User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 19-07-'13 — Assassin's Creed: Brahman announced/@comment-2.29.234.2-20130821120729/@comment-733050-20130821143945

A bit of both probably: I can't imagine the British and French Templars working together. :D And those who object to the idea of them being that petty, well, Project Legacy hints at the rivalry between the French and Italian Templars, and Haytham clearly disliked the notion of a French America.

I imagine the British and some Spanish Templars were pleased that the French and Spanish Empires did not unite, while the other Spanish would have deemed Philip V's renunciation of his right to the French throne as a missed opportunity to build the New World Order.