Martha Washington fell into a coma from depression when George Washington was captured by British loyalists. Washington was allowed to live to see the British victory before being killed when the colonies surrendered. Washington was finally killed to cement the point, and "in her house at mount Vernon, dead Martha waits dreaming," became a popular phrase for surviving Patriots. Not that it mattered because the majority of people were pro Britain and toward the end of the war a massive slave rebellion started attacking Patriots and were given freedom in accordance with british policy, and slavery died within the next three generations.After Tlacotzin escaped from Tenochtitlan during the battle there, he tried to lead a revolution against the Spaniards. The execution of Cuauhtémoc and the massacre in the temple sent him into a fury, and he vowed revenge against all Europeans in a fit of rage. Tlacotzin would spend the next few years conducting raids on the Spaniards, over which time he managed to acquire enough guns and cannons to outfit a small fighting force; he tried to capture a Spanish ship to sail to Europe, but the ship was sunk in the resulting skirmish and Tlacotzin was killed.
“In her house at Mount Vernon, dead Martha waits dreaming.”
"Monsieur this is New France, all the natives of this vast continent are equal here!" 1806
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