Edward Hoffmann is a jaeger that serves the Hesse-Kassel Riflemen Company. Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Hanau are British-German states that fight under the allegiance of the United Kingdom.

It is 1781, Yorktown, Virginia. The French-American alliance is storming the town of Yorktown with naval and infantry force, American and French. Edward is one of the many British soldiers defending the city. You are one of the soldiers in the Franco-American Alliance. You can be French or an American. The British lost the city, and now the only choice left for Britain is to sail back home. Hoffmann is a Rifleman, as I said. He was sniping American-French soldiers from the Church Tower with the Tower Carpet Rifle. He kidnapped you and brought you to to the tower.