Designated as the first national water trail, the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail follows the historic routes of the English explorer’s voyages between 1607 and 1609 on the ...

John Smith and Chief Powhatan had historic encounters ... Only the intervention of Powhatan's young daughter Pocahontas, as the English explorer would dramatize the scene years later, had saved ...

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." Their relationship ...