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| | *http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/assassin-creed-everything-need-know/ |
| {{Character Infobox
| | *http://www.gamesradar.com/ive-seen-the-first-15-minutes-of-the-assassins-creed-movie-and-its-exactly-what-i-wanted/ |
| |name = Samuel Adams
| | *http://blog.ubi.com/assassins-creed-movie-impressions-from-the-set-outside-almeria-spain/ |
| |image = ACIII-Samuel Adams V.png
| | *http://www.gamesradar.com/how-a-visit-to-the-set-of-assassins-creed-proved-this-is-no-ordinary-video-game-movie/ |
| |birth = 27 September 1722<br>[[Boston]], {{Wiki|Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts Bay}}
| | *https://council.assassinscreed.com/#!/article/costume-design-and-assassins-attire-35791 |
| |death = 2 October 1803 (aged 81)<br>{{Wiki|Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge}}, [[Massachusetts]], [[United States|U.S.]]
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| |faction = [[Freemasons]]<br>[[Assassins]]<br>[[Sons of Liberty]]
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| |appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''
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| |voice = [[Mark Lindsay Chapman]] (''Assassin's Creed III'')<br>[[Julian Casey]] (''The Tyranny of King Washington'')}}
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| '''Samuel Adams''' (1722 – 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a member of the [[Patriots|Patriot]] group the [[Sons of Liberty]] before the [[American Revolution]]. He was also an ally of the [[Colonial Assassins]], particularly [[Ratonhnhaké:ton|Connor]] during the early years of his life with the Order.
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| ==Biography== | | ==Parisian locations== |
| ===Early life===
| | *[[Palais de Justice]] |
| Adams was the son of the merchant Samuel Adams, Sr., and was born in Boston, [[Massachusetts]]. Adams, Jr. graduated from {{Wiki|Harvard University}} in 1740, but was unable to go into business for himself and took a job in the family {{Wiki|malthouse}}.<ref name="Database">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' - [[Database]]</ref>
| | *[[Les Invalides]] |
| | *[[Hôtel-Dieu]] |
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| Following the [[French and Indian War]], Adams was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1765, arguing for the rights of the colonists over issues of taxation by the British Parliament. He disliked some of the more violent tactics of the Patriots, though he expressed approval of a mob that forced Boston's stamp collector to resign during protests against the {{Wiki|Stamp Act|stamp tax}}.<ref name="Database"/>
| | ==Project Legacy== |
| | These require wikilinks, or could do with articles of their own: |
| | *[[The Louvre]] ([[Divine Science: Chapter 1 - Maria Amiel]]) |
| | *{{Wiki|Besançon}} (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Perenelle Flamel}} (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Holy Innocents' Cemetery}} (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Troyes Cathedral}} (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Coroebus of Elis}} ([[Divine Science: Chapter 2 - Kyros of Zarax]]) |
| | *{{Wiki|Pherecydes of Syros}} (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Theano (philosopher)|Theano}} (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Třeboň}} ([[Divine Science: Chapter 3 - Elizabeth Jane Weston]]) |
| | *{{Wiki|William of Rosenberg|Count Rožmberk}} (") |
| | *''Jane Cooper'' (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Hněvín Castle}} (") |
| | *[[Palace of Westminster]] ([[Contracts (Project Legacy)]]) |
| | *[[Wittenberg]] (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Moscow Kremlin|Kremlin}} (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Strigolniki}} (") |
| | *[[Georg von Frundsberg]] (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Landsknecht|Landsknechte}} (") |
| | *{{Wiki|Saamoothiri}} (") |
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| Adams married twice. During his second wedding to Elizabeth Wells, he was given a [[slavery|slave]], [[Surry]], as a present, which horrified him. He accepted her on condition that she be freed, and Surry stayed as a servant at the Adams household for nearly fifty years.<ref name="Database"/>
| | ==Other things to do== |
| | *Bocce |
| | *Checkers |
| | *Morris |
| | *Fanorona |
| | *{{Wiki|Ivan the Terrible}}? |
| | *{{Wiki|John Gay}} and ''{{Wiki|The Beggar's Opera}}''? |
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| ===Boston Massacre===
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| {{Quote|Over here! You're Achilles' boy. Connor, was it? I saw what happened at the Town House. A fine mess, that.|Samuel Adams to Connor after the massacre.|Assassin's Creed III}} | | {{Quote|Hey, did you ever think about that word? "Smuggler?" Rather funny, isn't it?|A smuggler working for [[Upton Travers]], 1715.|Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag}} |
| [[File:ACIII-MostWanted 1.png|thumb|250px|Samuel introducing himself to Connor]]
| | '''Smuggling''' is the illegal transportation of goods. |
