The Mayflower Compact was a short document that the Pilgrims (the first English settlers) wrote when they ended up landing in Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, instead of landing in northern Virginia, as planned. When they realized they were out of Virginia's jurisdiction, cut off from any government, they created the Mayflower Compact, a set of temporary rules to reaffirm their loyalty to the British Crown and the Christian faith, establish a civil body for their “better ordering and preservation” and to make “just and equal” decisions for the common good of the colony. The document indeed established a model for political self-government to prevent conflicts among the men and to make rules for the general good of the people.
He refused to be commander of the Paris garrison. It was an offered to him by Robespierre but
he decline the offer because he felt there was danger to accepting it. Rather he
took a secret mission to Genoa and when he came back, Robespierre was eliminated
and he was arrested but released on the grounds of lack of evidence.
During World War II the British had mobilized India’s resources for the imperial war effort. They crushed the attempt of Mahatma Gandhi in the Indian national Congress to force him to quit India in 1942
