a hidout deep within the swamp.

Although Agaté cared for his students, he was quite secretive in his dealings with them. Due to Aveline's natural impulsiveness and disinclination to follow orders, Agaté clashed with her frequently and eventually began to doubt her loyalty to the cause. Over the years, their mutual distrust of each another caused the two to grow apart.

When Aveline returned to Agaté in 1777 to tell him that Louisiana's head Templar had been her own [[Madeleine de L'Isle|stepmother]] all along, Agaté attacked Aveline, believing her to have betrayed the Assassins. His student managed to prove victorious, however, causing Agaté, who was overwhelmed with humiliation, to leap to his death from the top of his treehouse.

==Biography==
===Early life===
{{Quote|He calls himself François Mackandal, my own mentor – the leader, the priest, the Brother, to whose cause I devoted my life. He was put to death by fire. I failed to prevent it.|Agaté on his Mentor, 1766.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
Born on the western coast of [[Africa]] around 1722, Agaté was captured by slave traders at the age of seven.<ref name="Encyclopedia">''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]''</ref> Transported to the [[United States|Americas]], he eventually ended up on a [[Sugar plantations|plantation]] on [[Haiti|Saint-Domingue]]. There, he became acquainted with two other slaves, [[Baptiste]] and [[Jeanne]], and fell in love with the latter.<ref name="AC3L">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''</ref>

In 1732, the trio came into contact with the Assassin François Mackandal, who took them under his wing and taught them to read and write. Unlike Jeanne, who was kept in the dark about the Brotherhood, Agaté, along with Baptiste, was trained to become a full-fledged Assassin, receiving tuition in the use of poisons and weapons.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> When Jeanne found out about Mackandal's violent ways, she grew frightened of him, causing the relationship between Agaté and Jeanne to become strained.<ref name="AC3L"/>

In 1738, Agaté officially joined the Assassin Brotherhood, following which he escaped the plantation at Saint-Domingue with Mackandal and Baptiste; Jeanne refused to join them and stayed behind. For many years he fought alongside his Mentor, until a failed attempt to poison the white colonists of Saint-Domingue resulted in the capture and execution of Mackandal in 1758. Abandoning Baptiste, Agaté tried to re-establish contact with Jeanne, whom he still loved, but found out she had been sold to a [[Merchants|merchant]] and taken to New Orleans.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>

===Mentor of the Louisiana Brotherhood===
{{Dialogue|Agaté|What is an Assassin without discipline? You will regret your insubordination.|Aveline|I'll take that chance.|Agaté and Aveline during an argument, 1768.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
After he arrived in the city, Agaté soon learned that Jeanne had already left Louisiana, her destination unknown. Following his discovery that Jeanne had a daughter, Aveline, who still lived in the city, he decided to remain in New Orleans and keep watch over her. In 1759, Aveline took it upon herself to rescue a slave, but was caught in the act, prompting a swift intervention from Agaté.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>

Impressed by her dedication to pursuing freedom and justice, he took Aveline on as his pupil and, following a few months of intense training,<ref name="ACI">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref> inducted her into the Assassin Brotherhood.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> That same year, Agaté also recruited Gérald Blanc, Aveline's childhood friend, and trained him to become a spy and information officer. In tutoring them both, Agaté became more of a Mentor for the Assassins than a warrior, which made him a target for the Templars, who were gaining power in the region.<ref name="AC3L"/>

Agaté subsequently hid in the Louisiana Bayou for safety, establishing a network of servant contacts and designating Aveline and Gérald as his agents within the city. When a nascent [[Baptiste's followers|cult]] came to the swamp in March 1766, Agaté, suspecting Templar influence, retreated further into the bayou and built himself a hideout. After he learned that the followers' leader was calling himself "François Mackandal", Agaté sent word to Aveline to come meet him.<ref name="AC3L"/>

[[File:The False Mackandal 2.png|thumb|250px|left|Agaté giving Aveline her blowpipe]]
Following the arrival of his student, Agaté informed Aveline of the situation and then assigned her the task of uncovering the false Mackandal's identity and affiliations. Before his student's departure, he handed her a [[blowpipe]], and recommended she seek out the smuggler [[Élise Lafleur]], who might be able to help Aveline in locating her target.<ref name="AC3L"/>

