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.

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.

Cher Obediah, 2017 It is known that, while she was in London, Pocahontas met Captain John Smith, at one time president of the council for the James Fort colony, and expressed her displeasure with ...

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 ...