Q: According to John Smith's account of the ... The 1907 World's Fair held in Norfolk, Virginia celebrated the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. Like many depictions, this logo ...

The English settlement of Jamestown was important for the future ... by a council that included the legendary military captain John Smith and was headed by Edward Maria Wingfield.

in what is now Virginia. Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and ...

The Virginia Company of London was desperate to ... According to Captain John Smith, some finally resorted to cannabilism. One man even killed his wife in order to fill his stomach.

In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, Capt. John Smith was captured by a relative of Powhatan, the leader of a chiefdom based in what is now eastern ...