User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 02-06-'12 — Assassin's Creed III: Liberation revealed!/@comment-3967387-20120603170920/@comment-1888015-20120603171530

It starts not long after the French and Indian War.

I mean, you said it yourself, the game starts in 1765, 2 years after the war ended in 1763.

Not that hard to piece that together.