Q: According to John Smith's account of the famous event ... Q: But in the midst of this warfare, Smith records that Pocahontas actually acts to save his life, is that right?

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today ...

The real-life John Smith was documented as one of the ... was spawned from a terrifying incident. In the movie, Pocahontas saves Smith as her final act of love. However, researchers know that ...

What did she look like as an adolescent, when John Smith ... Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save ...

John Smith, whose veracity of detail ... to smash it with their war clubs, when Pocahontas took it "in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death." Many historians doubt Smith's ...

The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith. In December 1607 ... head in her arms and laid her own upon his to save him from death.

In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere), Pocahontas is shown to be involved romantically with an Englishman called Captain John Smith. He was real, but not her boyfriend.