Some time later, Aveline returned to inform Agaté that the imposter, who had been working together with [[Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]], had been eliminated. When her Mentor inquired further, Aveline remained deliberately vague; in actuality, she had discovered from the imposter, who had been Baptiste, that Agaté and her mother had known each other. The fact that Agaté had chosen to keep this connection hidden from his student strained the relationship between the two, with Aveline visiting less in the following years.<ref name="AC3L"/>

In 1768, Agaté sought to deal with the perpetrator of a rash of disappearances in New Orleans. Like Gérald, Agaté believed the Templar governor [[Antonio de Ulloa]] to be responsible and subsequently sent word to Aveline to meet him in [[Saint Peter's Cemetery]], his last safe haven within the city. There, he gave her the order to assassinate De Ulloa to prove her loyalty to the Brotherhood, as Agaté found his faith in Aveline to be faltering.<ref name="AC3L"/>

[[File:A Governor No More 8.png|thumb|250px|Aveline showing Agaté the Templar lens de Ulloa gave her]]
While Agaté remained in the cemetery, Aveline carried out her mission, setting up an ambush and then cornering the governor. However, she decided to spare his life in return for more information that could help her dismantle the Templars' slave trafficking operation.<ref name="AC3L"/>

Regardless of her success in procuring a valuable Templar lens and learning more about the Templars' machinations, Agaté lost faith in his student, as she had disobeyed his direct orders. When Aveline then expressed her intention of journeying to [[Chichen Itza]] to seek out the Templars, Agaté explicitly forbade her to go, though his student defiantly ignored this command and went anyways. In the years that followed, Agaté and Aveline began to grow apart even further.<ref name="AC3L"/>

During Aveline's absence, rogue [[Spain|Spanish]] soldiers began raising havoc in the bayou, intent on seizing control of it. In response, Agaté set up several voodoo signs near the swamp's only road, in an effort to scare away the troops. In 1771, Aveline returned from Chichen Itza, hoping to make amends, though Agaté refused to acknowledge her and only grew angrier when she presented him with a piece of a [[First Civilization]] artifact known as the [[Prophecy Disks|Prophecy Disk]].<ref name="AC3L"/>

[[File:Power of Voodoo 4.png|thumb|250px|left|Agaté telling Aveline of his plans]]
Agaté told Aveline that she should not have unearthed the relic, ordering her to remove it from his sight at once. As she put the object away, Aveline attempted to warn her Mentor of the troops that had been bribed by the Templar [[Diego Vázquez|Vázquez]], though Agaté replied that he was already well aware of their presence, having made plans to outwit them.<ref name="AC3L"/>

Aveline then offered her help in ousting the intruders from the bayou. Agaté begrudgingly accepted, instructing his student to silently poison members of a patrol as they passed his voodoo signs, thus making the troops believe they had fallen under a voodoo curse. Despite this brief success, Agaté and Aveline remained distant and would not meet again for several years.<ref name="AC3L"/>

===Confrontation with Aveline===
{{Quote|You would fit me a coward's slow, pointless death? As you did Ulloa? I will not live with the dishonor. I–|Agaté before committing suicide, 1777.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
In 1777, Agaté was visited at his hut by Aveline, who had discovered the identity of the Company Man, Louisiana's head Templar. However, embittered as he was by her long absences, Agaté was less than welcoming and, upon the revelation that the Company Man had been Aveline's own stepmother, came to believe she had been turned to the Templar cause. His paranoia pushing him into attacking her, he threw down a bomb of hallucinogenic poison, causing her to experience visions of the Templars she had previously slain.<ref name="AC3L"/>

[[File:Confronting Agate 8.png|thumb|250px|Agaté falling to his death]]
While Aveline was tormented by phantoms, Agaté ascended his treehouse and taunted his student as she attempted to chase after him. The Assassin eventually managed to see through the poison-induced illusions and followed her Mentor, trying to make him see reason and tell her what the shards of the Prophecy Disk were actually for.<ref name="AC3L"/>

