USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Already prone to fits of insanity, Otis was struck on the head during an altercation with a crown officer in 1769 and was rendered harmlessly insane, with only occasional lucid intervals, until his death. He died in 1783 after being struck by lightning.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the 1760s, Otis led the intellectual attack against British tyranny, composing ringing defenses of liberty that won Americans to the revolutionary cause and helped to inspire the well-known slogan, “No taxation without representation.”

Detailed explanation-3: -On May 23, 1783, he stepped out of his friend’s house to watch a thunderstorm-and was killed by a lightning bolt. Otis was “as extraordinary in death as in life, ” John Adams wrote upon hearing the news.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Patriots constructed a narrative to explain this: Otis was so detested and feared by Crown appointees that in 1769 they lured him into the British Coffee-House and assaulted him with canes, causing a brain injury that affected his mental stability.