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The '''United States of America''', or simply the '''United States''', is a country in central [[North America]].
*{{wiki|United States Senate}}
*{{wiki|United States House of Representatives}}
|military= [[United States Armed Forces]]<br>
[[Continental Army]] {{c|disbanded}}
|ruling_house=
|affiliation= [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]]
*[[American Brotherhood of Assassins|American Brotherhood]]<br>
[[Templars|Templar Order]]
*[[American Rite of the Templar Order|American Rite]]
|nation=
|languages= {{wiki|English language|English}} {{c|''de facto'' national}}<br>{{wiki|Spanish language|Spanish}}<br>{{wiki|Chinese language|Chinese}}
*{{wiki|Taishanese|Toisanese}}
*{{wiki|Cantonese}}
*{{wiki|Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin}}
{{wiki|Tagalog language|Tagalog}}<br>{{wiki|Vietnamese language|Vietnamese}}<br>{{wiki|Mohawk language|Kanien'kéha}}<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref><br>{{wiki|Languages of the United States|(others)}}
|religion=[[Christianity]]<br>[[Judaism]]<br>[[Islam]]<br>[[Hinduism]]<br>{{wiki|Sikhism}}<br>[[Buddhism]]
|demonym= {{wiki|Americans|American}}
|major_cities= [[Boston]]<br>[[Chicago]]<br>[[Los Angeles]]<br>[[New Orleans]]<br>[[New York City|New York]]<br>[[Philadelphia, United States|Philadelphia]]<br>[[San Francisco]]<br>{{wiki|Seattle}}
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|currency= {{wiki|United States dollar}}
|founder(s)= [[Founding Fathers]]
|date_founded= 4 July 1776 {{c|[[Declaration of Independence]]}}<br>3 September 1783 {{c|[[American Revolutionary War|Treaty of Paris]]}}<br>21 June 1788 {{c|{{wiki|Constitution of the United States|Constitution}}}}
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The '''United States of America''', or simply the '''United States''', is a sovereign state in central [[North America]] and currently the foremost military and hegemonic power in the [[Earth|world]].


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 originated from the secession of '''Thirteen Colonies''' of British North America in protest against the [[United Kingdom]]. With their victory in the [[American Revolution]], the colonies were able to firmly establish themselves as a new federal republic known as the United States of America.
 
As the United States became a global superpower, its government and military has been the means of enforcing [[Abstergo Industries]]'s will. On its behalf, it invaded [[Iran]], [[Guatemala]], and [[Chile]], and backed the dissolution of the [[Russia]]n Parliament.<ref name="Rifts"/>


==History==
==History==
===Early history and the French and Indian War===
===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.
The "Thirteen Colonies" were the colonial possessions of the Kingdom of [[United Kingdom|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.
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]].<ref name="ACRg">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>


===American Revolutionary War===
===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}}
{{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 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.
[[File:Declaration of Independence.jpg|thumb|250px|left|The signing of the Declaration of Independence]]
During the 18th century, the Thirteen Colonies 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.<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
 
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.<ref name="AC3"/>
 
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"/>
 
===American Civil War===
Between 1861 and 1865, the nation fell into [[American Civil War|civil war]] when eleven southern states seceded as the [[Confederate States]] over the issue of [[slavery]] and states' autonomy. The remaining states, collectively known as the Union, were led by President [[Abraham Lincoln]] to a victorious reunification of the country, but he was assassinated by Templar-affiliate [[John Wilkes Booth]] at the end of the war.<ref name="Glyphs">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Glyphs]]</ref>


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. 
During the war, both the Assassins and Templars operated in [[New York City]], where they discovered that a prong of the [[Trident of Eden]] was in possession of the [[Aztec Club of 1847]]. In 1863, amidst the city's [[New York City draft riots|draft riots]], the Assassin [[Varius]] and the Templar [[Cudgel Cormac]] both attempted to recover the prong. Varius ultimately succeeded with the help of [[Eliza]], a former servant employed by [[William M. Tweed]], who was later recruited into the Brotherhood and delivered the prong to [[Ulysses S. Grant]], allowing him to lead the Union Army to victory against the Confederacy.<ref name="ACLD">''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants]]''</ref>


