Assassin's Creed Wiki - User contributions [en-gb]

Motion to Impeach

2017-05-02T00:36:16Z

73.17.80.69: Adding categories

{{Era|ACS}}
{{Memory Infobox
|image =
|description = ''[[Jacob Frye|Jacob]] plans to [[Assassination targets|assassinate]] the [[James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan|Earl of Cardigan]] within the [[Palace of Westminster|Houses of Parliament]].''
|appearance = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|type = Main
|fullsync = 
*Don't kill any [[Metropolitan Police Service|policemen]].
*Do not get detected by the [[Assassination targets|target]].
|previous = [[Unbreaking the Bank]]
|next = [[Strange Bedfellows]]
|ancestor = Jacob Frye
|location = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]
|date = 1868}}
'''Motion to Impeach''' was a virtual representation of one of [[Jacob Frye]]'s [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]], relived by a [[Helix initiate]] through the [[Helix|Helix Navigator]].

==Description==
Jacob set out to assassinate the [[James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan|Earl of Cardigan]] at the [[Palace of Westminster]].

==Dialogue==
Jacob surveyed the area and saw a politician speaking to a minister.
*'''Politician 1:''' ''What's this nonsense about needing a password to see Lord Cardigan today?''
*'''Hacker:''' ''Relax. I've got it in my pocket.''
A corrupt policeman directed his men.
*'''Policeman:''' ''Look sharp, men. Allow no one past unless I authorize them.''
Politicians opposing Cardigan spoke inside Westminster Hall.
*'''Politician 2:''' ''Cardigan has gone too far this time! I've a mind to contact [[Scotland Yard]] myself.''
Meanwhile, Cardigan spoke with his fellow politicians.
*'''Cardigan:''' ''Come now, gentlemen, I'd thought us united in opposition against this perfidious law.''
Jacob stole the password from the minister.
*'''Jacob:''' ''"[[Battle of Balaclava|Balaclava]]". Of course it bloody is.''
Jacob grabbed the policeman from behind.
*'''Jacob:''' ''I just need to get inside. No need for this to get messy.''
*'''Policeman:''' ''All right, all right! Just don't hurt me!''
With the policeman in his grip, Jacob was able to walk into Westminster Hall and speak to the politician opposing Cardigan.
*'''Jacob:''' ''Pardon me, gentlemen, [[Frederick Abberline|Sergeant Freddy Abberline]] of Scotland Yard. Where might this scandalous activity be taking place?''
*'''Politician 2:''' ''Hm? Oh, yes, yes. It's, ah, just this way. Follow me, Sergeant. But discreetly, if you would. One doesn't like to be seen airing a fellow member of Parliament's dirty linen, wot?''
Jacob followed the politician to Cardigan's office.
*'''Jacob:''' ''I'll be very discreet. Usually, I would be in disguise, but my clothes all fell into the [[River Thames|Thames]]. One of my favorite disguises is a very ancient old lady, modelled after my mother. You'd be surprised how convincing I am. A tough old bird she was. Actually had a facial hair problem. We'd sell the hair for dolls. Please let me know if I am speaking too much. I am prone to flights of fancy.''
They arrived at the office, where the politician knocked on the door.
*'''Templar:''' ''Password?''
*'''Politician 2:''' ''I beg your pardon?''
*'''Templar:''' ''No password, no passage.''
*'''Politician 2:''' ''Do you know who I am? I'm a member of Parliament, you cretin!''
*'''Templar:''' ''No password, no passage, sir.''
Jacob knocked on the door.
*'''Templar:''' ''Password?''
*'''Jacob:''' ''Balaclava.''
The door was opened.
*'''Templar:''' ''Come in.''
As Jacob entered, he quickly killed the Templar with his [[Hidden Blade]] and closed the door behind him. In the meantime, Cardigan had his back turned.
*'''Cardigan:''' ''Ah, Minister Hacker. One moment. Dashed paperwork will be the death of us, wot? Give me a stout [[Horses|horse]] and a sabre and I'd have this government running as smoothly as {{Wiki|Henley Royal Regatta|Henley Regatta}}, hm. But needs must and all that. Let's see... sign here... initial... initial... and... done!''
Cardigan turned around.
*'''Cardigan:''' ''Now, then. Let's discuss this like gen- good God! Who the bloody he-''
*'''Jacob:''' ''Oh, shut up.''
Jacob slashed Cardigan's throat with his [[Hidden Blade|Hidden Blades]].
*'''Cardigan:''' ''Coward! Villain! Alas, that the hero of Balaclava should fall not on the gloried fields of {{Wiki|Crimea}}, but to an [[Assassins|Assassin]]'s blade in the very halls of power!''
*'''Jacob:''' ''Are you finished yet?''
*'''Cardigan:''' ''Take your bow, knave, for you have managed what no [[Russia]]n battery, what no [[India]]n tiger could achieve! Claim your trophy, and may you choke on it!''
*'''Jacob:''' ''Yes, but do tell me more about Balaclava.''
*'''Cardigan:''' ''Farewell! Farewell, dear [[United Kingdom|Britannia]]! Your dawn shall be dimmer that the Earl of Cardigan sees it not!''
Jacob rolled his eyes.
*'''Cardigan:''' ''God save the [[Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom|Queen]] and the {{Wiki|11th Hussars}}!''
Cardigan died.
*'''Jacob:''' ''What a prick...''
Jacob smeared his handkerchief with Cardigan's blood and escaped the Palace of Westminster.