Agaté refused to answer, however, and was eventually cornered at the highest point of his hideout. Despite Agaté's bitter raving, Aveline chose to spare her Mentor, ordering him to run and never return to New Orleans. Overcome with shame and humiliation, Agaté instead jumped from the treetop platform. Despite Aveline's attempt to save her Mentor, she was only able to grasp his necklace which snapped as he plunged to his death.<ref name="AC3L"/>

==Legacy==
{{Quote|Initial reports on Aveline de Grandpré led us to believe she would be too controversial and impulsive to appeal to a wide audience. Teenaged memories show her brainwashed and trained to kill political foes of her highly unstable Mentor, Agaté.|A biased market analysis of Aveline's memories.|Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag}}
In the 21st century, the Templar-run [[Abstergo Industries]], a corporate giant, had one their [[Abstergo Entertainment|subsidiaries]] produce a [[Liberation|video game]] based on Aveline de Grandpré's [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]]. In it, Agaté was portrayed as an unpredictable psychopath that manipulated individuals such as Aveline and Gérald into doing his dirty work, glossing over his life as a slave and love for Jeanne.<ref name="AC3L"/>

==Personality and characteristics==
{{Quote|Mentor, do not force my hand! The Agaté who trained me is a man of truth and courage. I know he still lives within you. Let him out again!|Aveline trying to get through to Agaté, 1777.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
Suffering much abuse while he was on Saint-Domingue, Agaté's experiences on the island would severely scar him, both physically and emotionally. To cope, he dedicated himself to the teachings of Mackandal and spent the remainder of his free time in the company of Jeanne, whom he loved dearly. However, Agaté was eventually forced to cut ties with Jeanne to prove his commitment to the Brotherhood, a decision he would come to regret in his later years. Indeed, throughout most of his life, he would have trouble mentally processing their broken relationship.<ref name="AC3L"/>

[[File:Meet the Smugglers 1.png|thumb|250px|left|Agaté recommending Aveline seek out Élise Lafleur]]
Nonetheless, Agaté remained devoted to the Assassin cause, even after the death of Mackandal, establishing a guild in Louisiana and assuming the position of Mentor. Although a recluse, he appeared to be a very experienced and invaluable mentor to his students, as evidenced by his interactions with Aveline. With his stern nature serving to balance out the young Assassin's more impulsive tendencies, Agaté patiently trained Aveline and was not above offering her advice before she left on missions.<ref name="AC3L"/>

However, Agaté was also secretive, never telling Aveline of the past relationship he had shared with her mother. As well as this, he appeared dishonest at times, stating that the blowpipe he had given to Aveline had originally been Mackandal's. This claim was later contested by Baptiste, who said the blowpipe had been his originally, calling into question the veracity of Agaté's words.<ref name="AC3L"/>

Agaté's secrecy would eventually damage his relationship with Aveline, as his student would later find out about his connection to Jeanne by herself. Already suffering from paranoia due to the experiences he endured in his youth, Agaté believed her growing distance signaled a faltering loyalty to the Brotherhood. On one occasion he even admitted to having a dream of Aveline turning her back on the Order.<ref name="AC3L"/>

[[File:A Governor No More 9.png|thumb|250px|Agaté arguing with Aveline]]
As these feelings took root, Agaté grew harsher in his interactions with Aveline, openly calling her loyalty into question and insinuating she was conspiring with Gérald. Aveline's subsequent decision to spare governor Antonio de Ulloa, when Agaté had explicitly ordered her to kill him, shattered Agaté's trust in his pupil. Despite the fact that Aveline wished to pursue the goals of the Brotherhood by traveling to [[Mexico]], Agaté forbade her to go, his judgment clouded by his feelings of anger and betrayal.<ref name="AC3L"/>

When Aveline returned several years later, Agaté had grown so embittered he claimed he didn't recognize her and refused to acknowledge her successes. So resentful had he become of his student that he no longer wished to indulge her questions, as he might have done before, instead relishing in the lack of them.<ref name="AC3L"/>

