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Captain John Smith John Rolfe
663 wordsThe story of Pocahontas happened the same time as the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in the New World. Her story begins with her first visit to the colony as a child of ten or eleven. The event that captured her fame, was her rescue of Captain John Smith from murder at the hands of her father. She almost single handily saved the Jamestown colonists from starvation and massacre. Pocahontas final act of devotion to the colonists was when she was arranged a visit to Londo...
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1,410 wordsThe feeling and power of love affect every human being on the face on this planet, but it is how each individual handles the various dimensions of this complex emotion that creates a unique situation. The theme of love can be found in the chapter in the New Worlds of Literature text titled "Crossings. " This chapter provides an insight on what happens when two different worlds become intertwined in romance and relationships, specifically the poems "Julia" and "Pocahontas to her English Husband, ...
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John Smith John Rolfe
1,079 wordsIn 1605 the English were just discovering the new country of America, and the Indians were just discovering the "pale face. " The Indians feared the English and the English feared the Indians, so of course a war broke out. Pocahontas single handily forced one of the few eras of peace between the Indians and the hated European colonist. A captain named John Smith and two of his troops were walking through the forest, when all of the sudden arrows shot out of the bushes and killed the two men. Joh...
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Captain John Smith John Rolfe
583 wordsRakesh Patel His 151 2 / 2 / 99 Captain John smith was more important to the success of Virginia by 1630 then John Rolfe... Like many famous heroes, John Smith was feisty, abrasive, self-promoting, and ambitious. He was an experienced soldier and adventurer, the man who boldly went out and got things done. If not for him, the colony may have failed at the start. John Rolfe is best successful for having introduced tobacco as a commercial crop to Virginia colonists. The production of this valuable...
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Rolfe Died John Rolfe Virginia
503 wordsJohn Rolfe stepped into history in May 1609 when he boarded the Sea Venture, bound for Virginia. The Virginia Company, founded by investors, had financed and sponsored the English colony founded at Jamestown in May 1607. The Company expected the colonist to start industrial enterprises in Virginia that would return profits to the Company. The colonists in Virginia tried a number of different enterprises: silk making, glass making, lumber, sassafras, pitch and tar, and soap ashes, with no financi...
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1,609 words&# 9; For Pocahontas &# 9; Biography of Pocahontas &# 9; For more than two centuries since the death of the Indian princess Pocahontas, legends and stories of romance have been imbedded into our minds, but her dramatic life was more important to the creation of a segment of American history than legend. &# 9; Around the year of 1595, Pocahontas was born to chief Powhatan, the powerful chief of a federation of Algonquian Indian tribes who lived in the tidewater region of Virginia. She was but one...
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