On April 26, 1607, Capt. John Smith landed at Cape Henry, Va., with the colonists who would establish the first permanent settlement in America. In 1785 ornithologist and artist John James Audubon ...

The 17th-century colony where Pocahontas met John Smith. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jamestown, founded in 1607 ...

John Smith was an English explorer ... On one such expedition in December 1607, Smith and his party were ambushed on the Chickahominy River by a large Powhatan hunting party.

On this day in 1608, John Smith, an English explorer ... the de facto leader of the colony during the difficult winter of 1607 during which the colony suffered from disease, starvation and ...

The tale of Capt. John Smith’s rescue by Pocahontas in December 1607 is based entirely on two references in Smith’s 1624 book, which describes the girl cradling his head and begging her father ...

The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith. In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, ...