User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 08-02-'13 — Next game will be all new, plus DLC promotional material/@comment-72.200.170.184-20130217234506

Ubisoft has partnered with French to help them on AC4. It might be set in the French Revolution, which was just a few years after the American Revolution. Maybe Connor goes to France to fight in the war?