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.

Every schoolboy was taught the story of Pocahontas and John Smith, and for most people ... because I have come to regard it as an event of real importance in the early history of the United ...

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 ...

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