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= John Smith =



Captain **John Smith** (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer , and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Virginia Indian girl Pocahonta s during an altercation with the Powhatan Confederacy and her father, Chief Powhatan He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.

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= Pocahontas =

= = = The Capture Of John Smith =
 * Pocahontas** (c. 1595 – March 21, 1617), later known as **Rebecca Rolfe**, was a Virginia Indian chief's daughter notable for having assisted colonial settlers at <span class="wiki_link_ext">Jamestown . She converted to <span class="wiki_link_ext">Christianity and married the <span class="wiki_link_ext">English settler <span class="wiki_link_ext">John Rolfe . After they traveled to London, she became famous in the last year of her life. She was a daughter of <span class="wiki_link_ext">Wahunsunacawh, better known as Chief or Emperor <span class="wiki_link_ext">Powhatan (to indicate his primacy), who headed a network of <span class="wiki_link_ext">tributary tribal nations in the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Tidewater region of Virginia (called //<span class="wiki_link_ext">Tenakomakah // by the Powhatan). These tribes made up what is known as the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Powhatan Chiefdom and spoke a language of the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Algonquian family.

Captain John Smith is innocently exploring the new land, when he is taken captive by the great Indian chief Powhatan. He is positioned on the ground, with his head on a stone, and Indian warriors are posed to club Smith to death. Suddenly, Powhatan's daughter appears, throws herself on Smith, and positions her head above his. Powhatan relents, and allows Smith to go on his way. Pocahontas, the young daughter, becomes a fast friend of Smith and the colonists, helping the English colony in Tidewater Virginia to survive in its fragile early years.

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=__**John Smiths Departure Back To England**__=

John smith had to leave and go back to England due to the fact that a keg of gunpowder detonated between his legs and injuring him badly. Pocahontas was told that he was dead, not that he was sent back to England. Thus Pocahontas married John Rolfe

=__Death Of Pocahontas__= In March 1617, Rolfe and Pocahontas boarded a ship to return to Virginia, however, the ship had only gone as far as Gravesend on the River Thames when Pocahontas became gravely ill. She was taken ashore and died. It is unknown what caused her death, but theories range from smallpox, pneumonia, or tuberculosis, to her having been poisoned.