User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 02-08-'12 — Official AnvilNext Trailer/@comment-220.255.2.34-20120817102739/@comment-4975789-20120817111321

Umm... He died in 1718 and the game starts in 1753, and there weren't many pirates around during the American Revolution. The golden age of pirating was during the 17th and early 18th centuries.