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Around our flag we stand united,

With one wish and one goal,

A sacred oath we bestow upon it

Proclaiming loyalty for our salvation.

From war abstains only he,

Who a traitor is born,

He who is a true man is not frightened,

But dies a warrior to the cause.

With weapons in our hands a-brandished,

We will defend our fatherland,

Our sacred rights we'll not relinquish,

The foe has no place in our land.

From war abstains only he, Who a traitor is born,

He who is a true man is not frightened, But dies a warrior to the cause.

From war abstains only he,

Who a traitor is born,

He who is a true man is not frightened,

But dies a warrior to the cause.

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Snowboarder vs YouTuber - Susana Aybar faces Alex Deibold's Olympic Training | Hitting the Wall - Duration: 8:56.

Hi, my name is Susana. I'm going to meet Alex.

He won a bronze medal in 2014.

My name's Alex Deibold.

We're here in my hometown of Boulder, Colorado.

I'm going to take Susana

through a day in the life of my training.

(HITTING THE WALL)

Boardercross is a discipline in snowboarding

where you have six men or six women

that race through an obstacle course together.

First one to cross the finish line wins.

- Hi, Alex. - Hi, Susana.

I know you are an Olympic snowboarder,

but I don't see snow here.

You know, to be honest I'm not a very good skateboarder,

so without a lot of snow around these days,

you have to get pretty creative,

so the more you skate,

the more you progress, the faster and faster I can go.

The reason I've been coming every day is

this coming winter, the skills will translate over,

but it's just a great way

to sort of get going in the morning, get my heart rate up.

I have a brother who is also a skater.

Yeah.

And maybe that's why I can surprise you.

I'll see if you can try and keep up.

This is the first step.

- This is easy. - Yeah.

All right, so...

Ready...

Whoo!

You always want to bend your knees.

- That's the thing. - Just like in snowboarding.

You want to keep your weight right in the middle.

I don't want him to feel he lost his day training with me,

and I know for them it's very important

not to lose their rhythm.

I was really impressed she gave it a couple of solid efforts.

It was cool to see her step out of her comfort zone.

Forward...

Look at that - you're a natural.

Oh, thank you.

So, why don't we go to the gym?

Maybe I can be...better.

More on an even playing field?

Yeah.

Ooh, wow.

OK, so this is one of the places

that I come and train.

I'm impressed.

Yeah, it's a really cool space.

I go straight from the skate park right into the gym.

I'm warmed up, my muscles are ready to go.

Well, let's go, let's go. I don't want to lose your time.

Perfect. All right,

we're going to start with some jump rope activities.

So now we're going to go into some dynamic warm-up.

So we're going to start with down dog into spider,

it's a good hip opener.

Mobility is really important in snowboarding

to help prevent injury.

Quad stretch lateral lunge.

Again, stretching, mobility.

Having a really strong, powerful base

allows you to move quickly, generate speed.

Hands above your head, and then stand up... Yeah.

So you have a routine.

Every day you know what you're going to do?

I have a different plan for every Monday.

And it's progressive throughout the summer.

So it's pretty complex and dynamic.

So you have to be there every Monday,

otherwise the next level will be difficult if you

- didn't do the other one. - Exactly.

Last sort of activation.

I like when you do like... "Come on!

"Come on!"

He said, "Every day I do what I have to do.

"No matter if I'm tired, no matter if I am lazy one day,

"I do everything."

- Now that we're warmed up... - Mm-hm.

..some of the meat and potatoes of the workout. You ready?

- How do you call it? - The meat and potatoes.

- Carne y patatas. - Carne y patatas.

- OK, I'm ready. - The main part of the workout.

(POWER CLEANS)

- Like this, no? - Yeah. Exactly.

It's heavy!

A well-rounded athlete in boardercross,

you have to have so much strength and power to react.

We take a lot of high-impact landings.

You stand up and you use all the power in your hips.

Doing Olympic lifting is really dynamic.

It takes a lot of strength, it takes a lot of power,

it takes a lot of balance and coordination,

quad/glute activation.

But also it's really, really strong core.

You want the bar to be right on the meat...

Yeah, there you go.

- OK. - So stand up.

- OK, I did it? - Yeah.

- And now? - Now take a step back.