| In 1770, the Assassin [[Mentor]] [[Achilles Davenport]] asked Adams to help his apprentice Connor after he had been framed for causing the [[Boston Massacre]]. Samuel taught Connor how to reduce his [[Social Stealth|notoriety]], waving away the boy's worries by explaining propaganda, and also introduced him to the [[Freemasons]]' [[tunnels]] beneath the city, before chartering Connor a ship back to the [[Davenport Homestead]]. He also introduced the boy to the idea of a handshake.<ref name="AC3">''Assassin's Creed III''</ref> After the massacre, Adams succeeded in campaigning for the removal of the [[British Army|Regulars]] as the city's [[guards]].<ref name="Database"/>
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| ===Boston Tea Party=== | | ==Far East== |
| {{Quote|First, we make our way to Nathaniel Bradlee's house to fetch the rest of our little group. Then it's on to Griffin's Wharf, where we board the ships and dump the tea. Simple as that.|Samuel Adams explaining his plan to Connor.|Assassin's Creed III}}
| | For the inevitable Shao Jun or Japanese ACs. |
| [[File:ACIII-Teaparty 8.png|thumb|250px|left|Samuel celebrating the conclusion of the Tea Party]]
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| Three years later, Connor returned to Boston to request Adams's aid in finding [[William Johnson]], a [[Templars|Templar]] who sought to purchase the land his people lived on. At [[William Molineux]] and [[Stephane Chapheau]]'s tavern, Adams suggested the revenue Johnson was generating from smuggled tea was financing the purchase. While Connor followed his advice to destroy the tea, Adams went to a debate at the [[Old South Meeting House]].<ref name="AC3"/>
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| Upon declaring "''This meeting can do no further to save the country!''", Adams left the meeting and found Connor, Molineux and Chapheau outside. He explained his plan to destroy the latest tea shipment. Together with [[Paul Revere]], they staged the [[Boston Tea Party]], in which they dumped the cargo of tea crates into the water, protesting against the [[Tea Act]] while depriving Johnson of his funds.<ref name="AC3"/>
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| | The '''Far East''' referred to the countries located in east [[Asia]]. |
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| ===Igniting the Revolution===
| | The [[Chinese Assassins|Chinese]] and [[Mongolian Assassins|Mongolian]] branches of the [[Assassins]] were active in the region, removing tyrants like [[Qin Shi Huang]] and [[Genghis Khan]]. Despite Genghis' assassination at the hands of [[Qulan Gal]], and the aid of [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], the [[Mentor]] of the [[Levantine Assassins]], they were unable to stop the spread of the [[Mongol Empire]] and the conquering of [[China]]. |
| {{Quote|Connor, allow me to introduce you to our newly appointed Commander-in-Chief, George Washington.|Samuel Adams introducing Connor to George Washington.|Assassin's Creed III}}
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| [[File:ACIII-Midnightride 14.png|thumb|250px|Connor and Revere warning Adams and Hancock to leave]] | |
| Adams became infamous enough that he had to leave Boston for the town of [[Lexington]] in 1775.<ref name="Database"/> The British major [[Jonathan Pitcairn]] was ordered to arrest him and to seize Patriot weapons supplies near Boston: Connor became involved as Pitcairn was a Templar. He and Revere rode to warn citizens of Pitcairn's advance and eventually met Adams and [[John Hancock]] in Lexington. Connor informed them of his belief that Pitcairn intended to kill them, and they left before the [[Battles of Lexington and Concord|assault on the town]].<ref name="AC3"/> When the {{Wiki|Siege of Boston}} commenced, governor {{Wiki|Thomas Gage}} offered to pardon any rebels who would surrender - except Adams and Hancock.<ref name="Database"/>
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| Two months later, both Adams and Connor attended the induction of [[George Washington]] as Commander-in-Chief of the [[Continental Army]] in [[Philadelphia]]. While there, Connor nearly caused a scene with [[Charles Lee]], who was passed up for the Commander-in-Chief position, before Adams restrained him and distracted the Assassin by formally introducing him to Washington. As Washington excused himself to attend to Lee, Connor asked Adams if he had news of Pitcairn. Adams replied that Pitcairn had barricaded himself in Boston with his army, and passed Connor a letter to give to [[Israel Putnam]] to secure his aid. Though Connor also wanted to assassinate Lee, Adams said they'd have to wait for another opportunity. After finding and assassinating Pitcairn, Connor learned he had only wanted to arrest and negotiate with Adams and Hancock.<ref name="AC3"/>
| | The [[Italian Assassins]], including [[Marco Polo]], travelled through the Far East and to the court of [[Kublai Khan]], where they recovered [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex]]. |
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| [[File:ACIII-Publicexecution 14.png|thumb|250px|left|Samuel, Connor, John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin during the signing of Declaration of Independence]] | | By 1524, the Chinese Assassins had been wiped out by the Emperor [[Jiajing]]. After seeking the aid of [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], the former Mentor of the Italian Assassins, [[Shao Jun]] journey back to her country to rebuild the Order. By the 21st century, the Assassins had a cell located in [[Osaka]], [[Japan]]. |
| Adams signed the [[Declaration of Independence]] the following year with Hancock and [[Benjamin Franklin]]. Adams also thanked Connor, who was attending, for preventing [[Thomas Hickey]]'s assassination attempt on Washington.<ref name="AC3"/>
