John Smith's Bold Endeavor. In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith appears as a dashing romantic hero, smitten by the Indian "princess." ...

John Smith's map of Virginia was originally printed in 1612. ... Luckily for Smith, the night of his sentencing, about 100 new settlers from England arrived with food and other reinforcements.

John Smith thought, ... The second point of stress was that the English arrived in Virginia in the midst of a serious, serious drought unlike any that had been seen by generations of Indians.