I'm going to supply you, there you go. There you go...

Now come back up.

There you go! You're a natural.

- It's heavy for me, uh? - It's just four reps.

It was fun to see what kind of workout they do.

I was not expecting this kind of... I mean,

the training that he does,

lower body that we did in the gym.

So you do first weight and then cardio?

- Then cardio. Exactly. - Why this order?

If I went for a three-hour bike ride

and I came in here tired,

I'd be much more likely to get hurt

and I wouldn't get as much out of my performance.

Snowboarders can have a pretty big imbalance

in between their two legs.

So we do a lot of these individual leg exercises

to balance out the strength and make sure it's even.

Oh... We're getting there.

Almost done.

- This is a surfer... - Snowboarder, yeah,

skateboard thing.

OK. I thought it was more like...

Moving on to supine barbell hip extensions.

It's all posterior chain, hamstrings and glutes.

Vamos!

Having strong glute muscles

will actually help protect your knees.

Ah!

The last exercise we're going to do

is some hamstring curls.

We, as snowboarders, try and do extra work

to strengthen our hamstrings

because our quads get very overdeveloped,

and if you have a big imbalance,

that's what puts your knees at risk.

And knee injuries are very common in skiing

and snowboarding.

Core, we've talked about focusing on all day,

it's one of the more important aspects.

We're just going to do pass-offs.

So start in a V...

Come up. Pass the ball to your feet, go down.

Squeezing the ball between your legs

you're using your adductors,

which attach to your hip flexors.

You're using your lats, which connect down to your core.

Shall we have a little competition

to end things off before we head out?

Friendly competition sounds good. OK.

We should have a plank... plank-off, if you will.

Plank-off...

Plank-off - see who can hold a plank longer.

I want to know how much advantage you have.

I don't do these enough, I'll tell you that much.

- I don't believe you. - Yeah...

- Are you ready? - Of course.

Set...

If I see you go down I'm going to tell you,

and if you go too high I'm going to tell you.

- OK. - One, two, three...

- Arms up. - Arms up?

- Open your arms. - OK.

Is it cheating when you put them together?

- Yes, I think so. - Oh, man.

Oh, man.

They always start out really easy...

Yeah.

Then they get harder and harder and harder.

My body is burning everywhere -

but, you know, when you really want to do it,

I suppose it's the same as when he's in the competition.

- How do you feel? - I feel tired.

- I don't believe you. - No.

But...I am a competitor, so I want to beat you.

I mean...friendly competition's always good.

Ohhh...

I was almost going to go down...

OK. You win.

Yes! Si!

- You did it on purpose? - No.

I... I, like - "But he went down?"

Uh... I don't know if I'd call that a low point.

She's a fitness...model.

- Nice work. - Yes.

Let's take a quick break, and go get on the bikes

and go out for a little ride here in Boulder.

I don't know if I'm going to hate you.

This is Boulder Canyon.

It's really pretty, there's lots of rock climbing up here.

I'm nervous of what is going to happen now, cycling,

because I have ridden a normal bicycle,

not this kind of bicycle.

Please, this is my last step. I don't want to fall down.

I'm going to do my best.

(MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL RIDING)

What we did today is not normal for me.

All the things that we did, I never did it before.

This is a new experience for me,

to be with such an amazing person as him, as Alex.

Everything is beautiful here.

All the different spots that he lives in

and his day-by-day is like, for me, like a fairy tale.

You see how happy he is today,

how much energy he has.

So he reflects this on me.

So when I'm with him, and then now

when we ride with the bicycle,

I know I'm going to have the same energy again.

I have respect for him.

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"The French and Indian War" - Assassin's Creed: Real History - Duration: 29:25.

Hello everyone, my name is Robius and today I'm happy to bring you the sixteenth episode

in the renewed iteration of Assassin's Creed the Real History.

Following the pattern laid out in the previous weeks, this video will be part of my ongoing

sub-series in which I chronologically explore the time periods chosen as the backdrops for

the various Assassin's Creed titles, reviewing their major historical events, discussing

any gaps in the history left by the games, and introducing to the individuals who actually

existed.

Ergo, today's episode will concentrate on the French and Indian War, the period which

predominantly served as the backdrop for Assassin's Creed Rogue, but which was also briefly visited

in Assassin's Creed 3 and to a marginal extent Assassin's Creed Liberation.

