The tale of Capt. John Smith’s rescue by Pocahontas in December 1607 is based entirely on two references in Smith’s 1624 book, which describes the girl cradling his head and begging her father ...

The son of Pocahontas, Thomas Rolfe lived a somewhat turbulent life caught between two worlds, perhaps beginning with ...

John Smith in 1607 from an execution ordered by her father ... and dying in England in 1617. Pocahontas is shown in various stages of nudity, which was the custom for young Indian girls until ...

The most famous story of Pocahontas centers on her efforts to save Captain John Smith, an English explorer. Smith arrived in Virginia in 1607 along with more than 100 settlers to the New World.

in 1607. Years later, when few firsthand witnesses were around to dispute his version of events, an English colonist named John Smith wrote about how Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of a ...

Pocahontas was an extremely talented and lively 10-year-old girl when Jamestown was founded in 1607. She was the daughter of the Great Powhatan, who ruled over numerous client tribes in the ...

"Pocahontas Revealed" investigates these questions. On May 13, 1607, three English sailing vessels dropped anchor beside a small island in the James River, Virginia. On board were 104 colonists ...

Pocahontas was a nickname of sorts, often translated as “playful one.” The English settled Jamestown in 1607. Relations with the native residents were mixed, with the Powhatans providing food ...

It is from this starting point that she reconstructs the familiar story of Pocahontas. This is it in brief: Capt. John Smith, one of the English settlers who sailed to Virginia in 1607 and founded ...

McAuliffe visited on Tuesday the farm owned by Bob and Lynn Ripley — formerly occupied by Powhatan and his daughter Pocahontas in 1607 when English settlers arrived in Virginia — that could ...

“Pocahontas” pulls from history and legend to recount — sort of — the story of the real-life Native American girl who, in 1607, supposedly saved an English settler, John Smith, after he ...