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| ==Alternate timeline== | | ==Religion== |
| In an alternate timeline where [[George Washington]] crowned himself king of the [[United States]] with the [[Apple of Eden 3|Apple of Eden]], Adams led the rebellion in Boston. The rebellion was faltering, and Adams intended to leave to rendezvous with [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s rebels in [[New York City]].<ref name="Betrayal">''[[The Tyranny of King Washington: The Betrayal]]''</ref>
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| | '''Religion''' is something the leaders of the [[Templars]] and [[Assassins]] do not practice due to their knowledge of the [[First Civilization]]. The former often moved into religious positions of power to control people, while the latter protected the rights of people to believe what they wanted. |
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| Adams's [[Kanien'kehá:ka]] ally [[Kanen'tó:kon]] introduced him to his friend Ratonhnhaké:ton, whose actions against King Washington earned him the moniker of the "man with the wolf hood". Ratonhnhaké:ton sought the city's governor, [[Benjamin Franklin]], which Adams agreed to as it would distract the guards from the rebels as they freed some of their men. After freeing Franklin from the Apple's control, Ratonhnhaké:ton brought him to Adams's hideout, much to his anger: Adams was bitter over how Franklin oversaw the execution of his cousin {{Wiki|John Adams|John}}, and the burning of the [[Old North Church]], but Ratonhnhaké:ton convinced Adams to spare Franklin due to the information he would provide.<ref name="Betrayal"/>
| | The [[Aztecs]]' worship of {{Wiki|Tezcatlipoca}} involved human sacrifices, greatly disgusting the [[Spanish Army|troops]] under [[Hernán Cortés]]. |
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| [[File:Pieces_in_Motion_10.png|thumb|250px|Putnam killing Adams]] | | The [[Hermeticists]] believed man, the gods and the world were all equal, and were driven underground as their beliefs undermined the Church. |
| While Franklin and Ratonhnhaké:ton worked to construct a key to breach [[New York Pyramid|Washington's fortress]], a still bitter Adams dismissed it as a fool's errand. He left the city with Kanen'tó:kon, after the latter had learned the captain stationed at [[Southgate Fort]] was sympathetic to the rebels. However, this turned out to be a rumor started by [[Israel Putnam]] to trap Adams's men. After the slaughter of his troops, Putnam pistolwhipped Adams to death. After discovering this, Franklin and Ratonhnhaké:ton departed the city by sea.<ref name="Betrayal"/>
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| ==Personality and characteristics==
| | The [[Freemasons]] were a Brotherhood founded after the Renaissance which allowed any man, regardless of what god he believed in, to join. |
| [[File:ACIII-Conflictlooms 2.png|thumb|left|250px|Adams restraining Connor from killing Charles Lee]] | |
| Like Achilles, Adams was a mentor to Connor who taught him to compromise politically, having been an idealistic youth as well. He was a shrewd man who understand the power of propaganda in rallying his cause, particularly in spreading reports that the Loyalists fired first at Lexington to generate sympathy for the Patriots. Connor was uncomfortable with lying to attract followers or bribing [[town criers]] or printer shops to draw attention away from himself, but Adams believed an imperfect world meant imperfect solutions.<ref name="AC3"/>
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| While Adams was against slavery, he did not force the issue as he did not want to cause division in the colonies.<ref name="Database"/> He opined that once the colonists were free of British tyranny, they could turn their attention to the slaves. Connor disliked the idea of people becoming equal in turns, but Adams warned against trying to solve all of society's problems simultaneously.<ref name="AC3"/>
| | During the [[French Revolution]], the revolutionary government tried to replace Christianity with the worship of the Supreme Being, an anthromorphisation of reason. [http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-GB/news/news_detail.aspx?c=tcm:154-177119-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32] |
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| ==Trivia==
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| *[[Shaun Hastings]] quipped that despite his role in the Revolution, the {{Wiki|Samuel Adams (beer)|Samuel Adams brand}} of beer, named in honor of Adams' job as a maltser, may be the only reason most Americans have even heard of him.<ref name="Database"/>
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| ==References==
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| *[[Economic system]] revamp (contrast 15th banking with 18th century trading)
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| *Ships (to complement [[guards]])
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| *Swimming (to complement [[freerunning]])
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| *Bribery (merge [[Heralds]] and [[Town criers]]?)
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| *Smuggling?
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| ==Calculations==
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| The [[First Civilization]]'s mathematical studies made them proficient in the studies of alternate timelines.
