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20 de feb. de 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 ...
12 de mar. de 2019 · Captain John Smith said her “wit, and spirit” made her stand out. Smith first met Pocahontas when he was captured a few weeks after the first colonists’ arrival in the area.
Pocahontas is most famously linked to colonist John Smith, who arrived in Virginia with 100 other settlers in April 1607. The colonists built a fort on a marshy peninsula on the James River , and had numerous encounters over the next several months with the people of Tsenacommacah – some of them friendly, some hostile.
Top among them is her rescue of Capt. John Smith from execution, romanticized in eternal stone relief in the U.S. Capitol. Their celebrated love affair probably never happened, either.
3 de abr. de 2014 · Pocahontas is remembered as the Powhatan Native American woman who saved the life of Englishman John Smith and married John Rolfe. Learn more at Biography.com.
The founding of the Jamestown colony in 1607 brought Captain John Smith to the chief’s attention; the political relationship developed between Smith and Washunsenaca saved the struggling colony. Smith’s departure to England in 1609 for medical needs marked the end of most Powhatan-Jamestown communication until 1613.
The only life portrait of Pocahontas (1595–1617) and the only credible image of her, was engraved by Simon Van de Passe in 1616 while she was in England, and was published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia in 1624.