Consequently, please be aware of related story spoilers throughout the entire video.

As a starting point, when considering the years that preceded the Assassin's Creed

games, I'd like to commence this episode by establishing my intended scope for this

topic.

It is important to understand that the French and Indian War was actually a specification

which represented the North American theater of the much larger, and more widespread Seven

Years' War.

Although technically speaking, the official declarations of war and later signing of the

peace treaties have the conflict stretching from 1756 to 1763, we'll actually be starting

this video a few years earlier with the purpose of covering the circumstances leading up to

the hostilities.

Lastly, it's worth mentioning that the name of "The French and Indian War" is predominantly

used by the British and Americans, who named the conflict as such since it noted their

adversaries during that struggle, whereas in most other countries this fighting is traditionally

just grouped in with the rest of the Seven Years' War.

Having said that, let's now explore the circumstances that led to the opening of the

French and Indian War.

Although it was fundamentally the product of culminating tensions between the British

and French North American colonies, a few key events lay the groundwork for the opening

of this larger-scale conflict.

At their core, most of these events were tied into a dispute over the technical ownership

of the Ohio Country.

This debate became more serious following increased attempts by the British in 1747

to broaden their trading network into the Ohio Country, an area to which the French

laid claim.

After these efforts became more brazen, the French responded by launching a six-month

military expedition in 1749 in which their troops expulsed British traders from the region

and sought to solidify their tribal relations.

Despite this aggravation, the British sponsored the efforts of the Ohio Company of Virginia,

who in turn hired the frontiersman Christopher Gist in 1750 to explore the Ohio region and

establish new treaties with local tribes to allow further colonial expansion.

By 1752, the French again responded with another military expedition that began eliminating

illegal trading posts, arresting traders and attacking opposing native tribes.

Technically speaking, although exact dates aren't provided, this was around the point

where Assassin's Creed Rogue officially began, with the fictional, then-Assassin Shay

Cormac operating in the North Atlantic in 1752.

As part of the fabricated plot in Assassin's Creed, under the guise of having the Assassins

hunting down high ranking Templar figures, the game has Shay briefly eavesdrop on a meeting

between these individuals, who included Lawrence Washington, Samuel Smith and James Wardrop.

Interestingly enough, although they evidently weren't members of the secret Templar order,

these three men were in fact involved as either founding members, or as shareholders within

the Ohio Company of Virginia.

Nonetheless, as part of the invented narrative, Shay proceeded to assassinate the tuberculosis-ridden

Lawrence Washington and then began his hunt for the other two Templars in hopes of recovering

the precursor artifacts they had stolen from the Assassins.

Historically, during this period of down-time in the game, the aforementioned military conflict

was intensified further as the French launched yet another expedition into the Ohio Valley

in 1753.

Looking to make a more definitive claim to the region, they began constructing forts

at various key locations while ousting opposing tribes from the area.

This led certain Iroquois representative to seek aid from their British allies, which

they did by visiting William Johnson, the former Superintendent for Indian Affairs.

Having resigned from his role, Johnson was unable to pressure the Governor of New York

into supporting their allies by pushing back against the French, which ultimately led the

Iroquois Confederacy to declare their relationship with the British over.

Soon after this debacle, the Governor of Virginia stepped in to make a show of force against

the French.

To that effect, in late 1753 he dispatched a small expedition under the command of the

young George Washington.

This expedition set off with the goal of meeting the French to demand they leave the region.

The French commander flatly refused these demands, expressing that the area belonged

to them as the French had been its original explorers.

Washington returned to the governor in early 1754 with this message, learning upon his

arrival that plans had already been made to build a British fort in the area to counter

the expected French advance.

Unfortunately for the British, additional French troops were dispatched and marched

to the construction site of this new fort, permitting the British to leave while paying

them for their equipment, which the French then used to complete Fort Duquesne for themselves.

Within Assassin's Creed 3's lore, this would be the approximate period in which Haytham

Kenway killed one of the British Assassin mentors and then began his journey to the

13 colonies in hopes of consolidating its Templar presence.

