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|notable = [[Achilles Davenport]]<br>[[Ratonhnhaké:ton]]<br>[[Robert Faulkner]]<br>[[Stephane Chapheau]]<br> [[Clipper Wilkinson]]<br> [[Jamie Colley]]<br>[[Jacob Zenger]]<br> [[Deborah Carter]]<br>[[Duncan Little]]}} | |notable = [[Achilles Davenport]]<br>[[Ratonhnhaké:ton]]<br>[[Robert Faulkner]]<br>[[Stephane Chapheau]]<br> [[Clipper Wilkinson]]<br> [[Jamie Colley]]<br>[[Jacob Zenger]]<br> [[Deborah Carter]]<br>[[Duncan Little]]}} | ||
The ''' | The '''Colonial Assassins''' were the Brotherhood of [[Assassins]] located in the [[Thirteen Colonies|British colonies]] of [[North America]], which became the [[United States]]. They were separate from the [[French Colonial Assassins|French]] and [[Spanish Colonial Assassins]], basing themselves at the [[Davenport Homestead]] in [[Massachusetts]]. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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The Colonial Assassins were the Brotherhood of Assassins located in the British colonies of North America, which became the United States. They were separate from the French and Spanish Colonial Assassins, basing themselves at the Davenport Homestead in Massachusetts.
History
Formation
Not much is known about how or when the Brotherhood was formed. Sometime between 1501 and 1503, the Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze sent a group of Assassins to find a map to the New World, and they decided that it would be best to go to the colonies before the Templars overtook them.[1] The British American Brotherhood was founded by John de la Tour after his arrival to the colonies.[2]
Colonial America
After having been recruited in the 1730s, Achilles Davenport became the Mentor of the Colonial Assassins in 1746. Blessed with a talent for recruitment and organization, Achilles also strengthened the Brotherhood's ties with the Iroquois, and the Kanien'kehá:ka in particular. Around this time period, the Assassins created a Navy to attack Templar ships and ports: their flagship, the Aquila was launched from France in 1749.[2]
In 1763, the Templars launched an attack on the Assassins in the colonies and the Brotherhood was all but destroyed. All members of the chapter were hunted down and killed, except for Achilles, who was captured and tried by the Templars. However, confident that they had broken his spirit, the Templars set Achilles free on the condition that he abandon the Assassins' cause and live quietly in his manor.[3] Five years later, the Templars destroyed the Aquila, and first mate Robert Faulkner had the ship towed into the Homestead's bay.[2]
Later, the Kanien'kehá:ka Ratonhnhaké:ton convinced Achilles to begin training him, and officially joined the Brotherhood. By 1774, Connor had started recruiting locals and immigrants into the Order, starting with Stephane Chapheau in Boston during the time that William Johnson had his men exorbitantly taxed the people of the city. Both Chapheau and Connor later participated in the Boston Tea Party, where they deprived Templars of certain funding.
By 1780, Connor had recruited five other members to the cause after assisting them within the districts of Boston and New York where they resided. In Boston, Connor recruited Duncan Little and Clipper Wilkinson, after stopping taxmen and forceful military drafters respectively. In New York, Connor recruited Jacob Zenger, Jamie Colley, and Deborah Carter after ending martial law, helping the sick and wounded, and assisting the poor.
With the sudden rebirth of the Colonial Brotherhood, the group quickly worked to undermine the Templars' domination. Connor succeeded in assassinating all the Templar leaders in the United States; killing Johnson for attempting to claim Native American land for the Templars, John Pitcairn for trying to cripple the Patriot cause, Thomas Hickey for his part in striving to murder George Washington, Benjamin Church for stealing Patriot supplies, Nicholas Biddle for raiding the towns and Patriot encampments along the coast, Haytham Kenway for leading them and attempting to spread Templar influence, and Charles Lee for his cruelty and treachery against the newly fledged nation.
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