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>
===Rise of the American industry===
[[File:Ford999.jpg|thumb|250px|Henry Ford standing by the Ford 999 racing car]]
By the end of the 19th century, the United States had emerged as a leading center of industrial and technological innovation. No man better exemplified this status than [[Thomas Edison]], a prolific inventor and businessman. Secretly, Edison was a Templar who 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]], the Templars used whatever means they could in order to take it from his hands and turn it against him.<ref name="Glyphs"/>


===The rise of American industry===
Later on, this Apple found its way into the hands of another titan of the American industry, [[Henry Ford]].<ref name="Glyphs"/> 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 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>
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 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.


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>
===War for the presidency===
[[File:AC2 - Frankin Delano Roosevelt strategic meeting.jpg|thumb|235px|left|Franklin D. Roosevelt at a strategic meeting, 1944]]
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 President and began to be influenced by the Templars, who granted him an [[Apple of Eden 3|Apple of Eden]]—the same one that George Washington had held nearly two centuries earlier.<ref name="Glyphs"/> Following this, Roosevelt, alongside other world leaders such as [[Winston Churchill]], [[Joseph Stalin]], and [[Adolf Hitler]], was manipulated by the Templars to start [[World War II]] to benefit the Order's goals.<ref name="Rifts"/>


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.
On 8 February 1957, the Assassins [[Boris Pash]] and [[Alekseï Gavrani]] infiltrated the [[Walter Reed Medical Center]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], where Pash visited his old friend, [[John von Neumann]]. After von Neumann's death, Pash acquired his [[Apple of Eden 4|Apple of Eden]].<ref name="Book1">''[[Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone]] – [[Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone Book 1|Book 1]]''</ref>


===War for the Presidency===
In 1961, [[John F. Kennedy]] assumed the office of the American Presidency and did not share 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 Soviet Union, the Templars planned Kennedy's assassination.<ref name="Glyphs"/> On 22 November 1963, while driving through [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], Kennedy was shot by members of the [[Bloodstone Unit]], an extremist Assassin cell led by Boris Pash,<ref name="Book1"/> with the Templar sleeper agent [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] taking the fall for the assassination.<ref name="Glyphs"/>  
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"/>
[[File:ACBs - Greer escaping the assassination.png|thumb|250px|William Greer in Dallas, moments after Kennedy's assassination]]
Kennedy's driver and Secret Service agent, [[William Greer]], who was a member of the Bloodstone Unit, stole Kennedy's Apple of Eden during the resulting confusion, but was intercepted by Alekseï Gavrani, who took the artifact. Gavrani, believing the Bloodstone Unit had become corrupt, later gave the Apple to the Assassin [[William King Harvey]],<ref name="Book1"/> unaware that Harvey was a Templar double agent.<ref name="Book2">''[[Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone ]] – [[Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone Book 2|Book 2]]''</ref> After Kennedy's death, 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"/>
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"/>
[[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.
[[File:GreatPurgeOverview.png|thumb|250px|left|The Templars overseeing the Great Purge]]
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, United States|Philadelphia]], where he had been experimented on during his youth, and was tortured into revealing the locations of the Assassin hideouts he had visited.<ref name="ACTF">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref>


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>
This allowed the Templars to initiate the "[[Great Purge]]", which was a scheme designed to eradicate Assassin hideouts worldwide. With the Mentor dead and the Assassins in disarray,<ref name="ACTF"/> 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>
 
===21st century===
In 2003, the Assassin [[Desmond Miles]] fled from "[[the Farm]]", a remote Assassin compound in [[South Dakota]] he had grown up on, and made his way to New York to start a new life. He lived and worked in the city for nine years, until Abstergo tracked him down and kidnapped him in September 2012,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref> taking Desmond to [[Rome]], [[Italy]], to use him as an [[Animus]] [[Animus Project|test subject]] and track down [[Piece of Eden|Pieces of Eden]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref>
 