Contextually, this was also around the point where Shay finally tracked down Samuel Smith

and killed him, thus recovering the Precursor box in the name of the Assassins.

However, historically speaking, this development with the French taking the fort coincided

with the Virginian governor dispatching Washington to support what he thought was the continued

construction of a British fort.

On his way, Washington met the retreating British forces and consequently devised a

plan to oust the French.

Grouping together with native allies, Washington mustered his troops and ambushed a French

scouting party in May of 1754, killing their commander and routing their forces in the

Battle of Jumonville Glen.

This very confrontation is commonly recognized as the unofficial start of the French and

Indian War.

Thereafter, Washington's forces retreated and built Fort Necessity in an attempt to

solidify their regional control.

However, within around a month the French struck back, forcing Washington to surrender.

Overall, these two battles signalled the opening of larger-scale hostilities within the colonies.

Although the majority of the large-scale battles to come would occur in the more northern colonies,

there were intermittent conflicts in the southern colonies as well, with certain individuals

being recognized for their participation in this less-active theater.

One of these men was Gilbert-Antoine de Saint-Maxent, who played a role in defending French Louisiana

from joint-British and Native attacks.

Following these confrontations, delegates from seven of the thirteen colonies gathered

together in what came to be known as the Albany Congress, which occurred from mid-June to

mid-July of 1754.

This event was represented in Assassin's Creed Rogue, as Shay continued his hunt for

the Templar James Wardrop.

While present at the gathering, Shay overheard a speech delivered by Benjamin Franklin, who

was making a strong effort to convince the delegates to accept his Plan of Union.

Historically, this was Franklin's unsuccessful attempted push, with the slogan "Join, or

Die", to unite the colonies under the authority of a monarchy-approved executive who could

manage their military defense and legislations.

Overall, this plan did not work out, as the Congress was primarily concerned with attempting

to negotiate better treaties with their potential indigenous allies.

Nonetheless, following the congress, the game had Shay conclude his fictional hunt for Wardrop,

finally killing the Templar and recovering the Voynich Manuscript, which was the remaining

precursor artifact the Assassins had lost.

This was immediately followed up with another invented interaction in which Benjamin Franklin

worked with the Assassins to decode the message of the precursor artifacts, eventually discovering

Lisbon to be the location of a first civilization temple for which they had been searching.

This would later lead Shay to begin his voyage to Portugal in hopes of reaching the site.

Within the real history, in response to the earlier battles, the British government resolved

to organize an army expeditionary force, under the command of Major General Edward Braddock,

with the purpose of putting an end to the French aggression.

Having learned of these plans, the French mustered their own army, commanded by the

Baron Dieskau which they sent off to the colonies, despite British attempts to intercept their

vessels.

In Assassin's Creed 3's storylines, this was also around the general timeframe in which

Haytham Kenway reached Boston and was greeted by his ally Charles Lee, an officer in the

British Army serving in the colonies at that time.

Working in unison with Charles, Haytham would then proceed to gather his other local Templar

allies, among which were the Marine Lieutenant John Pitcairn, the soldier Thomas Hickey,

and the physician Benjamin Church.

Although some records are contradictory on when Pitcairn and Hickey reached the colonies,

certain sources claim that all of these individuals would have historically been present in the

general area at that time.

What followed was a fictional series of missions in which the Templars consolidated their regional

control and began their hunt for a first civilization storehouse.

Anyways, getting back to the real history, following Braddock's arrival in the colonies,

the British prepared to launch their first large-scale response to the prior French advances.

Braddock's expedition against Fort Duquesne was to be one of four separate assaults in

which the British sought to capture four different French forts.

Leading a mixed force of British regulars and colonial militia, supported by George

Washington, this army began its march in June of 1755.

By July 8th they were near their target and were approached by French and Native envoys

who offered to negotiate for their peaceful withdrawal from the Fort.

Braddock refused these terms, as was briefly mentioned in Assassin's Creed 3.

On the following day, despite Washington's warnings to Braddock that his advance was

vulnerable due to the differences between the European warfare to which he was accustomed

and the more guerilla-based approach used by native and colonial forces, the General

still pushed forward.

As they crossed the river, the British forces suddenly ran into the French and their native

allies, who were on their way to, but had not yet, set up their ambush.