In the end, Agaté's paranoia drove him to attack his student, after she had called him out on his failings - particularly, his tendency to inaction. Employing a hallucinogenic poison, he gained the upper hand and taunted her, his former affection for her having been twisted into hatred. When he was beaten, however, Agaté's lifelong frustrations, shame and self-doubt drove him to commit suicide.<ref name="AC3L"/>

===Equipment and skills===
{{Quote|No! It cannot be! Agaté... What have you done to me?|Aveline under the influence of Agaté's poisons, 1777.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
Agaté was a skilled [[Freerunning|freerunner]], being able to navigate the bayou's many trees with ease. Similarly, he constructed his hideout in such a way that it was only accessible to the most adept of climbers. On one occasion, Agaté requested his student to meet him in New Orleans' graveyard, and could subsequently be found perched on the roof of a chapel.<ref name="AC3L"/>

Agaté was also proficient in the use of poisons, making use of them on several occasions; he used them in conjunction with voodoo signs to make a patrol believe they'd fallen under a voodoo curse. When confronted by Aveline, he used a certain hallucinogen that hindered her ability to see and made lifeless practice dolls appear to be hostile and human, as well as creating the illusion that he could vanish and reappear a distance away.<ref name="AC3L"/>

==Trivia==
*Both Agaté and Baptiste considered the avenging of slaves by killing white colonists a life goal of theirs, even as Assassins, despite the fact that doing so would be tantamount to breaking [[the Creed]]'s first tenet.
*Agaté's battle with Aveline was similar to the one between [[Rashid ad-Din Sinan|Al Mualim]] and [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], as both featured a Mentor figure summoning illusions of their pupil's former targets to defeat them.
*Agaté's relationship with Aveline also mirrored the relationship between [[Achilles Davenport]] and [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]], as both Mentors led guilds that were relatively small-scale or non-existent at all, with a headstrong Assassin under their tutelage. However, where Achilles steadily warmed up to Ratonhnhaké:ton, Agaté instead lost faith in Aveline, to the point of resenting her.
*Agaté was a practitioner of Voodoo, of which varying symbols could be spotted on his person and his hideout – his right bracer adorned the symbol of {{Wiki|Damballa}}, the door on his cabin's first floor displayed the symbol of {{Wiki|Papa Legba}}, while the second floor altar showed the symbol of {{Wiki|Baron Samedi}}.
*Concept art of Agaté could be seen hanging on the walls of [[Abstergo Entertainment]]'s offices in [[Montreal]].
*Agate is a gemstone renowned for its bright hues and fine grain. Agaté's name is also similar to the Greek form of the name Agatha, ''Agathe'', which is derived from the word ''agathos'' meaning "good".

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
ACL CA SP 08 Agate.jpg|Concept art of Agaté
Agate Database.png|Agaté's appearance in the Vita iteration
The False Mackandal 1.png|Agaté telling Aveline of Mackandal's imposter
The Whole Truth 1.png|Agaté congratulating Aveline on her success
Power of Voodoo 3.png|Agaté dismissing Aveline
Confronting Agate 7.png|Agaté being confronted by Aveline
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{AC3L}}
[[Category:1722 births]]
[[Category:1777 deaths]]
[[Category:Individuals]]
[[Category:Africans]]
[[Category:Maroons]]
[[Category:Assassins]]
[[Category:Mentors]]
[[Category:Individuals who held Pieces of Eden]]

Baptiste's Acolytes

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{{Quote|The false Mackandal gathers followers. They attempt to overtake smuggling operations on the bayou – to finance what, I cannot say.|Agaté, on the followers of Baptiste, 1766.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
[[File:Meet_the_Smugglers_5.png|thumb|250px|Two of Baptiste's followers]]
'''Baptiste's followers''' were a cult of former [[Africa]]n [[Slavery|slaves]] operating under [[Baptiste]], an escaped slave from [[Haiti|Saint-Domingue]]. Baptiste's followers operated throughout the [[Louisiana Bayou]], attempting to overthrow the regime of the local smuggler group, which was headed by [[Élise Lafleur]] and [[Roussillon]].