[[File:AC3 Modern New York.png|thumb|250px|New York City, 2012]]
Desmond would return to the United States two months later, when he, his father [[William Miles]], and fellow Assassins [[Shaun Hastings]] and [[Rebecca Crane]] arrived at the [[Grand Temple]], an [[Isu]] complex near [[Turin, New York]]. After recovering several [[power sources]] to reactivate the Temple, including one held in a skyscraper in New York, Desmond accessed the [[global aurora borealis device]] and used it to prevent the [[Second Disaster]] and save humanity, at the cost of his life.<ref name="AC3"/>
 
By 2014, the Templars had a [[American Grand Master|Grand Master]] operating in the United States.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[Database: 10. Reconnaissance Memo]]</ref>
 
In 2015, [[Charlotte de la Cruz]] lived and worked as a banker in [[San Diego]], [[California]], prior to her recruitment into the Assassin Brotherhood by [[Xavier Chen]] and [[Galina Voronina]]. Charlotte would later return to the city to rescue Xavier and Charlotte after their mission to free [[Joseph Laurier]] from the Templars' captivity went awry due to Joseph deceiving them, resulting in Xavier's death. After defeating Joseph, the Assassins fled to [[Mexico]] to escape from the Templars.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|Assassin's Creed]] – [[Assassin's Creed Volume 1: Trial by Fire|Volume 1: Trial by Fire]]''</ref>
 
In 2016, [[Callum Lynch]] was arrested and sentenced to death by the State of [[Texas]] for his murder of a pimp. Abstergo faked his execution and brought him to their [[Abstergo Foundation Rehabilitation Center|Rehabilitation Center]] in [[Madrid]], [[Spain]], in order to explore his ancestors' [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]].<ref>[[Assassin's Creed (film)|''Assassin's Creed'' film]]</ref>
 
In 2020, the Assassins [[Layla Hassan]], Rebecca Crane, and Shaun Hastings rented a [[cabin]] near [[Concord]], [[Massachusetts]], while they searched for a solution to a series of global anomalies caused by Desmond's activation of the global aurora borealis device eight years prior.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]''</ref>


==Alternate timeline==
==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>
{{Main|Rebellion against King Washington}}
[[File:One Step At A Time 4.png|thumb|250px|left|King Washington addressing his subjects]]
In an [[Calculations|alternate timeline]] created by an Apple of Eden, George Washington's newly-formed '''Kingdom of the United States''' brutally ruled over the former British colonies in America with the help of his generals: [[Benedict Arnold]], [[Israel Putnam]], and [[Benjamin Franklin]]. Corrupted by the Apple's influence, Washington planned to extend his holdings into Europe, starting with a planned invasion of Britain. However, this reality was ultimately short-lived due to the arrival of Ratonhnhaké:ton, who helped a [[Rebellion against King Washington|rebellion movement]] organized by Samuel Adams and [[Thomas Jefferson]] overthrow Washington in order to secure his Apple and be returned to his original timeline.<ref name="TOKW">''[[Assassin's Creed III]] – [[The Tyranny of King Washington]]''</ref>
 
==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180">
ACP Grand Union Flag.png|The Grand Union flag
AC3 TTKW Decorative Flag.png|The flag of the alternate reality Kingdom of the United States
</gallery>


==Trivia==
==Appearances==
*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.
{{Incomplete list}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''
**''[[Benedict Arnold (DLC)|Benedict Arnold]]''
**''[[The Tyranny of King Washington]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Forsaken]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Pirates]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Memories]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Reflections]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Rebellion]]'' {{Mdat}}
*[[Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|''Assassin's Creed'' (comic)]]
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan]]''
*[[Assassin's Creed (film)|''ASsassin's Creed'' (film)]]
*''[[Assassin's Creed: The Official Movie Novelization]]''
*''[[Echoes of History]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Visionaries]]'' {{c|non-canonical appearance}}


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The United States of America, or simply the United States, is a sovereign state in central North America and currently the foremost military and hegemonic power in the world.