What followed is remembered as the Battle of the Monongahela, which was paralleled in

Assassin's Creed 3.

Historically, within the opening volleys of the confrontation, the French officer Daniel

Liénard de Beaujeu was killed, however this didn't prevent the Franco-Native coalition

from quickly gaining the upper hand and defeating the British expedition in a battle that ultimately

led to the later death of Braddock from his injuries.

Although much of this conflict was covered in AC3, a few main differences depicted were

the fact that the entire ambush was organized by Haytham and his native allies, along with

the idea that Charles Lee was the one to kill Beaujeu.

In reality, aside from Braddock's failure, the second British expedition was brought

to a halt due to disorganization, the third ended without any change in territorial gains

following the Battle of Lake George, while the fourth concluded with the successful acquisition

of Fort Beauséjour, thus isolating the fortress of Louisbourg from any further French ground

support.

As part of a long-term campaign effort to continue cutting off Louisbourg from French

allies and trade, the British began the expulsion of the Acadians, a task in which they sought

to forcibly remove and relocate the native Acadian population from their homes.

Many of these individuals would eventually be moved to southern colonies.

Evidently, this effort was met with fierce resistance over the following years.

Anecdotally, although not related to the French and Indian War, this would have been the point

in Rogue where Shay reached Lisbon and the game had him accidentally caused the November

1st, 1755 earthquake that essentially destroyed the city, by disturbing the Piece of Eden

hidden below it.

The assassin would barely escape the disaster, sail back home and accuse his mentor of setting

him up to slaughter innocents.

Ultimately, in this fictional confrontation Shay would try to steal the precursor manuscript

to prevent this event from ever being repeated, however he was caught by the assassins and

when trying to escape, was shot and fell off a cliff.

This would lead to the equally invented plot section in which Shay would be saved by an

unknown figure and brought to New York to recover, from where he would launch his personal

campaign against the local gangs.

Historically, by 1756 the British war effort was disorganized as their new leadership structure,

established after Braddock's death, was incapable of creating an agreed-upon set of

expeditions.

Taking advantage of this disarray, the Governor-General of New France launched an aggressive retaliation,

leading to the destruction of a British fort at the Battle of Fort Bull.

Consequently, both France and Britain sought to install new leadership structures for their

forces within the colonies, with the French reinforcements under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

and the Chevalier de Lévis arriving in May, while the British under Loudoun and Abercrombie

were established in July.

As one of his first acts, Montcalm was victorious at the Battle of Fort Oswego, and thus further

limited the British capability to launch attacks into New France.

It is also worth mentioning that in May of 1756 war was officially declared between Britain

and France, thus signifying the technical start to the Seven Years' War.

Although the conflict had already been raging for nearly two years, some sources record

that this officially declaration pushed even more individuals to enlist, with Paul Revere

being one example, despite not seeing any actual fighting during his brief tenure in

the militia.

This was the timeframe in Rogue where Shay, the fictional protagonist, became more involved

in the Templar movement indirectly, helping them fight off the gangs in New York, while

also defeating certain Assassin allies.

In reality, at this time the British sought to strike a major blow to the French by attacking

Quebec, their capital, however before this plan could be executed, it was instead decided

that the fortress of Louisbourg should be dealt with beforehand.

During this year there were continued naval confrontations between the British and French

in the area, with an example of this being the failed attempt of the commissary general,

Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie to deliver supplementary resources to their now-isolated

fortress of Louisbourg.

Nonetheless, by the time the British were ready to strike, the French naval presence

around Louisbourg had finally increased to a point where success seemed unlikely, leading

them to cancel their invasion.

Notably, among the chaos surrounding this naval warfare, another incredibly important

confrontation was unfolding at Fort William Henry.

Following an extended campaign where Montcalm's troops successfully picked off additional

British forces, destroyed their supplies and left them stranded, the French General began

his approximate week-long siege in August of 1757.

At the time, the fort's outnumbered British garrison was led by Colonel George Monro who

did his best to hold off the French in hopes that reinforcements might arrive, however

he was eventually forced to surrender.

This event, and its subsequent aftermath were also depicted in Assassin's Creed Rogue.

Within the game's narrative, one of Monro's requests for help made it to Shay who sailed

quickly to Fort William Henry in hopes of assisting his ally.

