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1580 - 1631Life of Captain John Smith, explorer, soldier, author, and early governor of Jamestown Colony.
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c. 1596 - c. 1604John Smith serves as mercenary for various causes in Europe and the Mediterranean.
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c. 1607Pocahontas meets Captain John Smith at Jamestown.
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1607John Smith is part of the expedition to establish the Jamestown Colony of Virginia.
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1607 - 1609John Smith takes control of the colonists of Jamestown as its governor and befriends Pocahontas.
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1609John Smith injured in gunpowder explosion; returns to England.
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1614John Smith maps and names region of New England.
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1615John Smith taken captive by the French while en route to North America.
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1617John Smith meets Pocahontas again in England.
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1624John Smith publishes his General History of Virginia.
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1631John Smith dies in England of natural causes.