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Nov 12, 2009 · English soldier and explorer Captain John Smith was born in Lincolnshire and had an adventurous life as a soldier, pirate, enslaved person, colonist and author—though many historians question...
Apr 2, 2014 · Best Known For: John Smith was a British soldier who was a founder of the American colony of Jamestown in the early 1600s. Death Year: 1631. Death date: June 21, 1631. Death City: London,...
Feb 20, 2024 · John Smith claimed Pocahontas saved him from execution when she was just 11 or 12 years old. Whether the story happened the way Smith tells it—or even at all—is up for debate, a 2017...
Apr 3, 2014 · Pocahontas was primarily linked to the English colonists through Captain Smith, who arrived in Virginia with more than 100 other settlers in April 1607. The Englishmen had numerous encounters...
Feb 29, 2024 · John Smith, English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America. He played an equally important role as a cartographer and a writer who vividly depicted the natural abundance of the New World, encouraging prospective English settlers.
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Captain John Smith statue at Historic Jamestowne. Sarah J Stebbins. The most famous event of Pocahontas' life, her rescue of Captain John Smith, did not happen the way he wrote it. Smith was exploring when he encountered a Powhatan hunting party. A fight ensued, and Smith was captured by Opechancanough.
In A True Relation of Virginia (1608), the English explorer John Smith described meeting Pocahontas in the spring of 1608 when she was "a child of ten years old". [6] . In a 1616 letter, Smith again described her as she was in 1608, but this time as "a child of twelve or thirteen years of age." [7]