==Outcome==
Jacob assassinated the Earl of Cardigan, severely diminishing [[Crawford Starrick|Starrick]]'s influence in politics.

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
{{ACSMemories}}
[[Category:Memories of Jacob Frye]]
[[Category:Memories relived using the Helix Navigator]]
[[Category:Articles needing images]]

James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan

2017-05-02T00:24:57Z

73.17.80.69: Adding categories

{{Era|ACS|UW|Templars}}
{{WP-REAL}}
{{Quote|Tiresome man. Always blathering on about his military adventures.|Mary Anne Disraeli describing Cardigan, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = ACS DB Lord Cardigan.jpg
|birth = 16 October 1797 {{Wiki|Hambleden}}, [[United Kingdom|Kingdom of Great Britain]]
|death = 28 March 1868 (aged 70) [[London]], United Kingdom
|affiliates = [[Templars]]
*[[British Rite of the Templar Order|British Rite]] [[British Army]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice = [[John Nelles]]|database = [[Database: Lord Cardigan|Lord Cardigan]]}}
'''James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan''' (1797 – 1868) was a general in the [[British Army]] noted for leading the {{Wiki|Charge of the Light Brigade}} during the [[Battle of Balaclava]]. He was also a member of the [[British Rite of the Templar Order|British Rite]] of the [[Templars|Templar Order]], serving as a {{Wiki|Conservative Party (UK)|Tory}} member of the {{Wiki|House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons}} and amassing vast fortunes at the expense of the working class.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Brudenell grew up in {{Wiki|Buckinghamshire}} in luxury as a member of a wealthy family, his father having inherited the Earldom of Cardigan when the former was only 17. Although he was educated at some of England's most prestigious schools, Brudenell never earned a degree. The circumstances of his joining the Templar Order are unknown, although it is likely that his position in high society brought him into the Order at a young age.

In 1818, Brudenell became a member of the House of Commons for {{Wiki|Marlborough, Wiltshire}}, a {{Wiki|Rotten and pocket boroughs|pocket borough}} owned by his cousin, the {{Wiki|Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury|Earl of Ailesbury}}. Before taking his seat in Parliament, Brudenell took the traditional {{Wiki|Grand Tour}} of [[Europe]], including [[Sweden]] and [[Russia]]. After taking his seat on his return, he became an insignificant Tory politician and worked to preserve the ancient rights of the nobility while preventing reform; this did not make him popular with the majority of his constituents, who were working or middle class.

