United States

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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.

History

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 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.

American Revolutionary War

"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.

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.

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.

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.

American Civil War

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.

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.

Rise of the American industry

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.

Later on, this Apple found its way into the hands of another titan of the American industry, Henry Ford. 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.

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, which remained a relatively anonymous corporation until the last decades of the 20th century.

War for the presidency

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. 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.

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.

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. 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, with the Templar sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald taking the fall for the assassination.

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, unaware that Harvey was a Templar double agent. After Kennedy's death, the Vice President and secret Templar Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the office.

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.

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.

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.

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, the Templars were successful in placing George W. Bush in the Presidential office. By 2010, the Templars still held influence over the Presidency.

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, taking Desmond to Rome, Italy, to use him as an Animus test subject and track down Pieces of Eden.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Alternate timeline

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.

Gallery

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

Appearances

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• Assassin's Creed II (first mentioned)
• Assassin's Creed: The Fall (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations
• Assassin's Creed III
  • Benedict Arnold
  • The Tyranny of King Washington
• Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates
• Assassin's Creed: Pirates (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Memories
• Assassin's Creed: Rogue
• Assassin's Creed: Reflections
• Assassin's Creed: Rebellion (mentioned in Database entry only)
• 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: The Official Movie Novelization
• Echoes of History (mentioned only)
• 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 (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR
• Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Visionaries (non-canonical appearance)