Upon arrival he learned that William Johnson's reinforcements had never arrived, which historically

happened since Johnson's superior refused to dispatch the man and his joint Native-Militia

force because he felt that the fort was already lost.

Nonetheless, Shay reached the outside of the Fort just as the British began their withdrawal,

which was part of the surrender terms, that stipulated they would leave without further

confrontation on the condition that the garrison be allowed to travel unharmed to Fort Edward.

What followed is considered among the most notorious events of the war.

During their evacuation, the British soldiers were suddenly attacked by Montcalm's native

allies, who disregarded the terms of the surrender.

Although sources differ on the number of casualties incurred, and the degree to which the French

military tried to stop the attack, it is generally listed as a massacre with many of the British

being killed or taken captive.

Within the scope of Assassin's Creed Rogue, the suddenness of this inexplicably violent

event is attributed to the fictional native Assassin Kesegowaase, who the game depicted

as organizing the massacre for the purpose of killing Monro, who was a Templar, and retrieving

the precursor manuscript he possessed.

However, Shay's intervention allowed Monro to survive, which paralleled his actual real-world

survival of the attack.

What then followed in the game months later was an entirely fictional battle in which

Kesegowaase and his allies struck at Albany in hopes of assassinating Monro.

Although Shay defeated the assassin, Monro was still killed and the manuscript was lost,

which the game used to explain his death from natural causes on November 3rd, 1757.

Immediately after, Haytham Kenway, the grandmaster of the colonial Templars, officially inducted

Shay into their order.

Historically, with the beginning of 1758 the tide of the French and Indian war started

to shift.

Between the British limiting their capacity to receive supplies from France, a sub-par

harvest and an increase in disease, the forces in New France were incapable of renewing their

offensive and instead settled into a defensive position in hopes of holding their line.

Determined to seize this opportunity and gain access to the St. Lawrence River to launch

future attacks into New France, the British prepared another attempt to take Louisbourg.

Under the command of Major general Jeffrey Amherst, a large British fleet laid siege

to the fortress for nearly two months until it finally capitulated.

Assassin's Creed Rogue featured part of this siege when Shay and his fellow Templars

joined their ally James Cook, the Master of the HMS Pembroke with the intention of providing

their support in his real-world participation within the battle.

It was during this fictionally exaggerated conflict with the French vessels that the

Templars faced off with the equally-invented Assassin Adewale, who was eventually forced

to flee when the full might of the British fleet arrived to lay siege to the fortress.

They would thereafter proceed to later hunt down and kill the Assassin for his interference.

In reality, the second British invasion planned for that year met with disaster when the significantly

larger army led by James Abercrombie was thoroughly defeated by the much-smaller French forces

under the command of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm during the two-day Battle of Fort Carillon.

Although, it is worth mentioning that a detachment of these same British forces did succeed in

capturing and then destroying Fort Frontenac nearly 2 months later.

Following the mixed results of their second army, the final British invasion force reached

Fort Duquesne in September of 1758.

Although the French defenders initially succeeded in holding the invaders back, recognizing

that they were outnumbered and likely could not withstand another attack, they remained

in the fort until November at which point they burned it to the ground and fled the

area.

By the end of 1758, in face of its limited colonial victories, France instead decided

to invest in a failed plan to invade Britain as part of the more wide-spread Seven Years'

War, which ultimately meant a decline in their commitment to the North American theater of

the conflict.

Consequently, in 1759 the British were once again on the offensive.

The Battle of Fort Niagara occurred throughout the month of July and concluded with a British

victory under the leadership of William Johnson, who took command when his superior was killed

in the fighting.

Immediately afterwards, General Amherst's army arrived at Fort Carillon and dwarfed

the small force of French defenders.

Following orders from Montcalm, the French commander stationed at Carillon attempted

to burn the fort down, however after they fled the final damage wasn't significant

and the British were able to occupy and fortify the position, renaming it Fort Ticonderoga.

Serving as a Captain in the Provincial Army at the time, James Barrett was present during

this period of British military success.

Many of these prior conflicts, including the earlier capture of Louisbourg all came into

play following a three-month siege that led to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in

September of 1759.

This significant confrontation is said to have taken less than an hour, the results

of which were an overwhelming British victory.