His questionable entry into the House of Commons meant that he was eventually thrown out. During a campaign for re-election in 1832, he was assaulted and badly beaten at a rally, but was able to regain his seat in Parliament after distributing £20,000, equivalent to £1,660,000 by modern standards, among the electorate.

===Early military career===
Due to his lack of success in politics, Brudenell turned to the army and formed his own horse troop guard against potential reformist uprisings in {{Wiki|Northamptonshire}}, inspired by his youthful admiration of the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]]'s cavalry at the {{Wiki|Battle of Waterloo}}. He then joined the {{Wiki|8th King's Royal Irish Hussars}} and through the purchase of commissions, he rose from lieutenant to lieutenant general over the years. During this period, he was court-martialed for "reprehensible conduct", dismissed from the army by {{Wiki|William IV of the United Kingdom|King William IV}} himself and prosecuted for illegal dueling, all of which Cardigan managed to have reversed or dismissed thanks to his family connections.

In 1836, Brudenell was given command of the {{Wiki|11th Hussars}} and was sent to [[India]] to command his forces, although he spent a year and a half traveling there. When he arrived, the Hussars had already been stationed there for several years. After he had spent some time hunting tigers, his regiment was recalled to England. Rather than sailing aboard a warship, Brudenell traveled home separately aboard a private yacht. In the meantime, he had inherited the Earldom of Cardigan.

===Battle of Balaclava===
After the [[Crimean War]] broke out in 1853, Cardigan was sent to {{Wiki|Crimea}} as a cavalry officer alongside his brother-in-law {{Wiki|George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan|Lord Lucan}}, whom he hated. During the campaign, he spent much of his time dining aboard his yacht. After British forces under {{Wiki|FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan|Lord Raglan}} had taken {{Wiki|Balaklava|Balaclava}}, their Russian opponents captured several of their redoubts and artillery in late October 1854. In response, Raglan ordered Lucan to send the Light Brigade to harass the Russians at the captured redoubts. Due to misinformation from the officer carrying the order, Lucan ordered Cardigan to lead a direct charge against a fortified Russian artillery position at the end of the valley between the Fedyukhin Heights and the Causeway Heights.

Despite initial rumors suggesting that he had left the battle entirely, it seems most likely that Cardigan did indeed follow the order and gallop ahead, leading the cavalry directly at the Russian artillery in a surprising display of bravery. However, the charge proved a disaster, and upon reaching the Russian position, Cardigan had not realized that the Light Brigade had suffered massive casualties. After a brief fight at the artillery position, he rode back through the valley. By the end of the battle, the Light Brigade had 40% casualties.

===Return to politics and serving Starrick===
{{Quote|The asylum is shut up, medical care throughout the city is in disarray. He does not, cannot, understand the consequences of his actions. The man is clearly an anarchist!|Cardigan on Jacob Frye and the consequences of John Elliotson's death, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
Shortly afterwards, Cardigan returned to England and retired from the army a few years later. After his return to Parliament, he continued campaigning against reform and in favor of his own recognition as a war hero. He also contributed large sums of money to many veterans' charities and campaigned for the {{Wiki|Reform Act 1867|Reform Act of 1867}}. However, since the Act brought the House of Commons under the control of the upper-classes, his support for it was most likely not grounded in a change heart, but rather in an attempt strengthen the Templar grip on [[London]], and by extension, the [[British Empire]].

In 1868, the twin [[Assassins]] [[Jacob Frye|Jacob]] and [[Evie Frye]] traveled to [[London]] to break the Templars' control over the city and eliminate [[Grand Master]] [[Crawford Starrick]]. After Jacob had assassinated the Templar [[John Elliotson]], medicine shortages spread across [[Lambeth]] and the production of the mind-numbing drug ''[[Starrick's Soothing Syrup]]'' had ceased. Cardigan and his fellow Templar [[Philip Twopenny]] met with Starrick at the latter's office, telling the Grand Master about the consequences of Elliotson's death and warning him about Jacob. Starrick dismissed their concerns, mentioning the meticulous process through which he received his tea as an example of how firm and unshakable his control over London was.