==History==
After the death of Baptiste's [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Mentor]] [[François Mackandal]] in 1758, his brother [[Agaté]] left Saint-Domingue for [[Louisiana]]. Feeling betrayed, Baptiste gave up on the Assassin Brotherhood and formed his own Maroon society, pretending to be François Mackandal himself.

By 1766, Baptiste had formed an alliance with the [[Templars|Templar Order]] in Louisiana in hopes of joining them. As a result, Baptiste's followers were tricked into serving the Templars' goals. In 1766, Baptiste and his followers were plotting to murder the nobles of [[New Orleans]] to avenge the local slaves, and were thwarting the local smuggling ring's efforts in the bayou area.

During a ceremony on the Eve of Saint John in 1766, the Assassin [[Aveline de Grandpré]], trained by Agaté, killed Baptiste and effectively forced the cult's disbandment. A few holdouts remained active throughout the bayou, who were later exterminated by Aveline on the advice of smuggler Roussillon.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
ACL CA SP 10 MackandalSoldiers.jpg|Concept art of Baptiste's followers
A Faithful Acolyte 5.png|A group of followers attacking Aveline
Eve of Saint John 4.png|The followers being lured away by Élise
</gallery>

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''
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[[Category:Cults]]
[[Category:Templar-affiliated groups]]
[[Category:Guards]]

British Army

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{{Quote|The enemy advances and you tremble. They've better numbers, you say. Better weapons. Better training.|[[Israel Putnam]] describing Continental reaction to the British regulars.|Assassin's Creed III}}
{{Faction Infobox
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|leader = Monarch of the [[United Kingdom|British Empire]]
|headquarters = Whitehall, London, England
|locations = *Britain
*[[United States|British America]] (Industrial era)
*[[France]] (First World War)
*British Empire (Industrial - [[Modern times|Modern era]])
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The '''British Army''' was a branch of the {{Wiki|British Armed Forces|Armed Forces}} of the [[United Kingdom|Kingdom of Great Britain]], alongside the [[Royal Navy]] and, later, the {{Wiki|Royal Air Force}}. It was formed in 1707 with the {{Wiki|Acts of Union 1707|Act of Union}} and focused on land-based warfare. Following Great Britain's triumph over the [[France|Kingdom of France]] in the [[French and Indian War]], which ended in 1763, the soldiers of the British Army occupied [[United States|Colonial America]] during the events of the [[American Revolutionary War]].

The superior discipline, skill-at-arms, equipment, organization, brutality and reputation of the British Army were major sources of intimidation to the initially amateur soldiers of the [[Continental Army]] during the American Revolution. During the conflict, the British Army received military support from their {{Wiki|Hessian (soldiers)|Hessian}} allies, mainly in the form of [[Jägers]].

The soldiers of the British Army, known as the Regulars, were often referred to as "Redcoats" or "Lobster-backs" by the general population during the [[American Revolution]], due to their distinctive red uniforms. While the facings of the uniform were known to vary by regiment, the red dye was maintained by most British troops, excluding the Horse Guards, bombardiers and riflemen.

==Arms and tactics==
The British Infantry Regulars of the 18th century were armed with the standard British Army smoothbore [[Firearms|flintlock musket]], often known as the {{Wiki|Brown Bess}}, and a fifteen inch [[Bayonets|socket bayonet]] that could be locked onto the end of the musket barrel, which was often employed when receiving cavalry or, obviously, during a bayonet charge. The battle cry "Huzzah" often accompanied a bayonet charge, for intimidation. Dragoons and other cavalry were armed with carbines and swords.

[[File:ACIII-Soldier 13.png|thumb|left|250px|Haytham Kenway fighting several British soldiers]]
British soldiers were drilled extensively in the use of these primary weapons, until they could load and fire their muskets with their eyes closed. A well-trained infantryman could average around three shots per minute from his musket, whereas a sub-par soldier could accomplish perhaps two. British officers usually armed themselves with flintlock pistols and [[Swords and maces|sabers]], although it was not unknown for light infantry officers to carry their own musket or rifle as the war progressed.

