User blog comment:Gabriel Auditore/Open your eyes.../@comment-5229727-20120614131405/@comment-3276576-20120614164549

We discussed this on the Ubi forums and came to the conclusion, that all of these are in fact redcoats. A member of the British army in the same uniform appears in the Frontier gameplay demo, running away from Connor and trying to alarm the other Redcoats in the fort..