American Brotherhood of Assassins
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The Colonial Assassins were the Brotherhood of Assassins located in the thirteen colonies of British America.
History
The Colonial Brotherhood was founded by John de la Tour after his arrival to the colonies. 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.[1]
In 1763, the Templars launched an attack on the Assassins in the colonies and the Brotherhood was decimated. 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 and told him that he was allowed to live out his life on the condition that he abandon the Assassins' cause and move into the wilderness.[2]
Later, the Mohawk Ratonhnhaké:ton joined the Brotherhood under the training of Achilles. By 1774, Connor started the reconstruction of the Brotherhood, when he recruited Stephane Chapheau in Boston during the time that William Johnson had his men exorbitantly tax 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.
After the sudden growth in the Colonial Brotherhood, the group quickly worked to destroy Templar dominion. In his efforts, Connor was able to assassinate all of the Templar co-conspirators in the United States. Of this, Connor killed 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, Haytham Kenway for leading them and attempting to spread Templar influence, and Charles Lee for attempting the rebirth of the Templar Order.
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