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 The General History Of Virginia





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Pocahontas (1565 - 1617) She was thirteen when she met Smith. She converted to Christianity and married John Rolfe, a Jamestown settler, in 1614. She traveled to England and gave birth to a son, Thomas Rolfe, but she died while returning to Virginia. Her son went to school in England and went to Virginia in 1640.

While Captain John Smith and his men are on an expedition, they are attacked by three hundred Indians with bows and arrows. The Indians kill Smith's men but spare his life after he gives them his compass, which amused them. When Powhatan, the Indian leader with more than two hundred men, decides to have Smith killed, Powhatan's favorite daughter, Pocahontas, saves the prisoner.

John Smith He was baptized in Lincolnshire, England, on January 9, 1580. After some schooling, he worked for a time as a merchant's apprentice and then became a soldier. As an enlisted man, he adventured throughout Europe and visited North Africa; he was even once captured and sold into slavery but escaped and returned to London. In May 1607, Smith landed in the New World to help found the Jamestown, Virginia, colony as part of the Virginia Company's first expedition there. Initially denied leadership of the colony, Smith gained the esteem of his fellow colonists by developing strategic friendships with the indigenous peoples—most famously with Pocahontas.

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