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      • One of these colonists was a man named Captain John Smith. Though Smith is portrayed as Pocahontas’s love interest in the famous Disney movie, there’s no evidence of any real-life romance between the two of them. In fact, Pocahontas was just 11 years old when she met him.
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  2. Nov 12, 2009 · Learn about the English soldier and explorer who founded Jamestown and claimed to be saved by Pocahontas, a Native American woman. Explore his military exploits, colonial leadership and writings about his adventures.

  3. Captain John Smith and Pocahontas is a 1953 American historical western film directed by Lew Landers. The distributor was United Artists. It stars Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance and Alan Hale. While most scenes were filmed in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains region, exteriors were shot around Bronson Canyon.

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · (1580-1631) Who Was John Smith? English soldier John Smith eventually made his way to America to help govern the British colony of Jamestown. After allegedly being saved from death by...

  5. Feb 20, 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 ...

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  6. 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.

  7. Apr 3, 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.

  8. Jun 17, 2024 · John Smith, English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America. He played an equally important role as a cartographer and a writer who vividly depicted the natural abundance of the New World, encouraging prospective English settlers.