Pocahontas Saving Captain John Smith is a photograph by British Library which was uploaded on June 14th, 2016.
Pocahontas Saving Captain John Smith
Image taken from page 99 of The Pictorial History of the United States of America, from the discovery by the Northmen in the tenth century to the... more
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Pocahontas Saving Captain John Smith
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Image taken from page 99 of "The Pictorial History of the United States of America, from the discovery by the Northmen in the tenth century to the present time. Embellished with engravings from drawings by W. Croome" by John Frost, 1843. Pocahontas saving the life of Captain John Smith. Pocahontas (1595-1617) was an Algonquian Indian remembered for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, the head of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia. She is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him. Captain John Smith (January 1580 - June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was considered to have played a important part in the establishment of the first permanent English settlement in North America. 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. Smith's books and maps are extremely important in the further colonization of the New World. He gave the name New England to that region and encouraged people to migrate. In 1614, Smith returned to the Americas in a voyage to the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts Bay. He made two attempts in 1614 and 1615 to return to the same coast. First a storm dismasted his ship. In the second attempt, he was captured by French pirates off the coast of the Azores. Smith escaped after weeks of captivity and made his way back to England. He died in the year 1631 in London at the age of 51.
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