Who was the princess who saved captin John Smith in Jamestown?

Answer 1

She didn't save Smith.The story we know is not true. Actually the colonist landed in an area of 14,000 Native Americans and in the worse land in the area. Powhatan pretty much left them alone. I think he figured that they would die from the bad water and disease . He was fairly right. Within 6 months there were only 34 men left alive of the 104 who came. It wasn't until after his death that the brother of Powhatan attacked the colony. The story about Smith is also not true. He did NOT save Jamestown. He was only there a very few months and he lied about his contribution to the settlement in a book he wrote several years later. He also made up the story about Pocahontas and she died young so couldn't refute his story. The man who did save Jamestown was the husband of Pocahontas and gave tobacco seeds to the colony. That was John Rolfe.

Answer 2

Captain John Smith gave a romantic account of Powhatan's daughter begging for his life, but it is highly unlikely that Pocahontas ever knew John Smith personally. It is just as unlikely that the story ever happened. In the event a chief like Powhatan moved to execute a captor, that captor would most likely die, regardless of who attempted to intervene.

Answer

Pocahantas would have been about eleven at the time. Some speculate that the ceremony was more of an adoption than anything else. John Smith left the colonies about a year and a half later after an injury. She married someone else in a few years.

Answer 3

Pocahontas