User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 02-03-'12 — Leaked AC3 info!/@comment-83.71.7.144-20120304094938/@comment-4043223-20120304100521

Also, his father is said to be British, this doesn't necessarily mean England. His father could be Scottish, Welsh etc for all we know and may even have been a redcoat soldier. It's a little known fact but many Irish fought for the commonwealth army back then simply because they had no choice in the matter. It was either that or starve to death, go to a workhouse or become a land tenant (which was essentially slavery back then). Also, there was a couple of minor famines back in the 1730s onwards, I say minor because the 1840 one was the Great Famine that wiped out several million which is why it is the one we all know more about.