The country originated from the secession of Thirteen Colonies of British North America in protest against the United Kingdom. With their victory in the American Revolution, the colonies were able to firmly establish themselves as a new federal republic known as the United States of America.

As the United States became a global superpower, its government and military has been the means of enforcing Abstergo Industries's will. On its behalf, it invaded Iran, Guatemala, and Chile, and backed the dissolution of the Russian Parliament.[2]

History[edit | edit source]

Early history and the French and Indian War[edit | edit source]

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 French Canada and the Spanish 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.[3]

American Revolutionary War[edit | edit source]

"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 notebook.[src]
The signing of the Declaration of Independence

During the 18th century, the Thirteen Colonies 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.[1]

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.[1]

In 1783, the Continental Army under Washington stood victorious over their British adversaries, and the two nations signed the Treaty of Paris, securing the independent existence of the United States of America.[1]

American Civil War[edit | edit source]

Between 1861 and 1865, the nation fell into civil war when eleven southern states seceded as the Confederate States over the issue of slavery and states' autonomy. The remaining states, collectively known as the Union, were led by President Abraham Lincoln to a victorious reunification of the country, but he was assassinated by Templar-affiliate John Wilkes Booth at the end of the war.[4]

During the war, both the Assassins and Templars operated in New York City, where they discovered that a prong of the Trident of Eden was in possession of the Aztec Club of 1847. In 1863, amidst the city's draft riots, the Assassin Varius and the Templar Cudgel Cormac both attempted to recover the prong. Varius ultimately succeeded with the help of Eliza, a former servant employed by William M. Tweed, who was later recruited into the Brotherhood and delivered the prong to Ulysses S. Grant, allowing him to lead the Union Army to victory against the Confederacy.[5]

Rise of the American industry[edit | edit source]

Henry Ford standing by the Ford 999 racing car

By the end of the 19th century, the United States had emerged as a leading center of industrial and technological innovation. No man better exemplified this status than Thomas Edison, a prolific inventor and businessman. Secretly, Edison was a Templar who 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, the Templars used whatever means they could in order to take it from his hands and turn it against him.[4]

Later on, this Apple found its way into the hands of another titan of the American industry, Henry Ford.[4] Ford, along with another Templar, 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.[2]

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 founded Abstergo Industries as a front for their organization,[6] which remained a relatively anonymous corporation until the last decades of the 20th century.

War for the presidency[edit | edit source]

Franklin D. Roosevelt at a strategic meeting, 1944

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 President and began to be influenced by the Templars, who granted him an Apple of Eden—the same one that George Washington had held nearly two centuries earlier.[4] Following this, Roosevelt, alongside other world leaders such as Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler, was manipulated by the Templars to start World War II to benefit the Order's goals.[2]

On 8 February 1957, the Assassins Boris Pash and Alekseï Gavrani infiltrated the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where Pash visited his old friend, John von Neumann. After von Neumann's death, Pash acquired his Apple of Eden.[7]

In 1961, John F. Kennedy assumed the office of the American Presidency and did not share Abstergo's goals. When Kennedy planned a joint venture to the Moon—where an Apple of Eden was located—with the Soviet Union, the Templars planned Kennedy's assassination.[4] On 22 November 1963, while driving through Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot by members of the Bloodstone Unit, an extremist Assassin cell led by Boris Pash,[7] with the Templar sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald taking the fall for the assassination.[4]

