The real-life John Smith was documented as one of the settlers to Virginia who was befriended by Pocahontas. She reportedly went to their settlement before the conflict and helped bring food to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

She retains the chaste, high-necked Jacobian costume of the engraving (which may have covered the real ... John Smith. Most historians doubt that a full-fledged romance ever existed between ...

The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves English adventurer John Smith from execution when British relations with the "savages" in the New World turned sour.

The famous scene in which "Pocahontas" intervenes when her father goes to kill "John Smith" was not real. Both the Englishman and her did exist and met, although she was 12 years old. Her name was ...

A Walt Disney animated film series based on a real historic ... American woman Pocahontas, and features a fictionalized account of her encounter with Englishman John Smith and the settlers that ...