Notably, both of the opposing armies' commanders, James Wolfe on the British side, and Louis-Joseph

de Montcalm on the French side, died from wounds incurred during the fighting.

Within the following days the city of Quebec was surrendered to the British.

John Parker was among the soldiers who served in this conflict on the British side, acting

as a sergeant during the battle.

The results of this conflict are thought to have been among the most deciding instances

in determining the victor of this war.

Given the start of the winter season, the fighting subsided for the following months.

These same months would actually represent the concluding portion of Assassin's Creed

Rogue.

At this point, the game tackled an entirely fictionalized stretch of story that first

had Shay confront and kill the invented Assassin Hope while in New York in October of 1759,

and then begin his hunt for Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye, a former Commandant

of the poste de l'Ouest that the game presented as a member of the Assassin brotherhood.

The Templars finally caught up to him in early 1760 and learned from him the location of

Liam and Achilles.

Ultimately, this led to an invented final confrontation in March of 1760, after sailing

to the Arctic, in which the Templars and Assassins fought, accidently triggering an earthquake

by touching the piece of Eden.

In the end, Liam died from his injuries, and Shay convinced Haytham to spare Achilles,

which he did but only after crippling him.

As the final portion of Shay's story within this timeframe, he was given the years-long

task of tracking down the Precursor box the Templars had lost.

Historically, in April of 1760 the Chevalier de Lévis, successor to Montcalm led his army

back to Quebec and faced off against the British defenders under James Murray.

After a bloody day of fighting during the Battle of Sainte-Foy, the British were overwhelmed

by the French advance and retreated back into Quebec city.

Although the Chevalier de Lévis laid siege to the city, he was unable to take it and

waited for reinforcements and supplies from France.

Unfortunately, these efforts were thwarted during the Battle of Restigouche in which

the British completely halted any relief efforts heading to the troops in New France.

Without any support, and with additional British troops arriving instead, the Chevalier de

Lévis was forced to lift his siege and return to Montreal.

By September of 1760, with British forces under General Amherst closing in on Montreal,

and with no relief in sight, the French negotiated their surrender in a deal which would permit

their citizens to maintain their colonial residence and their right to practice their

religion, to which the British agreed.

It is said that Israel Putnam was one of the many soldiers who marched onto Montreal in

this final stage of the North American conflict.

Although this technically marked the end of the French and Indian War in 1760, hostilities

continued in the form of minor isolated skirmishes that were often silenced by the British, until

the February 10th, 1763 signing of the Treaty of Paris, which signalled the official end

to the conflict in tandem with the end of the Seven Years' War.

It would have been within this interval of time, following the surrender of Montreal

in late 1760 that the young Ratonhnhaké:ton's village was burned down in November.

In the game, this was presented as the doing of George Washington, who ordered his troops

to destroy the village in an attempt to halt any further attacks from regional Native American

tribes.

Although I had trouble finding a historical equivalent to this event, it definitely paralleled

Washington's later actions during the American Revolution, and was perhaps representative

of certain extreme measures used by the British in this immediate post-war period when quelling

rebellions that oppose their victory.

For the Post-game history, I'll just quickly go over the concluding circumstances of this

conflict.

In terms of the major results of the War within the North American colonies specifically,

France essentially surrendered the vast majority of its regional colonial holdings, with the

British acquiring French Canada and Acadia alongside Spanish Florida, while the Spanish

were given French Louisiana in turn.

Now that we've reached the conclusion of this sizeable event, I feel comfortable with

moving on to the final chapter of the video.

In this portion, we'll review everything that's been learned today and compare its

depiction in the games to the actual history.

To start, I'm just briefly going to go over the entirely fictionalized portions of the

games during the French and Indian War.

Clearly, chief among these fabrications, as always, is the Assassin vs Templar battle

that formulates the protagonists' narratives during their hunt for precursor artifacts.

Next was the attack on Albany, led by the fictional assassin Kesegowaase, which never

historically occurred.

Lastly, and I suppose this does tie into my first point, Assassin's Creed Rogue's

ending, from Shay's hunt for Hope all the way to Haytham sparring Achilles, and all

the confrontations therein, was essentially fictionalized.