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| *The [[Apple of Eden 3|Apple of Eden]] showed [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] that if his mother [[Kaniehtí:io]] had never died, then he would not have been around to confiscate it from [[George Washington]] and prevent him from being corrupted by its power.
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| *[[Juno]] showed [[Desmond Miles]] what would happen if [[Lucy Stillman]] had lived: [[Abstergo Industries|Abstergo]] would have arrived to claim [[Ezio's Apple of Eden]], and then failed to prevent the cataclysm after placing it in the [[Eye-Abstergo]] satellite.
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| *She later showed Desmond that if he did not release her from the [[Grand Temple]], then the cataclysm would have destroyed humanity, and he would have led the survivors in a restart of civilization. Long after his death, history would have repeated itself, as Desmond would have been worshipped as a god, and his teachings used to justify mass murder.
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| ==Moral ambiguity==
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| {{Quote|What follows are the three great ironies of the Assassin Order: (1) Here we seek to promote peace, but murder is our means. (2) Here we seek to open the minds of men, but require obedience to a master and set of rules. (3) Here we seek to reveal the danger of blind faith, yet we are practitioners ourselves.|[[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]]'s [[Codex]]|Assassin's Creed II}}
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| Despite their relative benevolence to the majority of Templar activities, many Assassins expressed discomfort with their Order. When [[Desmond Miles]] was rescued by the Assassins, he assumed they were the "good guys", but [[Shaun Hastings]] advised him to "not get carried away", reminding him their function was to kill people. [[Rebecca Crane]] acknowledged "it's not ideal. And taking a life is never easy. But sometimes there's no other way. Sometimes, Desmond, people have to die for things to change."<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref> Desmond's ancestor [[Ratonhnhaké:ton|Connor]] tried to avoid killing [[William Johnson]], and when he had to, he told his Mentor [[Achilles Davenport|Achilles]] that "I thought it might bring clarity. Or instill a sense of accomplishment. But all I feel is regret." Achilles comforted him, explaining to "hold fast to that. Such sacrifices must never come lightly."<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
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| Both Desmond and [[Lucy Stillman]] fell out with their leader [[William Miles]]: his cold demeanour and the harsh training he put them through since childhood led Desmond to regard his father as a "[prison] warden" rather than a father.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref> Lucy defected to the Templars after being sent to infiltrate them, telling [[Clay Kaczmarek]] that William was "using" them and claimed "he doesn't think about the lives he's hurting. We aren't people to him."<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' - ''[[The Lost Archive]]''</ref>
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| [[Nikolai Orelov]] served the Order to please his father, with whom he had a negative relationship. When he left, he felt "I began as a crusader for change and now I am no better than a common grave-robber."<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref> When the Assassins in the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] began holding his family hostage to make him give up his secrets, he opined to his son [[Innokenti Orelov|Innokenti]] "These are not honourable men, Kenya. They are killers. They live by old laws which apply only to them and then call themselves heroes." However, Orelov was also brutal towards his son when training him to fight the Assassins. Viewing these events via his [[genetic memory]], Orelov's great-grandson [[Daniel Cross]] deemed the Assassins "a family of wolves, opportunistic, savage. They'll turn on each other at a moment's notice: they're anarchists. And anarchy can never lead to a unified world."<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: The Chain]]''</ref>
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| Connor expressed disdain for the Assassins' secrecy, an opinion shared centuries earlier by some Assassins under Altaïr's leadership, who disagreed with him taking the Order back underground. Altaïr wrote "They grow angry, insisting it is a mistake to shroud ourselves. They say it slows our work. But they do not understand the risks. To expose ourselves now would be too dangerous. I fear we would be branded madmen and attacked."<ref name="AC2"/>
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| The Assassins also allied with dubious figures such as members of the [[House of Medici]] or [[Vladimir Lenin]], or would spare the likes of [[Tomas de Torquemada]], simply because they were not Templars. [[Vali cel Tradat]] left the Assassins before the Templars because they did not try to stop the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s conquest of his native [[Wallachia]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>
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| ==Connor's routes== | |
| ;[[Florida|Saint Augustine]]
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| *[[Henderson in Distress]]
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| *[[Paving the Way]]
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| *[[Dread of Night]]
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| ;[[Canada|Louisbourg]]
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| *[[Troubled Waters]]
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| *[[Raiding the Prospector]]
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| *[[One of a Kind]]
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| ;[[The Bahamas]]
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| *[[Blistering Dawn]]
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| *[[A Call for Help]]
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| *[[Search for the Somerset]]
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| *[[The Ghost War, Act 1]]
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| *[[The Ghost War, Act 2]]
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| ;[[Virgin Islands]]
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| *[[The Sea Wolves]]
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| *[[A Midnight Engagement]]
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| *[[The Giant and the Storm]]
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