===Corrupt Practices Bill===
{{Quote|I would supply all of London if I could. Meanwhile, you sit in your club and wax poetic with promises your honor cannot pay. Your family's fortune, however... I wonder what they would offer to keep your record out of the newspapers. About the same as Disraeli would offer for your balls, I'd wager. But let's be generous. Why limit ourselves to one or the other, when we can have it all? What say you, sir, shall I come collect? No more dallying. The halls of Parliament must be free to govern, again!|Starrick during a meeting with Cardigan, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
After Jacob assassinated Twopenny, who was the Governor of the [[Bank of England]], public trust in the currency dropped while inflation increased. In the meantime, Prime Minister [[Benjamin Disraeli]] introduced the [[Corrupt Practices Act|Corrupt Practices Bill]] to fight electoral fraud.

While meeting with Starrick, Cardigan expressed frustration at Parliament's lack of action and pledged to have Disraeli eliminated in order to end the Bill and maintain the Templars' influence on politics. However, Starrick scolded Cardigan for idling in the [[Sinopean Club]] rather than taking a more active role in defending Templar interests in Parliament. The Grand Master threatened him by putting a knife to his crotch and ordered him to keep the Bill from passing.

Cardigan thus hired a group of thugs to kill Disraeli and also hired a man named [[Herbert]] to tail the Prime Minister. In a letter to Starrick, he expressed his belief that Disraeli's death would halt the Corrupt Practices Bill indefinitely and Disraeli's rival and a chief opponent of the Bill, [[William Gladstone]], would be more easy to manipulate by the Templars.

However, Jacob intercepted the letter and rescued Disraeli and his wife, [[Mary Anne Disraeli|Mary Anne]]. Mary Anne identified the man Jacob sought as Cardigan and informed the Assassin that he could be found protesting the Bill at the [[Palace of Westminster]].

===Death===
{{Quote|Take your bow, knave, for you have managed what no Russian battery, what no Indian tiger could achieve! Claim your trophy, and may you choke on it! [...] God save the Queen and the 11th Hussars!|Cardigan's final words, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
While attempting to rally support in his campaign against the Corrupt Practices Bill, Cardigan prepared to meet with a government minister in a room at the Palace of Westminster while under heavy guard by several Templars. To enter the room, the password "Balaclava" was required. Jacob had acquired the password and was led to the room by one of Cardigan's politicial opponents, pretending to be Sergeant [[Frederick Abberline]] of [[Scotland Yard]].

As Jacob entered the room, he killed the guard posted there, while Cardigan himself had his back turned and was preoccupied with paperwork. After turning around, Cardigan realized that it was not the minister that had entered and began blustering in shock, but Jacob slashed his throat with his [[Hidden Blade]]s before the Templar could speak any further. As Cardigan lay dying, he lamented that he had fallen to an Assassin, rather than on the Crimean battlefield to artillery or in India to a tiger, a self-aggrandizing reference that annoyed Jacob greatly. The Earl then bid Britain farewell and gave his blessings to the Queen and the 11th Hussars before passing away.

==Legacy==
The Earl of Cardigan came to be remembered as a prime example of the often arrogant and pompous British aristocracy during the first half of the 19th century, using his wealth and privilege to maintain a prominent position in politics and the military. His career in the army likewise exemplified the aristocratic officers who frequently showed little to no regard for the lives of their subordinates. The {{Wiki|cardigan}} sweater takes its name from the waistcoat worn by the Earl and his fellow officers during the Crimean War.

== Trivia ==
* Historically, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan died in Deene Park, Northamptonshire.

== Reference ==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
{{ACS}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cardigan, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of}}
[[Category:1797 births]]
[[Category:1868 deaths]]
[[Category:Individuals]]
[[Category:Englishmen]]
[[Category:British Army]]
[[Category:Templars]]
[[Category:British Templars]]
[[Category:Articles needing images]]