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Floundering from two years of warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers, the Virginia Company was about to collapse. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609--the largest fleet England had ever assembled--and sailed into the teeth of a storm.... The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the...

A biography of the Powhatan Indian woman who befriended the English settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, and helped maintain peace between her tribe and the colonists.

Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...

A brief biography that highlights some important events in the life of the woman who helped to bring about peace and friendship between English settlers in Virginia and the native Powhatan people.

A biography of Captain John Smith, the sixteenth-century explorer best known for sailing from England to America in 1607 where he and his passengers built Jamestown, the first English settlement in the New World.