When on patrol, British soldiers usually marched in a column of 6-9 men. These groups consisted of one commissioned [[Officers|Officer]], a [[Snitches|Drummer]], four Regulars, and four [[Grenadiers]]. These numbers changed over the course of the Revolutionary War.

[[File:Battle of Bunker Hill 3.png|thumb|250px|British regulars at Bunker Hill]]
The British greatly emphasized mass line infantry fire and prized discipline. In this regard, punishment was strict for deserters and disobedience. Mass line infantry differed from, for example, the French firing patterns. The firing line allowed for the maximum number of muskets to be brought to bare on a target, and therefore the highest volume of fire.

The guerrilla warfare of the rebels was frowned upon by the British commanders, who considered it dishonorable, though the British Army did deploy similarly-trained soldiers. Many of the rebels were in fact trained by the British as light infantry, or "light bobs", and such units continued to be employed by the British, though they were scarcely used in place of line fire. It was found, however, that such guerrilla warfare, over time, was highly effective against the line and file tactics of the day, though the Regulars were hard to match in pitched battles or over open ground.

Historically however, despite this advantage, the rebels had difficuties facing British cavalry even with the latter's use being limited in the war. The British 16th and 17th Light Dragoons in particular became a terror to the Patriot forces as many veterans of the French and Indian War in the colonies were not experienced in facing cavalry charges.

In the Battle of White Plains, British cavalrymen had broken the ranks of colonial forces. Fortunately for the rebels, it was costly to bring large number of cavalry units to the American continent and the terrain made it difficult to deploy horses. The lack of major cavalry support on the British side, allowed George Washington to retreat in many disastrous battles, such as the Battle of Long Island.

As many battles were focused around ranks of line infantry unleashing volleys of synchronized musket fire, and often in pursuit of an objective; many thousands of lives would be laid down for a small gain. The discipline of the British would allow soldiers to march past and over their fallen comrades and continue to fight for their objective, with a ferocity bred from poverty, as were the conditions in which many of the infantry were raised. Once the enemy lines faltered, British Dragoons and other cavalry units would draw swords and charge to cut down the remaining enemy soldiers.

==Trivia==
* Despite the British Army having withdrawn from {{Wiki|Colonial America}} in 1783, remnants of British Regulars could still be found around the [[Frontier]], [[Boston]], and [[New York City|New York]].
*The Grenadiers resembled a {{Wiki|Pioneer (military)|pioneer}}, which was a military unit whose tasks are specifically for construction and engineering, rather than actual grenadiers, who were used as elite troops to storm enemy battlements and fortifications.
*British officer uniforms were based on the era's {{Wiki|Dragoon guards|Dragoons}}. Historically, however, Dragoons served as mounted heavy cavalry, rather than footsoldiers.
*In the ''[[The Tyranny of King Washington]]'', the British military joined in the rebellion against [[George Washington|King Washington]], evidenced by many red-coated corpses strewn around the Frontier and other cities.
* In [[Assassin's Creed III]], there are various instances of British soldiers being called lobsterbackss by the populace. This insult was commonly used in Colonial America for British soldiers due to the red color of their uniforms.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Redcoat infantry concept by Sergey Kalinen.jpg|Concept art of a British infantryman
British soldier concept illustration.jpg|Concept art of a British soldier
ACIII-CA-Jager.png|Concept art of a Jäger
Dangerous Secret by Max Qin.jpg|Illustration of British soldiers
Concept art of a British Army encampment.jpg|Concept art of [[Ratonhnhaké:ton|Connor]] surveying a British army encampment
AC3 British Leader.png|A British officer
AC3 British Brute.png|A British grenadier
AC3 REDCOATS.png|A contingent of British soldiers
British Army camp in the Frontier.jpg|A British army camp in the Frontier
ACIII-GI (2).jpg|Connor watching a British patrol
ACIII-GI (3).jpg|Connor fighting three British soldiers
ACIII-GI (7).jpg|Connor being halted by a British soldier
Connorstabbing.jpg|Connor killing two British soldiers
ACIII British Encampment SS.jpg|In-game image of a British encampment
</gallery>

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''
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Spanish Army

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[[File:The Prodigal Daughter 5.png|thumb|250px|Spanish guards in New Orleans]]
The '''Spanish Army''' is the land-based branch of the {{Wiki|Spanish Armed Forces}}, whose first activity dates back to the 15th century, during the reign of [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|King Ferdinand II]] and [[Isabella I of Castile|Queen Isabella]].