William Greer in Dallas, moments after Kennedy's assassination

Kennedy's driver and Secret Service agent, William Greer, who was a member of the Bloodstone Unit, stole Kennedy's Apple of Eden during the resulting confusion, but was intercepted by Alekseï Gavrani, who took the artifact. Gavrani, believing the Bloodstone Unit had become corrupt, later gave the Apple to the Assassin William King Harvey,[7] unaware that Harvey was a Templar double agent.[8] After Kennedy's death, the Vice President and secret Templar Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the office.[4]

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.[2]

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.[2]

The Templars overseeing the Great Purge

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 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 had been experimented on during his youth, and was tortured into revealing the locations of the Assassin hideouts he had visited.[9]

This allowed the Templars to initiate the "Great Purge", which was a scheme designed to eradicate Assassin hideouts worldwide. With the Mentor dead and the Assassins in disarray,[9] the Templars were successful in placing George W. Bush in the Presidential office.[2] By 2010, the Templars still held influence over the Presidency.[10]

21st century[edit | edit source]

In 2003, the Assassin Desmond Miles fled from "the Farm", a remote Assassin compound in South Dakota he had grown up on, and made his way to New York to start a new life. He lived and worked in the city for nine years, until Abstergo tracked him down and kidnapped him in September 2012,[11] taking Desmond to Rome, Italy, to use him as an Animus test subject and track down Pieces of Eden.[12]

New York City, 2012

Desmond would return to the United States two months later, when he, his father William Miles, and fellow Assassins Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane arrived at the Grand Temple, an Isu complex near Turin, New York. After recovering several power sources to reactivate the Temple, including one held in a skyscraper in New York, Desmond accessed the global aurora borealis device and used it to prevent the Second Disaster and save humanity, at the cost of his life.[1]

By 2014, the Templars had a Grand Master operating in the United States.[13]

In 2015, Charlotte de la Cruz lived and worked as a banker in San Diego, California, prior to her recruitment into the Assassin Brotherhood by Xavier Chen and Galina Voronina. Charlotte would later return to the city to rescue Xavier and Charlotte after their mission to free Joseph Laurier from the Templars' captivity went awry due to Joseph deceiving them, resulting in Xavier's death. After defeating Joseph, the Assassins fled to Mexico to escape from the Templars.[14]

In 2016, Callum Lynch was arrested and sentenced to death by the State of Texas for his murder of a pimp. Abstergo faked his execution and brought him to their Rehabilitation Center in Madrid, Spain, in order to explore his ancestors' genetic memories.[15]

In 2020, the Assassins Layla Hassan, Rebecca Crane, and Shaun Hastings rented a cabin near Concord, Massachusetts, while they searched for a solution to a series of global anomalies caused by Desmond's activation of the global aurora borealis device eight years prior.[16]

Alternate timeline[edit | edit source]

Main article: Rebellion against King Washington
King Washington addressing his subjects

In an alternate timeline created by an Apple of Eden, George Washington's newly-formed Kingdom of the United States brutally ruled over the former British colonies in America with the help of his generals: Benedict Arnold, Israel Putnam, and Benjamin Franklin. Corrupted by the Apple's influence, Washington planned to extend his holdings into Europe, starting with a planned invasion of Britain. However, this reality was ultimately short-lived due to the arrival of Ratonhnhaké:ton, who helped a rebellion movement organized by Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson overthrow Washington in order to secure his Apple and be returned to his original timeline.[17]

Gallery[edit | edit source]

  • The Grand Union flag
    The Grand Union flag
  • The flag of the alternate reality Kingdom of the United States
    The flag of the alternate reality Kingdom of the United States

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Assassin's Creed III
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Rifts
  3. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Assassin's Creed II – Glyphs
  5. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants
  6. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone – Book 1
  8. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone – Book 2
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Assassin's Creed: The Fall
  10. ↑ AbstergoIndustries.com
  11. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations
  12. ↑ Assassin's Creed
  13. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: 10. Reconnaissance Memo
  14. ↑ Assassin's Creed – Volume 1: Trial by Fire
  15. ↑ Assassin's Creed film
  16. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
  17. ↑ Assassin's Creed III – The Tyranny of King Washington

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