Having cleared up those imagined segments of the game, we'll now go over the real

historical events that Ubisoft either manipulated or embellished, as a way of accommodating

their Assassin's Creed plot.

Although I won't get too into detail about how various individuals weren't actually

assassinated, but rather died from different causes, as that will be saved for their respective

videos at a later date, I will momentarily touch on a few of these cases in this summary.

For that reason, the first point I want to touch on was Shay's mission to kill Lawrence

Washington.

Despite actually genuinely dying around that time from tuberculosis, the element I personally

liked more about this encounter was how the game presented a connection between Lawrence,

Samuel and James as members of the Templar Order, which paralleled their actual connection

as business associates within the Ohio Company of Virginia.

The next element I find worth discussing is the presence of Haytham's allies within

the colonies.

Even though there isn't much question as to Lee, Church and Johnson being in the region,

the game seems to have taken the side of certain sources which state that Hickey and Pitcairn

would have also been near Boston at that time, a fact that is contradicted by certain other

resources that only claim they reached the colonies later.

Admittedly, due to the limited records on both individuals, this isn't necessarily

an incorrect point, but rather just one to take with a grain of salt since there are

contradictory interpretations on their arrival dates.

In succession to this idea, I'll also quickly re-iterate that notwithstanding the fact that

there was an earthquake in Lisbon on November 1st, 1755, it clearly wasn't caused by a

piece of Eden.

Anyways, the following historical tweak occurred during the surrender of Fort William Henry,

where the game took liberties by crediting the native attack on the plans of the assassin

Kesegowaase who sought to kill George Monro, when in reality the reason for committing

this massacre remains a debated topic to this day.

Also, just before I reach my last anecdote, I'd like to quickly mention that the naval

battle depicted in the game as a prelude to the siege of Louisbourg was overall an exaggeration,

as the French did not launch a pre-emptive strike which was almost single-handedly dealt

with by one vessel.

In fact, they were significantly outnumbered by the British which meant that the French

generally maintained a defensive position throughout that conflict.

Lastly, the final point worth discussing when considering alterations to the history by

the games was George Washington's role in the destruction of Ratonhnhaké:ton's village

during the French and Indian War.

Whereas there are records of Washington's involvement in such attacks later in his life,

I couldn't find a definitive source that stated he committed these acts during the

French and Indian War, although this wasn't an uncommon occurrence during the period,

and Washington did come to be known by the Iroquois as the "Town Destroyer", although

some attribute this more to his familial ties to John Washington, who was given the same

name years earlier.

Keeping all of that information in mind, we can now take a moment and contemplate whether

the French and Indian war was fairly depicted mainly between Assassin's Creed Rogue and

Assassin's Creed 3.

In general, I would personally say that this conflict was well demonstrated in the games,

however there are definitely a few aspects I'd like to quick go over.

My main grievance, and again this is my personal opinion, is tied to the fact that despite

the choice to essentially have the Assassins on the side of the French and the Templars

on the side of the British this only came into play in a couple instances within the

story in terms of the battles and events depicted.

Furthermore, and I realize I'm nitpicking, it was also odd to see Adewale back but this

time supporting the French war effort, especially when taking into consideration the events

of Freedom Cry.

Nevertheless, outside of these minor complaints I truly appreciated the attention to detail

which was utilized when portraying certain developments in the war.

In particular, among those that stuck out for me were the Albany Congress, where we

got to see Benjamin Franklin proposing his Plan of the Union which was seen as too extreme

at the time, but would prove to be a foundational concept behind the later Articles of Confederation.

Another such occurrence was during the Braddock Expedition where, even with the game's alterations,

much of the actual history behind the failed British attack was fairly demonstrated, down

to the General's disinclination to resolving things peacefully before the fighting began.

Overall, although the games' stories only occasionally intersected with a few of the

French and Indian War's major events, when they did so, it was traditionally with an

appreciated attention to detail, and for that reason I did enjoy getting to play through

this influential historical period that would be integral in setting the stage for the later

American Revolutionary War.

Having said that, we have reached the end of today's video.

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our other episodes.

I've just passed the half-way mark on covering the time periods of the franchise's main

titles, and although I intend on finishing this process before tackling other subjects,

please still feel free to leave me your topic requests for future videos in the comments.

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