==History==
During the [[Renaissance]], the soldiers of the newly unified [[Spain]] fought with the [[Moors]] for control of [[Granada]], and enforced the [[Spanish Inquisition]]. [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] came into conflict with many [[guards]] when he came to the country to rescue several [[Spanish Assassins]], who had been arrested by the Inquisition after [[Rodrigo Borgia]] had given [[Tomás de Torquemada|Tomas de Torquemada]] a list of their names.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed II: Discovery]]''</ref>

In 1507, Spanish forces were engaged in a civil war, where [[Louis de Beaumont]] defended [[Viana]] from an attack by [[Cesare Borgia]], who commanded a mainly-Spanish army on behalf of [[John III of Navarre|King John of Navarre]]. Ezio came to assassinate Cesare, but was attacked by troops on both sides who mistook him for an enemy.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref> Despite this, Ezio assassinated Cesare, earning him Ferdinand's gratitude.<ref>[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' novel]]</ref>

During the [[Age of Discovery]], Spanish soldiers and scholars known as {{Wiki|conquistador}}s conquered the New World. Among them, the Assassin [[Giovanni Borgia]] served [[Hernán Cortés]] under an assumed name during the conquest of [[Mexico]]. Whereas the conquistadors mostly used this as an opportunity to loot gold from the [[Aztecs]], Giovanni obtained a [[Crystal Skulls|Crystal Skull]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' - [[Rome: Chapter 4 - Giovanni Borgia]]</ref>

Around the [[Golden Age of Piracy]] onward, the Spanish Army was widely used in the [[Templars]]' activities in the [[Caribbean]], mainly because the [[Grand Master]] of the [[Caribbean Templars]] was a Spanish governor. The Templars sent both Spanish and British soldiers to frequently attack the [[Assassins|Assassin]] hideout of [[Tulum]]. They were also assigned to guard Templars and accompanied [[Laureano de Torres y Ayala]] when he visited the [[Observatory]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''</ref>

The Army also occupied [[Louisiana]] in [[North America]] after the [[French and Indian War]], as the [[France|French]] were unwilling to surrender it to the [[United Kingdom|British]] in a peace treaty.<ref name="AC3L">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''</ref>

However, the Spanish were unpopular with the Louisianan [[Civilians|citizens]], causing a [[Louisiana Rebellion|rebellion]] when they were blamed for people disappearing. The Assassin [[Aveline de Grandpré]] antagonized them to draw the attention of governor [[Antonio de Ulloa]], from whom she learned that the disappearances were a Templar plot to divert [[Slavery|slaves]] for [[Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]], in order to excavate ruins in [[Chichen Itza]].<ref name="AC3L"/>

Some Spanish soldiers were later bribed by [[Diego Vázquez]] to occupy the [[Louisiana Bayou]] in an effort to eliminate the Assassin [[Mentor]] [[Agaté]], and to seize control of smuggling operations in the region. Later, he used his rogue soldiers to attempt to block Spanish supplies for the [[Patriots]] in [[United States|British America]],<ref name="AC3L"/> but this did not deter governor [[Bernardo de Gálvez]] from siding with the [[Continental Army]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
==Trivia==
*The Spanish soldiers in [[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]] wear yellow uniforms, while in historical reality they wore white.
*Likewise in various promotion of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, including trailers, Spanish soldiers are seen wearing white uniforms.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
GuardTypesACIID.png|Concept art of 15th century soldiers
PaxR_2.png|Ezio Auditore da Firenze fighting Spanish soldiers
AssassinPlot.png|16th century colonial soldiers guarding [[Alonso Carlo]]
Lively Havana 8.png|Spanish soldiers entering a tavern in Havana
In Vino Veritas 2.png|Spanish soldiers fighting the rioters in New Orleans
A Governor No More 4.png|Spanish guards escorting governor Ulloa
</gallery>

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